A much anticipated interview with Alexander McCall Smith was aired on BBC’s The One Show this evening. You can watch it here  (towards the end of the programme, starting at 23mins in). It is short but a real treat! Alexander met with the quite wonderful and hugely respected broadcaster Angela Rippon in the autumn of […]

It is New Year’s Day. This is the loch in front of our house. In the distance, behind the cloud, is Ben Hiant, a holy mountain here in the Western Highlands of Scotland. The waters of the loch are dark and still, providing a perfect mirror for the land encircling them. Everything is doubled: two […]