Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith to receive 2020 Edinburgh Award

22 Dec '20

Internationally-admired Edinburgh-based author Alexander McCall Smith CBE has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the...

15 Dec '20

We are now just a week away from the shortest day of the year, so it seems particularly appropriate to share the poem ‘Winter’ from...

07 Dec '20

Three months ago, prestigious monthly magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, invited four of their favourite writers to contribute a short, uplifting story...

30 Nov '20

The following extract is taken from a new collection of short stories and graphic tales, Tiny Tales, from one of the world’s most popular...

26 Nov '20

Ten years to celebrate Scotland. Ten years to bring a dream to fruition. Ten years to reach the new starting point for something incredibly...

24 Nov '20

This spring, there were lofty and gargantuan reading-intentions abroad. Lockdown was the time to finally read War and Peace, or any one of the...

16 Nov '20

As Book Week Scotland opens, booksellers and librarians across the UK are in a state of, well… flux! Bookshops and libraries in England remain...

29 Oct '20

At this peculiar – and often lonely – time of social isolation, there can be few more welcome treats than the discovery of a brand new...

30 Sep '20

In the second of The Cumnock Tryst’s series of online workshops, a part of the A Musical Celebration of the Coalfields community opera...

25 Sep '20

Time to relax. Listen to the world premiere of Alexander McCall Smith's Ninian's Gift, a remarkable collaboration with composer Tom Cunningham....

10 Aug '20

Scotland Street's joyful return to the pages of the Scotsman newspaper.

24 Jul '20

Our own Alexander McCall Smith is amongst 100 of the world’s favourite writers to reveal what they have been reading during quarantine. Taken...

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