Announcing an exclusive short collection from Alexander McCall Smith, to celebrate 15 years of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency! In this delicious short collection to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the international phenomenon The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith’s wise, generous heroine finds that dieting is not for everyone and sometimes it […]

The latest novel in the bestselling Scotland Street series is published in paperback today! You can read the first chapter here or for a brief summary, read on . . . Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in […]

Alexander McCall Smith today announced the launch of an ambitious and exciting project to stitch the entire story of Scotland from pre-history to modern times. The Great Tapestry of Scotland is the brainchild of the author, and together with historian Alistair Moffat, and with the artistic talents of Andrew Crummy, (not to mention stitchers from all over […]

Starting this Monday 30th April, and running all week until Friday4th May, BBC Radio 4 have been dramatising Alexander McCall Smith’s first book in the Scotland Street series, 44 Scotland Street. The play stars Carol Ann Crawford as Domenica, James Mackenzie as Bruce and Euan Lee as Bertie, and runs in five 15-minute slots, broadcast each morning at 10:45am. If you’ve […]

The arrival of a new No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency book is always reason to celebrate – and with the paperback of The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party released on the same day, then there’s double the reason to be excited . . . To find out more about the new novel click here, but here’s Alexander McCall Smith’s own summary of what lies […]

We’re excited to announce that the new title in the Botswana series, The Limpopo Academy for Private Detection, will mark the launch of a brand new cover style for the whole series. Published alongside the paperback edition of The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party on the 29th March, both books feature a new illustrative style, […]

Summer draws to a close, and Autumn is nearly upon us – it must be time to catch up on the latest events in the life of our favourite philosopher and private investigator, Isabel Dalhousie. And she’s got a whole new look for the new season . . .   In The Charming Quirks of Others  – which is […]