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Film

SCREEN DEVELOPMENT for ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIES WITH SYNCHRONICITY FILMS

Date Published: 3rd March 2025

Award-winning production company Synchronicity Films (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Mayflies, The Tattooist’s Son: Journey to Auschwitz, The Cry) have optioned the rights for screen development to the internationally popular Isabel Dalhousie novels from best-selling author Sir Alexander McCall Smith. The 15 novels in the series are published in the UK on the Abacus imprint of […]

Turning History into Music

Date Published: 6th September 2022

Alexander McCall Smith’s poetry for The Great Tapestry of Scotland is turning history into music. Alexander selected six panels from The Great Tapestry of Scotland and created a poem for each. Long-time friend and composer Tom Cunningham wrote music and David Lyle arranged them for voice – one superb soloist and a lovely young children’s […]