News & Events - Alexander McCall Smith

News

Empathy in Education

Date Published: 6th March 2025

On the eve of World Book Day 2025 Sir Alexander McCall Smith spoke at a special event at Fettes School exploring empathy in education. Taking place in the Fettes theatre and live streamed to members of the school community, this fascinating, and very current, conversation was both uplifting and inspirational. In a conversation with Charlie […]

Date Published: 22nd January 2025

Earlier this month Alexander joined a very special group of readers for a one-of-a-kind afternoon tea at Bertie’s favourite deli, Valvona & Crolla. The group of readers had helped to crowdfund the relocation of The Edinburgh Bookshop, one of Alexander’s favourite independent Edinburgh book shops. Alexander, together with bookshop owner Marie Moser, thanked the readers […]

Friends we Share – a birthday post

Date Published: 24th August 2024

Friends: This picture was taken by my daughter, Lucy, and she has now put it on a birthday card. It shows me with the antenna for the radio I have at our house in the Highlands of Scotland. I fire it up from time to time (I am a licensed radio operator, as it happens!) […]

Events

Alexander McCall Smith at Braemar Literary Festival (UK)

Date: 27 September 2025

Venue: St Margaret's, Braemar

Time: 12.00pm

Sir Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific, uplifting and best-loved authors. He became a household name with the publication of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and writes stand-alone novels, short stories, best-selling poetry, and children’s books as well as libretti, stage and screen scripts. His ‘44 Scotland Street’ […]

Alexander McCall Smith at Bridport Literary Festival (UK)

Date: 23 October 2025

Venue: Electric Palace Theatre, Bridport

Time: 7.00pm

Bridport Literary Festival is thrilled to welcome worldwide best-selling author, Alexander McCall Smith, who will be joining us again for a special event in anticipation of this year’s BridLit Festival. He will be in conversation with much loved author Nikki May, in an event which promises to be an evening of sheer delight. The master storyteller […]

An afternoon with Alexander McCall Smith in Wimborne (UK)

Date: 24 October 2025

Venue: Allendale Centre, Wimborne

Time: 3.45pm

Join worldwide best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith for an afternoon of sheer delight! The master storyteller will entertain you with tales from the latest 44 Scotland Street novel, Bertie’s Theory of Ice Cream, and discuss In the Time of Five Pumpkins, the new novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. An event not to be […]