Alexander McCall Smith was a professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh when he published his debut novel, 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” in 1998, at age 50. Since then, McCall ...
As 44 Scotland Street returns to The Scotsman, David Robinson talks to its prolific author Sir Alexander McCall Smith about The Prime of Bertie Pollock, the latest edition of the world’s ...
Low on dead bodies and high on softly pedalled humour and lightly sprinkled moralising, the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agengy series of novels starring his “traditionally built” (fat) Botswanan private ...