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 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 […]