Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s best-loved and most prolific authors, applauded across the globe as the author of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and 44 Scotland Street amongst more than 100 other books. He lives in Edinburgh and many of his books are published on our Polygon imprint. He is hugely supportive of publishing in Scotland.
Reading a novel by Alexander McCall Smith feels as if a soothing balm is being applied to all the hurts and injuries inflicted by the world around us
– SMSA, Sydney
LATEST RELEASES
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Feb 2025
£16.99
What if you met the person you were destined to be with? And what if you never saw them again . . . ?
There’s a new case for the Perfect Passion Company. After a serendipitous meeting in a supermarket, Clea meets the man of her dreams. But having…
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Hardback | Pub: 01 Aug 2024
£16.99
‘A call to arms for a better society’ – BBC Radio 4
Often a small and seemingly insignificant event can change the course of our lives.
Not long after starting a new job, Neil meets Chrissie. Romance soon blossoms and together they…
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Hardback | Pub: 01 Feb 2024
£18.99
Rediscover what it means to fall in love.
The Perfect Passion Dating Company at No. 24 Mouse Lane in Edinburgh’s New Town is run by Katie Donald who has an innate instinct for bringing people together. She has developed a skill for finding out…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Jul 2022
£8.99
Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences – or even a page or two – we can see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than in a novel.
In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition,…
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Nov 2023
£17.99
Glasgow for Bertie is the promised land. The city of pies and Irn Bru, far from his controlling mother, Irene – his place of escape. But how will he respond to the news of the proposed merging of Edinburgh and Glasgow? A new member of Bertie’s…
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Paperback | Pub: 23 Apr 2020
£9.99
A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but there are other poems that may be largely unknown that will mean a great deal to the few who are familiar…
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Hardback | Pub: 15 Oct 2020
£12.99
What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love – themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and…
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Paperback | Pub: 13 Jul 2017
£6.99
Set sail with the School Ship Tobermory!
Follow the exploits of the children who go to a most unusual school – the sail-powered training ship Tobermory. When a film crew arrives in Tobermory Bay, Ben and Fee are invited to be extras. But their…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Feb 2023
£8.99
In Pianos and Flowers we are invited to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer.
Three sisters brought up in Penang,…
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Oct 2018
£8.99
Val was working as a land girl when the Americans arrived at the nearby airfield in 1944. Mike, a young American airman, came into her life soon after, and so too did Peter Woodhouse, a dog badly treated on a neighbouring farm and taken in by her…
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023
£8.99
The characters in this delicious book are pushed to the point of no return and seek retribution. But how we get even is not always the best road to redemption. On the island of Mull, it takes an incomer to make the locals realise that they need to…