Books written by Alexander McCall Smith

  • The Importance of Being Seven: A 44 Scotland Street Novel
    The Importance of Being Seven: A 44 Scotland Street Novel

    * The sixth volume of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful serial novels set in Edinburgh's New Town

  • The Right Attitude to Rain
    The Right Attitude to Rain

    * The third in THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB series, starring amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie.

  • Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats
    Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats

    Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey. Reprint.

  • The Bubblegum Tree
    The Bubblegum Tree

    When Billy and Nicola try to help the owner of the local bubblegum factory whose usual supply of gum has failed, they find themselves in a tiger-trouncing, woodcutter-walloping, bubblegum-blowing adventure!

  • Tears of the Giraffe
    Tears of the Giraffe

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

  • Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories
    Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories

    In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them.

  • Mystery of Meerkat Hill
    Mystery of Meerkat Hill

    Precious Ramotswe makes friends with two new children at her school and is more than willing to ply her burgeoning detective skills by helping them find their missing cow.

  • Alexander McCall Smith's Explosive Adventures
    Alexander McCall Smith's Explosive Adventures

    An irresistible bind-up edition of two fabulously fun, wonderfully witty adventure mysteries, from the bestselling author of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, and with amazing illustrations by Kate Hindley ...

  • The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
    The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

    Mma Ramotswe is not one to sit about.

  • Precious and Grace
    Precious and Grace

    Precious and Grace is a story about being a detective, the complexities of human nature, as well as lessons about gratitude and obligation.

  • Sunshine on Scotland Street
    Sunshine on Scotland Street

    The residents of Scotland Street find their peace and friendships tested by an upscale wedding that puts traumatized best man Matthew on a troubled path, prompts an uncanny encounter between narcissist Bruce and his twin and causes Big Lou ...

  • The Dog Who Came in from the Cold
    The Dog Who Came in from the Cold

    Terence Moongrove's estate is turned upside down by the cosmological experiments of two New Age operators, while literary agent Barbara Ragg takes on a companion of the Abominable Snowman and Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay is recruited ...

  • Good Dog Lion
    Good Dog Lion

    Timo and his mother do not have much money - in fact, they have almost none.

  • The Second-Worst Restaurant in France: A Paul Stuart Novel (2)
    The Second-Worst Restaurant in France: A Paul Stuart Novel (2)

    In this story about a man who prides himself on his taste finding delight in the most unexpected places, we have Alexander McCall Smith at his most witty and charming.

  • The Lost Art of Gratitude
    The Lost Art of Gratitude

    * The new Isabel Dalhousie novel

  • The Comfort of Saturdays
    The Comfort of Saturdays

    * An intriguing new mystery for Edinburgh-based philosopher Isabel Dalhousie

  • Unusual Uses for Olive Oil
    Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

    Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld despairs over an academic rival's undeserved acclaim and stumbles into a haphazard romance with a charming widow before a mountaineering accident catapults him into unwanted fame.

  • The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
    The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

    Detective Precious Ramotswe has her hands full with her assistant's resignation, as well as a set of cases involving unexplained deaths at a nearby hospital, an allegedly cheating husband, and thievery at a local printing company.

  • Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
    Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate.

  • Love Over Scotland
    Love Over Scotland

    With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse.