Festival

Hay-on-Wye: A UK festival at its best, basking in sunshine

Date Published: 31st May 2023

Alexander McCall Smith delighted more than 1500 readers at his UK event this week at Hay Festival on the Welsh / English border, in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Lang (much missed from the BBC’s Front Row). The sun shone down, and as the crowds gathered, ripples of conversation, laughter and applause escaping from […]

Ahoy There! Alexander is on the High Seas

Date Published: 5th December 2022

Where is Alexander this week? On the high seas between New York City and Southampton in England on the stunning Cunard ship, ‘Queen Mary 2’. He is crossing the ocean as part of The Times/Cheltenham Festival on the Waves. He reports that all is going well on the voyage and he is delighted to spend […]

Alexander McCall Smith at Yeovil Literary Festival (UK)

Date: 10 October 2022
Venue: Westlands Main Hall, Yeovil, Westbourne Cl, Yeovil BA20 2DD
Time: 2:00pm

Date: 10 October 2022 Venue: Westlands Main Hall, Yeovil, Westbourne Cl, Yeovil BA20 2DD Time: 2:00pm THIS IS A YEOVIL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2022 EVENT WESTLANDS ENTERTAINMENT VENUE | Ballroom Alexander McCall Smith (or Sandy as he is often known) is a true legend in the literary word. He has written and contributed to over a hundred […]

Edinburgh International Book Festival (Event 4 of 4) (UK)

Date: 20 August 2017
Venue: Baillie Gifford Main Theatre
Time: 18.45

Join Alexander at one of four events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (event 4 of 4), 2017. How best to tell the story of Scotland’s history? A good way would be to do what Historic Environment Scotland have done – assemble five of our finest authors to write about the 25 buildings that have shaped […]

Edinburgh International Book Festival (Event 3 of 4) (UK)

Date: 19 August 2017
Venue: Baillie Gifford Main Theatre
Time: 17.00

Join Alexander at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (event 3 of 4). Bliss on Colonsay, plastic surgery in Edinburgh, strange encounters in Botswana, and pirates in the Caribbean have all contributed to Alexander McCall Smith receiving the Medal of Honour for Achievements in Literature from the Arts Club of New York – encounter them all […]

Edinburgh International Book Festival (Event 2 of 4) (UK)

Date: 17 August 2017
Venue: Baillie Gifford Main Theatre
Time: 18.45

Join Alexander on home ground at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (event 2 of 4). An hour of mischief, music and laughter as the prolific Alexander McCall Smith discusses the latest happenings of all our favourite characters—Mma Ramotswe, Isabel Dalhousie, the inhabitants of Scotland Street and the delightful, intelligent and appealing characters from his standalone […]

Edinburgh International Book Festival (Event 1 of 4) (UK)

Date: 15 August 2017
Venue: Baillie Gifford Main Theatre
Time: 13.30

Join Alexander McCall Smith on home ground at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (event 1 of 4). As well as being one of world’s bestselling and best-loved writers (he just won Medal of Honour for Achievements in Literature from the Arts Club of New York), Alexander McCall Smith has one of the most infectious giggles […]