Books written by Alexander McCall Smith

  • The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
    The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

    BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Alexander McCall Smith's The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon.

  • Tiny Tales
    Tiny Tales

    All human and animal life is here - in miniature.These stories are inspired and accompanied by the thirty magnificent strip Tiny Tales created by McCall Smith and illustrated by the brilliant Iain McIntosh - each cartoon a little gem of ...

  • The Bertie Project
    The Bertie Project

    With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another installment in this popular series, now running in its ninth season in the Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie and the gang.

  • Tears of the Giraffe Dd
    Tears of the Giraffe Dd

    TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith's second audiobook, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations .

  • Emma: free sampler
    Emma: free sampler

    ‘It's comfort reading at its most soothing’ Independent ‘Funny, heartfelt and very readable’ Good Housekeeping

  • The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
    The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

    The fifth installment of the best-selling sleuth series features a case involving a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud after a patient dies in a tragic accident. Reprint.

  • Espresso Tales
    Espresso Tales

    The sequel to 44 Scotland Street continues to follow the residents of the converted Edinburgh townhouse, as young Bertie prepares for kindergarten, former surveyor Bruce contemplates a new career, and Pat embarks on a new life at the ...

  • Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations: And Other Flirtations
    Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations: And Other Flirtations

    Some of the stories are curiously peculiar; some are darkly funny; but all of them remind us of why dating is such a precarious endeavor.

  • Akimbo and the Snakes
    Akimbo and the Snakes

    A thrilling story of Africa, snakes and a dangerous mission, from the bestselling author of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

  • How to Raise an Elephant: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (21)
    How to Raise an Elephant: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (21)

    "They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say? "--Publisher

  • Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery
    Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery

    Start your engines and get in gear for an action-packed story from the bestselling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, with fun and energetic illustrations by Kate Hindley.When Max finds an old car ...

  • A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh
    A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh

    This is a story of famous landmarks and lost buildings; the people who made them; the people who lived in them.A Work of Beauty is an intimate portrait of a city by one of Scotland's greatest storytellers.

  • My Italian Bulldozer: A Paul Stuart Novel (1)
    My Italian Bulldozer: A Paul Stuart Novel (1)

    "When food writer Paul Stuart heads to the idyllic Italian hill town of Montalcino to finish his late manuscript, it seems like the perfect escape from complicated city life, and his recent heartbreak.

  • The Sunday Philosophy Club
    The Sunday Philosophy Club

    The editor of The Review of Applied Ethics and an irrepressibly curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his ...

  • What W. H. Auden Can Do for You
    What W. H. Auden Can Do for You

    This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by Auden.

  • The Man with the Silver Saab: A Detective Varg Novel (3)
    The Man with the Silver Saab: A Detective Varg Novel (3)

    Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes and quite familiar with the art scene in Malmö.

  • The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists
    The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists

    As always, it’s up to Ulf to close the case . . . even if he encounters unexpected resistance from the victims themselves. From literary master McCall Smith, this is a bewitching short foray, witty and warm, into Scandinavian mystery.

  • Pianos and Flowers: Unexpected Love Stories
    Pianos and Flowers: Unexpected Love Stories

    In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them.

  • The Forever Girl
    The Forever Girl

    If she ever can . . . Tender and true, The Forever Girl traces love's unpredictable path to maturity with style, wit and feeling.

  • How to Raise an Elephant
    How to Raise an Elephant

    How to Raise an Elephant