To mark Earth Hour 2021, Alexander McCall Smith has written a poem, ‘Only One Home’, about Climate Change for environmental charity WWF Scotland. It was published on 27 March – as the world prepared to mark Earth Hour – through the UK national press and will be included in a virtual exhibition, The Great Scottish Canvas, hosted by […]

Alexander McCall Smith CBE has been getting ready to receive the prestigious Edinburgh Award 2020. Impressions of the internationally-admired author’s hands have been cast in clay, pictured, by Leigh Bradley of the Colin Braid Stone Workshop, ready to be carved into stone. The handprints will be gilded and laid outside the City Chambers next to the prints […]

This weekend’s a busy one as we mark the Spring Equinox and International Day of Happiness on Saturday (20 March), and World Poetry Day on Sunday (21 March). It has been a tough year since these dates last came round, a year in which humanity has been united by the challenges of a global pandemic and the urgent […]

Mma Ramotswe talks to Mma Makutsi about mothers and Mother’s Day. It was Mother’s Day, or not quite, but Mother’s Day was just a few days away. At the first tea break that morning in the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Mma Makutsi mentioned to Mma Ramotswe that she had seen a notice in a […]