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Tiny Tales

A Story for October: ‘By Post’ from Tiny Tales

An extract from Tiny Tales, an illustrated short story collection by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by Iain McIntosh.

Talking Tiny Tales and Larry Porker

Date Published: 21st August 2020

Alexander McCall Smith talks about his latest collection of short stories Tiny Tales as the characters wander across our Tiny animation! We hope you enjoy the recording and also the Larry Porker graphic tale below. The book contains short, short stories and 30+ of these perfectly conceived strips.

Alexander McCall Smith Joins the Line-up for the FT Weekend Festival

Date: 4 September 2020
Venue: Online - https://ftweekend.live.ft.com/agenda/session/314460
Time: 2.10 pm

Join Alexander McCall Smith and Alice Fishburn as they talk Tiny Tales at the FT Weekend online Festival.

A Story for August – Pope Ron

The first adventure of Pope Ron An extract from Tiny Tales: Pope Ron, the first Australian pope, came from a small town south of Perth. His father, Bill Stokes, was an agricultural machinery salesman; his mother, Sandra, gave music lessons at the local high school. Ron, who had been an enthusiastic altar-boy, had nursed an […]

Alexander McCall Smith on Reaction – LIVE online event

Date: 6 August 2020
Venue: https://reaction.life/events/
Time: 6.00pm UK

An opportunity to hear Alexander online in discussion with leading journalist and commentator Iain Martin (who was editor at the Scotsman newspaper when Scotland Street first started).

Alexander McCall Smith – On Why Creating Tiny Tales has Brought Him Such Joy

Date Published: 30th July 2020

Alexander McCall Smith and his great friend, the illustrator Iain McIntosh have together created something new, surprising, gloriously fun-filled –  short fiction strips a little like satirical cartoon strips. Here he explains the joy this work has brought to both of them. The Tiny Tales strips will appear in book form along with short, short […]

Tiny Tales of Delight – Available Now in the Financial Times

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 […]