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News

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!) […]

Alexander McCall Smith celebrates Edinburgh’s 900th anniversary in verse

Date Published: 4th July 2024

The newly knighted creator of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series marked the end of a joyous week of celebrations by presenting a poem to King Charles at a reception at Edinburgh Castle yesterday, celebrating the 900th anniversary of Scotland’s capital city. The poem appears in The Times online today and in paper. The […]

Events

Alexander McCall Smith at Alnwick Story Fest, UK

Date: 1 March 2025

Venue: Alnwick Playhouse

Time: 7.00pm

Join Sir Alexander McCall Smith, one of the world’s most beloved authors, for a delightful session at Alnwick Story Fest. Best known for The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty million copies worldwide, McCall Smith’s work spans more than 100 books, from popular children’s stories to bestselling novels infused with wit, warmth, […]

Alexander McCall Smith at Oxford Literary Festival, UK

Date: 4 April 2025

Venue: Sheldonian Theatre

Time: 4.00pm

Join one of the world’s favourite storytellers, Alexander McCall Smith, to be transported to a small dating agency in Edinburgh’s New Town, the setting for the latest novel in his new Perfect Passion Company series, Looking for You, to Germany to meet the hilarious Professor Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld and finally to Botswana to catch up […]

Alexander McCall Smith at Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, UK

Date: 22 May 2025

Venue: Venue 3

Time: 7.00pm

Spend a lively evening in the company of Alexander McCall Smith as he introduces the latest instalment of his series The Perfect Passion Company. In Looking For You, Katie Donald is eager to continue helping the lovelorn find connection, and with news of her expertise spreading, she’s inundated with people seeking her advice. Alexander will […]