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VJ Books presents Alexander McCall Smith! Alexander McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe and was educated there and in Scotland. He became a law professor in Scotland, and it was in this role that he first returned to Africa to work in Botswana, where he helped to set up a new law school at the University of Botswana. For many years he was Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, and has been a visiting professor at a number of other universities elsewhere, including ones in Italy and the United States. He is now a Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh.
In addition to his university work, McCall Smith was for four years the vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the UK, the chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee, and a member of the International Bioethics Commission of UNESCO. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library Award; the United Kingdom's Author of The Year Award in 2004 and Sweden's Martin Beck award. In 2007 he was made a CBE for his services to literature in the Queen's New Year Honors List.
Alexander McCall Smith currently lives in Edinburgh with his wife Elizabeth (an Edinburgh doctor), and their two daughters Lucy and Emily. His hobbies include playing wind instruments, and he is the co-founder of an amateur orchestra called "The Really Terrible Orchestra" in which he plays the bassoon and his wife plays the horn.
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Alexander McCall Smith
Bibliography
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
- 1998 The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- 2000 Tears of the Giraffe
- 2001 Morality for Beautiful Girls
- 2002 The Kalahari Typing School for Men
- 2003 The Full Cupboard of Life
- 2004 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (also known as The Night-Time Dancer.)
- 2006 Blue Shoes and Happiness
- 2007 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
- 2008 The Miracle at Speedy Motors
- 2009 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
- 2010 The Double Comfort Safari Club
- 2010 Precious and the Puggies (novella for younger readers, first published in a Scots translation by James Robertson.)
- 2011 Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
The 2½ Pillars of Wisdom
- 2003 Portuguese Irregular Verbs
- 2003 The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
- 2003 At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
The Sunday Philosophy Club Series
also known as Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries
- 2004 The Sunday Philosophy Club
- 2005 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
- 2006 The Right Attitude to Rain
- 2007 The Careful Use of Compliments
- 2008 The Comfort of Saturdays (UK title) or The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (American title)
- 2009: The Lost Art of Gratitude
- 2010: The Charming Quirks of Others
44 Scotland Street Series
- 2005 44 Scotland Street
- 2005 Espresso Tales
- 2006 Love over Scotland
- 2007 The World According to Bertie
- 2008 The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
- 2010 The Importance of Being Seven
Corduroy Mansions
- 2009 Corduroy Mansions
- 2009 The Dog Who Came in from the Cold (published online daily in serial form; also published as a hard cover book on 1 May 2010).
Other novels
- 2008 La's Orchestra Saves the World
Short story collections
- 1991 Children of Wax: African Folk Tales
- 1995 Heavenly Date: And Other Flirtations
- 2004 The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa
Children's books
- 1980 The White Hippo
- 1984 The Perfect Hamburger
- 1988 Alix and the Tigers
- 1990 The Tin Dog
- 1991 Calculator Annie
- 1991 The Popcorn Pirates
- 1992 Akimbo and the Lions
- 1992 The Doughnut Ring
- 1993 Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
- 1994 Paddy and the Ratcatcher
- 1995 The Muscle Machine
- 1996 The Bubblegum Tree
- 1997 Bursting Balloons Mystery
- 1997 The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
- 1999 Chocolate Money Mystery
- 2000 Teacher Trouble
- 2005 Akimbo and the Elephants
- 2006 Dream Angus
- 2006 Akimbo and the Snakes
- 2008 Akimbo and the Baboons
Academic texts
- 1978 Power and Manoeuvrability (with Tony Carty)
- 1983 Law and Medical Ethics (with J Kenyon Mason) (this text has gone through several editions: a seventh, by Mason and Graeme Laurie, was published in 2006. McCall Smith contributed to all six previous editions.)
- 1987 Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopaedia (with J Kenyon Mason)
- 1990 Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advances (with Elaine Sutherland)
- 1992 The Criminal Law of Botswana (with Kwame Frimpong)
- 1993 The Duty to Rescue (with Michael Menlowe, 1993)
- 1992 Scots Criminal Law (with David H Sheldon, second edition published 1997)
- 1997 Forensic Aspects of Sleep (with Colin Shapiro)
- 2000 Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes (with Daniel W Shuman)
- 2001 Errors, Medicine and the Law (with Alan Merry)
- 2003 A Draft Criminal Code for Scotland (with Eric Clive, Pamela Ferguson and Christopher Gane)
- 2004 Creating Humans: Ethical questions where reproduction and science collide (collected lectures, audio recordings)
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