News & Events - Alexander McCall Smith

News

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 […]

Knighted – Arise Sir Sandy

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Alexander is formally Knighted in Edinburgh Sir Alexander McCall Smith has been Knighted by King Charles III in the Great Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The investiture ceremony took place today, Tuesday 2 July 2024, and forms a central part of Royal Week, during which the Monarch spends some days visiting various […]

Events

A Life of Poetry: Alexander McCall Smith at Push the Boat Out Festival, Edinburgh UK

Date: 23 November 2024

Venue: The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh

Time: 12.00 midday

Renowned and much loved author Alexander McCall Smith is perhaps best known for acclaimed novels such as The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and 44 Scotland Street series. But did you know that he’s also a poet? Poetry has always been a central love of Smith’s; a passion which has lasted a lifetime. Since lockdown, […]

Literary Dinner with Sir Alexander McCall Smith, St Andrews Book Festival, London UK

Date: 29 November 2024

Venue: THE CALEDONIAN CLUB (Johnnie Walker Room)

Time: 7.30pm

A not to be missed exclusive evening of fun and laughter with one of Scotland’s multi award-winning, best-loved and most prolific authors, ‘Sandy’ McCall Smith is a raconteur with boundless jollity and endless stories. Follow Scottish tradition with pipers, four courses of delicious gourmet food and a toast with fine wines and maybe even a […]

Alexander McCall Smith at St Andrews Book Festival, London UK

Date: 30 November 2024

Venue: St Columba's Church (Sanctuary), Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0BD

Time: 11.00am

Join the hilarity with Alexander McCall Smith, multi award winning author of too many books to count including the No1 Ladies Detective Agency series, 44 Scotland Street and his latest books The Perfect Passion Company and The Winds from Further West. In conversation with Georgina Godwin.

Tickets and information here.