Date Published: 28th March 2020

This week, in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine, a six page feature heralds the arrival of a new story-telling diversion from Alexander McCall Smith and our favourite illustrator, Iain McIntosh. Together they have explored the sketch-story in cartoon strip format and created tiny capsules of tales, an amuse-bouche of delight for readers. These little universes and the joyous characters therein will appear in the paper for the next 9 weekends and will be published in book form in August.

The tone will be upbeat, because, quite frankly, have any of us any desire to wallow in the sombre side of life at present? We must continue to be able to smile, even when things are dire.  – Alexander McCall Smith, March 2020