Alexander McCall Smith has written and contributed to more than 100 books, including specialist academic titles, short story collections, and a number of immensely popular children’s books. He is best known for his internationally acclaimed and bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which currently has thirteen volumes. The series has now been translated into forty-five languages and has sold over twenty million copies worldwide. The first episode of a film adaptation, directed by Anthony Minghella, and produced by the Weinstein Company, premiered on HBO in March 2009. Another series, beginning with The Sunday Philosophy Club, about an intriguing woman named Isabel Dalhousie, appeared in 2004 and immediately leapt onto national bestseller lists, as did its sequels. The ninth Dalhousie novel, The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds, came out fall 2012. McCall Smith’s serial novel, 44 Scotland Street, was published in book form to great acclaim in 2005 and has been followed by many sequels. A solo novel, La’s Orchestra Saves the World, came out in December 2009. Corduroy Mansions, a series depicting the lives of the inhabitants of a large Pimlico house, was published and podcasted by the UK’s Daily Telegraph, and is now published in three volumes.
Online Resources
Selected Bibliography
—No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series:
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (2013)
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (2002)
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (1998)
—Sunday Philosophy Club / Isabel Dalhousie Series:
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (2012)
The Careful Use of Compliments (2007)
The Sunday Philosophy Club (2004)
—44 Scotland Street Series:
Sunshine on Scotland Street (2012)
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (2008)
