Phil Miller, The Herald’s arts correspondent attended the first of Alexander’s three events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night. You can read his review here. The best selling Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith has defended his “positive” books which he says have been accused of being Utopian. In an uncharacteristically passionate defence of […]

Find out in the Observer’s Best Holiday Reads as Alexander selects his books to pack for Summer reading.

succeeds in subtly, almost imperceptibly ripping up the traditional rules of the romantic comedy — Yorkshire Post Don’t miss My Italian Bulldozer, Alexander’s new, funny and very moving stand-alone novel which is attracting some lovely press attention. So far he has been interviewed in the UK for: BBC Breakfast Television BBC Radio Manchester BBC Radio Nottingham BBC Radio […]

A new short story by Alexander is published in the July issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, out 1 June 2016. ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good Cooks’ is a delightful tale of disaster in the kitchen when a couple invite a world renowned chef to dinner. Very funny and uplifting. Afterall, it could happen to […]

Alexander McCall Smith’s Scotland Street is back as a radio drama on BBC Radio 4. Every morning this week at 10.45am you can catch-up with Bertie, Irene, Bruce and all the regular faces from that popular street in Edinburgh’s New Town. An omnibus is available on Sunday and you can catch every episode on iPlayer. The […]

The Scotsman newspaper is delighted to welcome the characters of Scotland Street back onto the pages of the paper for the next three months. Alexander McCall Smith is writing an episode a day of the serial to appear in the paper before being published in book format in the UK in August of this year […]

Good Dog Lion by Alexander McCall Smith has been chosen for the Reading Agency’s  Summer Reading Challenge 2016. From the Reading Agency website today: We’re delighted to announce this year’s book collection for The Big Friendly Read, Summer Reading Challenge 2016. There are two lists—one for younger children and one for older children—comprising 72 titles in […]

44 Scotland Street returns to the Scotsman newspaper on 29 February 2016. This new series will appear in daily episodes for 3 months and each episode will be available on their website for 48 hours from publication. The series will be available in book form as The Bertie Project from August 2016. The characters of […]

Hilary Clinton has revealed that she switches off from the stresses of the election trail by reading the latest instalment of Alexander McCall Smith’s No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency book.