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Alexander McCall Smith is a renowned author who has wrote several books with some of the books making into TV series. He was born is Zimbabwe and worked as a professor of law upon graduating at Scotland.

He has written several books including picture books and children’s novels as well as short stories. Some of the books written by McCall smith include Other Tales From Africa and The Girl who Married a Lion.

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Order of No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series

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1 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 1998 Description / Buy
2 Tears of the Giraffe 2000 Description / Buy
3 Morality for Beautiful Girls 2001 Description / Buy
4 The Kalahari Typing School for Men 2002 Description / Buy
5 The Full Cupboard of Life 2003 Description / Buy
6 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies 2004 Description / Buy
7 Blue Shoes and Happiness 2006 Description / Buy
8 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive 2007 Description / Buy
9 The Miracle at Speedy Motors 2008 Description / Buy
10 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built 2009 Description / Buy
11 The Double Comfort Safari Club 2010 Description / Buy
12 The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party 2010 Description / Buy
13 The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection 2012 Description / Buy
14 The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon 2013 Description / Buy
15 The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café 2014 Description / Buy
16 The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine 2015 Description / Buy
17 Precious and Grace 2016 Description / Buy
18 The House of Unexpected Sisters 2017 Description / Buy
19 The Colors of All the Cattle 2018 Description / Buy
20 To the Land of Long Lost Friends 2019 Description / Buy
21 How to Raise an Elephant 2020 Description / Buy
22 The Joy and Light Bus Company 2021 Description / Buy
23 A Song of Comfortable Chairs 2022 Description / Buy
24 From a Far and Lovely Country 2023 Description / Buy
25 The Great Hippopotamus Hotel 2024 Description / Buy

Order of No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Collections

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1 The Cleverness of Ladies 2012 Description / Buy

Order of Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld Series

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1 Portuguese Irregular Verbs 2003 Description / Buy
2 The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs 2003 Description / Buy
3 At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances 2003 Description / Buy
4 Unusual Uses for Olive Oil 2011 Description / Buy
5 Your Inner Hedgehog 2021 Description / Buy

Order of Isabel Dalhousie Series

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1 The Sunday Philosophy Club 2004 Description / Buy
2 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate 2005 Description / Buy
3 The Right Attitude to Rain 2006 Description / Buy
4 The Careful Use of Compliments 2007 Description / Buy
5 The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday / The Comfort Of Saturdays 2008 Description / Buy
6 The Lost Art of Gratitude 2009 Description / Buy
7 The Charming Quirks of Others 2010 Description / Buy
8 The Forgotten Affairs of Youth 2011 Description / Buy
9 The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds 2012 Description / Buy
10 The Novel Habits of Happiness 2015 Description / Buy
11 A Distant View of Everything 2017 Description / Buy
12 The Quiet Side of Passion 2018 Description / Buy
13 The Geometry of Holding Hands 2020 Description / Buy
14 The Sweet Remnants of Summer 2022 Description / Buy
15 The Conditions of Unconditional Love 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Isabel Dalhousie Short Stories/Novellas

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1 The Perils of Morning Coffee (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
2 At the Reunion Buffet 2015 Description / Buy
3 Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine (Short Story) 2016 Description / Buy

Order of 44 Scotland Street Series

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1 44 Scotland Street 2005 Description / Buy
2 Espresso Tales 2005 Description / Buy
3 Love Over Scotland 2006 Description / Buy
4 The World According to Bertie 2007 Description / Buy
5 The Unbearable Lightness Of Scones 2008 Description / Buy
6 The Importance of Being Seven 2010 Description / Buy
7 Bertie Plays the Blues 2011 Description / Buy
8 Sunshine on Scotland Street 2012 Description / Buy
9 Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers 2013 Description / Buy
10 The Revolving Door of Life 2015 Description / Buy
11 The Bertie Project 2017 Description / Buy
12 A Time of Love and Tartan 2017 Description / Buy
13 The Peppermint Tea Chronicles 2019 Description / Buy
14 A Promise of Ankles 2020 Description / Buy
15 Love in the Time of Bertie 2021 Description / Buy
16 The Enigma of Garlic 2023 Description / Buy
17 The Stellar Debut of Galactica Macfee 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Myths Series

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1 Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams 2006 Description / Buy
2 The Fire Gospel ( By: Michel Faber) 2006 Description / Buy
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Order of Corduroy Mansions Series

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1 Corduroy Mansions 2009 Description / Buy
2 The Dog Who Came in from the Cold 2009 Description / Buy
3 A Conspiracy of Friends 2010 Description / Buy

Order of The School Ship Tobermory Series

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1 School Ship Tobermory 2015 Description / Buy
2 The Sands of Shark Island 2016 Description / Buy
3 The Race to Kangaroo Cliff 2019 Description / Buy
4 The Secret of the Dark Waterfall ( With: Iain Mcintosh) 2019 Description / Buy

Order of The Perfect Passion Company Series

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1 Cook For Me 2023 Description / Buy
2 A Laborer in the Vineyard of Love 2023 Description / Buy
3 The Girl From Melbourne 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Paul Stuart Series

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1 My Italian Bulldozer 2017 Description / Buy
2 The Second-Worst Restaurant in France 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Detective Varg Series

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1 Varg in Love (Short Story) 2013 Description / Buy
2 The Department of Sensitive Crimes 2019 Description / Buy
3 The Talented Mr. Varg 2020 Description / Buy
4 The Man with the Silver Saab 2021 Description / Buy
5 The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Detective Varg Short Stories/Novellas

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1 The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (Short Story) 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Akimbo Series with LeUyen Pham

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1 Akimbo and the Lions (Short Story) 1992 Description / Buy
2 Akimbo and the Crocodile Man 1993 Description / Buy
3 Akimbo and the Elephants 2005 Description / Buy
4 Akimbo and the Snakes 2006 Description / Buy
5 Akimbo and the Baboons (Short Story) 2008 Description / Buy

Order of Harriet Bean Series

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1 The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean 1990 Description / Buy
2 Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats 1991 Description / Buy
3 The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean 1993 Description / Buy

Order of Max & Maddy Series

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1 Max & Maddy and the Bursting Balloons Mystery 1997 Description / Buy
2 Max & Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery (Short Story) 1999 Description / Buy

Order of Precious Ramotswe's Very First Cases Series

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1 The Great Cake Mystery 2009 Description / Buy
2 Precious and the Monkeys 2010 Description / Buy
3 Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill (Short Story) 2012 Description / Buy
4 Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion 2013 Description / Buy
5 Precious and the Zebra Necklace 2015 Description / Buy

Order of Young Corgi Series

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1 Alix and the Tigers 1988 Description / Buy
2 Suzy Magician 1990 Description / Buy
3 The Tin Dog 1990 Description / Buy

Order of The Big-Top Mysteries Series

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1 The Big-Top Mysteries – The Case of the Vanishing Granny (Short Story) ( With: Sam Usher) 2020 Description / Buy

Order of Alexander McCall Smith Standalone Novels

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1 Uncle Gangster 1989 Description / Buy
2 La's Orchestra Saves the World 2008 Description / Buy
3 Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party 2014 Description / Buy
4 The Forever Girl 2014 Description / Buy
5 The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse 2017 Description / Buy
6 The Pavilion in the Clouds 2022 Description / Buy
7 The Perfect Passion Company 2024 Description / Buy
8 Looking for You 2025 Description / Buy

Order of Alexander McCall Smith Children's Books

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1 White Hippo 1980 Description / Buy
2 Film Boy 1988 Description / Buy
3 The Joke Machine 1990 Description / Buy
4 Marzipan Max 1991 Description / Buy
5 The Girl Who Changed the Weather 1991 Description / Buy
6 Calculator Annie 1992 Description / Buy
7 Springy Jane 1992 Description / Buy
8 Who Invented Peanut Butter? 1993 Description / Buy
9 My Chameleon Uncle 1993 Description / Buy
10 The Doughnut Ring 1994 Description / Buy
11 The Princess Trick 1994 Description / Buy
12 Paddy and the Ratcatcher 1994 Description / Buy
13 The Banana Machine 1994 Description / Buy
14 Billy Rubbish 1995 Description / Buy
15 The Bubblegum Tree 1996 Description / Buy
16 The Watermelon Boys 1996 Description / Buy
17 The Popcorn Pirates 1999 Description / Buy
18 Monkey Boy 2000 Description / Buy
19 Teacher Trouble 2000 Description / Buy
20 The Spaghetti Tangle 2005 Description / Buy
21 The Muscle Machine 2006 Description / Buy
22 Boing Boing 2016 Description / Buy
23 Hari & His Electric Feet 2017 Description / Buy
24 Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery 2018 Description / Buy
25 Freddie Mole (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy
26 The Great Clown Conundrum (Short Story) 2019 Description / Buy
27 Noah Wild and the Floating Zoo 2020 Description / Buy

Order of Alexander McCall Smith Short Story Collections

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1 Children of Wax: African Folk Tales 1989 Description / Buy
2 Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations 1995 Description / Buy
3 "Trouble at the North Pole" and Other Stories 1996 Description / Buy
4 The Perfect Hamburger and Other Delicious Stories 2001 Description / Buy
5 The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004 Description / Buy
6 The Baboons Who Went This Way and That: Folktales from Africa 2006 Description / Buy
7 The Book That Changed My Life 2006 Description / Buy
8 Trains and Lovers 2012 Description / Buy
9 Chance Developments 2016 Description / Buy
10 Pianos and Flowers 2019 Description / Buy
11 Marvellous Mix-ups 2020 Description / Buy
12 In a Time of Distance and Other Poems 2020 Description / Buy
13 Tiny Tales: Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness 2021 Description / Buy
14 The Private Life of Spies and the Exquisite Art of Getting Even 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Alexander McCall Smith Non-Fiction Books

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1 A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh 2014 Description / Buy
2 Who Built Scotland ( With: Kathleen Jamie, James Robertson, James Crawford, Alistair Moffat) 2017 Description / Buy

Order of Alexander McCall Smith Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Good Dog Lion ( With: David Dean) 2014 Description / Buy
2 Freddie Mole, Lion Tamer ( With: Kate Hindley) 2017 Description / Buy

Order of Austen Project Series

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1 Sense & Sensibility ( By: Joanna Trollope) 2013 Description / Buy
2 Northanger Abbey ( By: Val McDermid) 2014 Description / Buy
3 Emma 2014 Description / Buy
4 Eligible ( By: Curtis Sittenfeld) 2016 Description / Buy
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Order of Mysterious Profiles Series

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1 Rambo ( By: David Morrell) 2022 Available at mysteriousbookshop.com
2 Elvis Cole and Joe Pike ( By: Robert Crais) 2022 Description / Buy
3 Jack Taylor ( By: Ken Bruen) 2022 Description / Buy
4 Jack Reacher ( By: Lee Child) 2022 Description / Buy
5 Charlie Parker ( By: John Connolly) 2022 Description / Buy
6 Hieronymus Bosch ( By: Michael Connelly) 2022 Description / Buy
7 Lincoln Rhyme ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2022 Description / Buy
8 Alex Delaware ( By: Jonathan Kellerman) 2022 Description / Buy
9 Tess Monaghan ( By: Laura Lippman) 2022 Description / Buy
10 Charlie Resnick ( By: John Harvey) 2022 Description / Buy
11 Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus ( By: Faye Kellerman) 2022 Description / Buy
12 Inspector Morse ( By: Colin Dexter) 2022 Description / Buy
13 Dismas Hardy ( By: John Lescroart) 2022 Description / Buy
14 Bob Lee Swagger ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2022 Description / Buy
15 Aloysius X. L. Pendergast ( By: Douglas Preston) 2022 Description / Buy
16 Lou Boldt (Short Story) ( By: Ridley Pearson) 2022 Description / Buy
17 Spenser ( By: Robert B. Parker) 2022 Description / Buy
18 Charlotte and Thomas Pitt ( By: Anne Perry) 2022 Description / Buy
19 John Rebus ( By: Ian Rankin) 2022 Description / Buy
20 Mallory ( By: Carol O'Connell) 2022 Description / Buy
21 Jane Whitefield (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2022 Description / Buy
22 Ian Rutledge (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2022 Description / Buy
23 Amos Walker (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2022 Description / Buy
24 Precious Ramotswe (Short Story) 2022 Description / Buy
25 Maisie Dobbs (Short Story) ( By: Jacqueline Winspear) 2022 Description / Buy
26 The Lincoln Lawyer (Short Story) ( By: Michael Connelly) 2022 Description / Buy
27 Condor (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2023 Description / Buy
28 Ben Kincaid (Short Story) ( By: William Bernhardt) 2023 Description / Buy
29 Repairman Jack (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2023 Description / Buy
30 Joe Pickett (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2024 Description / Buy
31 Peter Diamond (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2024 Description / Buy
32 Nathan Heller (Short Story) ( By: Max Allan Collins) 2024 Description / Buy
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Order of Writers on Writers Series

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1 Notes on Sontag ( By: Phillip Lopate) 2009 Description / Buy
2 On Whitman ( By: C.K. Williams) 2010 Description / Buy
3 On Conan Doyle ( By: Michael Dirda) 2011 Description / Buy
4 What W. H. Auden Can Do for You 2013 Description / Buy
5 On Elizabeth Bishop ( By: Colm Tóibín) 2015 Description / Buy
6 On Empson ( By: Michael Wood) 2017 Description / Buy
7 On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist ( By: John Burnside) 2018 Description / Buy
8 On Seamus Heaney ( By: Roy Foster) 2020 Description / Buy
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Alexander McCall Smith Anthologies

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1 A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories 2000 Description / Buy
2 One City 2005 Description / Buy
3 A New Omnibus of Crime 2005 Description / Buy
4 The Sunday Night Book Club 2006 Description / Buy
5 The Best British Mysteries IV 2007 Description / Buy
6 Midsummer Nights 2009 Description / Buy
7 Ox-Tales 2009 Description / Buy
8 Crimespotting 2009 Description / Buy
9 The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 2010 Description / Buy
10 Imagined Lives 2010 Description / Buy
11 No Rest for the Dead 2011 Description / Buy
12 The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 2011 Description / Buy
13 What You Wish For 2011 Description / Buy
14 Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers 2012 Description / Buy
15 How Rude! Modern Manners Defined 2012 Description / Buy
16 OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters 2014 Description / Buy
17 Who Built Scotland 2017 Description / Buy
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Alexander McCall Smith Awards

Throughout his career, McCall Smith has won many awards. The Tears of the Giraffe written in 2000 entered the Guardian’s top ten fiction books. In 2003, The Full Cupboard of Life won was awarded the Saga Award. Moreover, McCall Smith won the British Book Awards Author of The Year award. In addition, the Times Literary Supplement awarded The No.1 Ladies Detective as one of the international book of the Millennium.

Alexander McCall Smith Books into Movies

The No.1 Ladies Detective was adapted for TV broadcast in 2008. This novel talking about an amateur who turned into professional detective was aired on BBC 1. The novel has become popular worldwide and has now been translated into many languages.

Another novel that made into Television series is Corduroy Mansions. This novel has gained wide popularity across the world. Corduroy became the New York Times best seller and was broadcasted as Television Series on the BBC in 2008.

Another book that became popular and broadcasted in Television is The Saturday Big Tent Wedding. The series has been translated into 45 languages. Moreover, over 20 million copies have been sold. The first episode of the series was directed by Anthony Minghella and produced by Weinstein Company. The series was aired in March 2009 on HBO.

The Sunday Philosophy Club is another series that appeared in 2004. It talks about Isabel Dalhousie who is an intriguing woman. Upon broadcast on Television, The Sunday Philosophy Club became one of the best sellers around the world.

Best Alexander McCall Smith Books

McCall Smith wrote several books, but some of them became more popular around the world. Here are three of the best books by Alexander McCall Smith.

44 Scotland Street: this novel tells a story of Pat – a student who becomes a tenant at 44 Scotland Street during her second gap year. She is the main source of worry to her parents. At her new residence in Edinburg, she meets various neighbors. She falls in love with Bruce- a self centered surveyor. Another neighbor wanted to date her, but pat is not attracted to him. Things become more complicated when Bruce takes the painting that pat was keeping for Matthew at her house. Bruce takes the painting to a fundraising auction. After this, many other events unfold in this story.

Tears of a Giraffe: the story talks about Precious Ramotwse – the only female detective who is given the most challenging task of finding out what happened to the American who disappeared in Kalahari. As she is investigating the case, her fiancé and her housemaid are planning other things. Her fiancé, Matekoni, adopts two orphans without informing Ramotwe. He is worried that precious may send the orphans away. Meanwhile, the housemaid wants to get rid of her so as to continue seeing the male friends in Matekoni’s house. Meanwhile her secretary is promoted to become assistant detective who helps in the investigation. Ramotswe investigates the case using knowledge of human nature and common sense.

The Sunday Philosophy Club: this novel, which was published in 2004, features a protagonist named Isabel Dalhousie. She is a philosopher who is in her early forties and lives in an old house in Edinburg. Fortunately, she had big inheritance from her late mother. She now works as an editor of Applied Ethics Review. Isabel has a close friend known as Cat- a young beautiful woman who operates a delicatessen. She also has another friend called Grace- a bold woman who is interested in spiritualism. Isabel is secretly attracted to Jamie, Cat’s ex-boyfriend. On the Isabel’s garden lives an urban fox known as Brother Fox.

As Isabel was going to the theatre, she sees a young man falling to death. As the young man is falling, Isabel manages to catch his eyes and sees the expression of the shock on the face of the man. This suggests that police verdict on suicide is totally wrong. Isabel decides to know exactly what happens to the man.

When Does The Next Alexander McCall Smith book come out?

The next book by Alexander McCall Smith is Looking for You and will be released on February, 11th 2025.

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