WIN In A Distant View of Everything, Isabel Dalhousie finds herself drawn into the problems of the customers at her niece Cat’s delicatessen. A problem shared, however, is not always a problem solved and misunderstandings and neurotic fantasies abound.  Some things, however, are better shared, so to celebrate publication of A Distant View of Everything in […]

A very good reason to celebrate: 2018 is the twentieth anniversary of publication of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith—20 years of delightfully different books, page-after-page of humanity, kindness, humour and forgiveness, and in short, sheer joy. The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series started life as a short story written for friends […]

Listen in to the ABC Conversation live interview with Alexander McCall Smith on his recent trip to Australia. The recording is a joyful 52 minutes long – the perfect gift to you on International Happiness Day. Listen now. From the ABC Website: Alexander is one of the world’s most prolific writers, having published more than 80 […]

Australian response: Alexander would like to thank all of his readers who came out to meet him on his visit to Dubai for the Emirates Festival and his tour of Australia this month (March 2018), both of which he enjoyed very much indeed. He is very fond of the people of Australia and the land […]

Readers attending Alexander’s events in Dubai and Australia have been taken with a poem he has read, The Language of Pilots. This poem which is now included in Emirates Literature Festival’s 10th Anniversary book, For the Love of Words but we can also reproduce it for you here.   The language of pilots By Alexander McCall […]