Readers attending Alexander’s events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as well as those who attended events earlier in the year in Dubai and Australia have been much taken with a poem he read, The Language of Pilots. This poem which is now included in Emirates Literature Festival’s 10th Anniversary book, For the Love of Words […]

An Edinburgh International Book Festival report: Alexander McCall Smith took part in FIVE hugely successful events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, 2018, as well as having a show running on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a one off concert with the Really Terrible Orchestra. Every event was packed out. At the Edinburgh International […]

The fifth series of 44 Scotland Street, written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith, airs on BBC Radio 4 every day this week. Catch it at 10.45am every morning or listen to the omnibus at 1.00pm on Saturday.