Biography (from the publishers):
Alexander McCall Smith is the best-selling author of over fifty books. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency has sold
over six million copies in the English language and has been translated into 26
languages. He is the recipient of the
Saga Award, the Glenfiddich Award for Writing and two Man Booker Judge’s
Special Recommendations. He lives in
Edinburgh.
The novels in The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series
are:
The No.1
Ladies' Detective Agency (1998), Tears of
the Giraffe (2000), Morality
for Beautiful Girls (2001), The
Kalahari Typing School for Men (2002), The Full
Cupboard of Life (2004), In the
Company of Cheerful Ladies (2004), Blue Shoes
and Happiness (2006), and The Good
Husband of Zebra Drive (2007). The novels in the Professor Dr. von
Igelfeld entertainments series are: Portuguese
Irregular Verbs (2003), The Finer
Points of Sausage Dogs (2003), and At the
Villa of Reduced Circumstances (2003). The novels in the Sunday
Philosophy Club series are: The Sunday
Philosophy Club (2004), Friends, Lovers,
Chocolate (2005), The Right
Attitude to Rain (2006), and The
Careful Use of Compliments (2007).
The novels in the 44 Scotland Street series are: 44
Scotland Street (2005), Espresso
Tales (2005), Love Over
Scotland (2006), and The World
According to Bertie (2007).
Alexander McCall Smith is also the author of several short story
collections: Children
of Wax (1991), Heavenly
Date and Other Flirtations (1995), and The Girl
Who Married a Lion (2004). He
is also the author of several children’s books, textbooks, and Dream Angus
(2006).
Alexander McCall
Smith – a profile from his agents
Edinburgh:
my No.1 city – an article by Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander
McCall Smith on Dream Angus – watch this video from Youtube
Beal-Russell
lecture: Alexander McCall Smith – watch this video of Alexander McCall
Smith
Alexander McCall
Smith: Book Fest 06 – watch this excellent speech by Alexander McCall Smith
Bookbits.ca
interview – is an audio interview with Alexander McCall Smith in video
format
Alexander
McCall Smith/”A Truckee Home Companion” – listen to this Alexander McCall
Smith audio interview
McCall
Smith comes to Scotsman.com – this site has a series of podcasts where
Alexander McCall Smith reads from his novels
Blue
Shoes and Happiness – features a podcast of Alexander McCall Smith
reading from the novel
Readers Read
– their interview with Alexander McCall Smith from 2003
Powells.com
– their interview with Alexander McCall Smith from 2004
‘You
have to make sure things don’t go to your head’ – an interview in the Guardian
from 2005
Exclusive
interview with Alexander McCall Smith – from Abebooks.com
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