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Books By Alexander Mccall Smith - Author

Alexander McCall Smith has written more than fifty books, including specialist academic titles, short story collections, and a number of immensely popular children's books. But he is best known for his internationally acclaimed No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, published in the US in 2002 and 2003. The first installment, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, received two Booker Judge's Special Recommendations upon its U.K. publication in 1998, and in 2003 received The Saga Wit Award (commonly known as the "silver Booker" for authors over the age of 50). The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series now numbers a total of five books (he is working on the sixth) and has been optioned for feature film. The series has become an international bestseller, with more than 3.5 million copies in print in the U.S. alone.

McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe (formerly called Southern Rhodesia) 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. He was for many years Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, and a visiting professor at a number of other universities elsewhere, including ones in Italy and the United States (where he has twice been visiting professor at SMU Law School in Dallas, Texas).

In addition to his university work, he 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.

Alexander McCall Smith currently lives in Edinburgh with his wife Elizabeth (an Edinburgh doctor), their two daughters Lucy and Emily, and their cat Gordon. 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 flute.

Author's Website: https://www.alexandermccallsmith.co.uk/

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Young Precious

Smith and 1 more

Ebook

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£8.99

The Talented Mr Varg

Alexander Mccall Smith

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£17.09 £18.99

The Great Clown Conundrum

Alexander McCall Smith

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£6.29 £6.99

Secret of the Dark Waterfall

Smith and 1 more

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£4.99

Hari and His Electric Feet

Alexander Mccall Smith

Paperback

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£7.19 £7.99

School Ship Tobermory

Alexander Mccall Smith

Paperback

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£7.19 £7.99

The Perfect Hamburger

Alexander McCall Smith

Paperback

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£6.29 £6.99

Sands of Shark Island, The

Smith and 1 more

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£3.99

Boing Boing

Alexander Mccall Smith

Paperback

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£6.29 £6.99

Explosive Adventures

Alexander Mccall Smith

Paperback

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£6.29 £6.99

Precious and the Zebra Necklace

Alexander Mccall Smith

Ebook

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£3.99

Max and Maddy Twist 2-Book Omnibus

Smith and 1 more

Ebook

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£29.94

Harriet Bean 3-Book Omnibus

Smith and 1 more

Ebook

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£17.99

Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion

Smith and 1 more

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£3.99

Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill

McCall-Smith and 1 more

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£3.99

Precious and the Monkeys

McCall-Smith and 1 more

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£3.99

Folktales from Africa

Alexander McCall Smith

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£7.19 £7.99