Alexander McCall Smith

28 Series

Alexander McCall Smith, a Scottish author born in Rhodesia, is renowned for his crime fiction and children's books. He is best known for series such as the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Isabel Dalhousie, and 44 Scotland Street. Additionally, he has authored non-fiction works in medical law and bioethics.

In "In the Company of Cheerful Ladies," also known as "The Night-Time Dancer," Precious Ramotswe navigates personal and professional challenges with her characteristic warmth and wisdom. "The Great Cake Mystery," alternatively titled "Precious and the Puggies" in Scots and "Precious and the Monkeys" in English, follows Precious as she solves a culinary crime. "The Comfort of Saturdays," released as "The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday" in the UK, delves into the comforting routines and unexpected events in Precious's life. In "Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill," known in Scots as "Precious and the Mischief at Meerkat Brae," Precious tackles a mystery involving local wildlife. Each story showcases Precious Ramotswe's unique approach to life's complexities, blending humor and heartfelt moments.

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

(1998)

Tears of the Giraffe

(2000)

Morality for Beautiful Girls

(2001)

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

(2002)

The Full Cupboard of Life

(2003)

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

(2004)

Blue Shoes and Happiness

(2006)

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

(2007)

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

(2008)

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

(2009)

The Double Comfort Safari Club

(2010)

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

(2010)

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

(2012)

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

(2013)

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café

(2014)

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

(2015)

Precious and Grace

(2016)

The House of Unexpected Sisters

(2017)

The Colors of All the Cattle

(2018)

To the Land of Long Lost Friends

(2019)

How to Raise an Elephant

(2020)

The Joy and Light Bus Company

(2021)

A Song of Comfortable Chairs

(2022)

From a Far and Lovely Country

(2023)

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel

(2024)

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Collections

The Cleverness of Ladies

(2012)

Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

(2003)

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

(2003)

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

(2003)

Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

(2011)

Your Inner Hedgehog

(2021)

Isabel Dalhousie

The Sunday Philosophy Club

(2004)

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

(2005)

The Right Attitude to Rain

(2006)

The Careful Use of Compliments

(2007)

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday / The Comfort Of Saturdays

(2008)

The Lost Art of Gratitude

(2009)

The Charming Quirks of Others

(2010)

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

(2011)

The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

(2012)

The Novel Habits of Happiness

(2015)

A Distant View of Everything

(2017)

The Quiet Side of Passion

(2018)

The Geometry of Holding Hands

(2020)

The Sweet Remnants of Summer

(2022)

The Conditions of Unconditional Love

(2024)

Isabel Dalhousie Short Stories/Novellas

The Perils of Morning Coffee

(2011)

At the Reunion Buffet

(2015)

Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine

(2016)

44 Scotland Street

(2005)

Espresso Tales

(2005)

Love Over Scotland

(2006)

The World According to Bertie

(2007)

The Unbearable Lightness Of Scones

(2008)

The Importance of Being Seven

(2010)

Bertie Plays the Blues

(2011)

Sunshine on Scotland Street

(2012)

Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers

(2013)

The Revolving Door of Life

(2015)

The Bertie Project

(2017)

A Time of Love and Tartan

(2017)

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles

(2019)

A Promise of Ankles

(2020)

Love in the Time of Bertie

(2021)

The Enigma of Garlic

(2023)

The Stellar Debut of Galactica Macfee

(2024)

Myths

Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams

(2006)

The Fire Gospel

(2006)(By: Michel Faber)

Corduroy Mansions

(2009)

The Dog Who Came in from the Cold

(2009)

A Conspiracy of Friends

(2010)

The School Ship Tobermory

School Ship Tobermory

(2015)

The Sands of Shark Island

(2016)

The Race to Kangaroo Cliff

(2019)

The Secret of the Dark Waterfall

(2019)(With: Iain Mcintosh)

The Perfect Passion Company

Cook For Me

(2023)

A Laborer in the Vineyard of Love

(2023)

The Girl From Melbourne

(2024)

Paul Stuart

My Italian Bulldozer

(2017)

The Second-Worst Restaurant in France

(2019)

Detective Varg

Varg in Love

(2013)

The Department of Sensitive Crimes

(2019)

The Talented Mr. Varg

(2020)

The Man with the Silver Saab

(2021)

The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf

(2023)

Detective Varg Short Stories/Novellas

The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists

(2019)

Akimbo (with LeUyen Pham)

Akimbo and the Lions

(1992)

Akimbo and the Crocodile Man

(1993)

Akimbo and the Elephants

(2005)

Akimbo and the Snakes

(2006)

Akimbo and the Baboons

(2008)

Harriet Bean

The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean

(1990)

Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats

(1991)

The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean

(1993)

Max & Maddy

Max & Maddy and the Bursting Balloons Mystery

(1997)

Max & Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery

(1999)

Precious Ramotswe's Very First Cases

The Great Cake Mystery

(2009)

Precious and the Monkeys

(2010)

Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill

(2012)

Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion

(2013)

Precious and the Zebra Necklace

(2015)

Young Corgi

Alix and the Tigers

(1988)

Suzy Magician

(1990)

The Tin Dog

(1990)

The Big-Top Mysteries

The Big-Top Mysteries– The Case of the Vanishing Granny

(2020)(With: Sam Usher)

Standalone Novels

Uncle Gangster

(1989)

La's Orchestra Saves the World

(2008)

Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party

(2014)

The Forever Girl

(2014)

The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse

(2017)

The Pavilion in the Clouds

(2022)

The Perfect Passion Company

(2024)

Looking for You

(2025)

Children's

White Hippo

(1980)

Film Boy

(1988)

The Joke Machine

(1990)

Marzipan Max

(1991)

The Girl Who Changed the Weather

(1991)

Calculator Annie

(1992)

Springy Jane

(1992)

Who Invented Peanut Butter?

(1993)

My Chameleon Uncle

(1993)

The Doughnut Ring

(1994)

The Princess Trick

(1994)

Paddy and the Ratcatcher

(1994)

The Banana Machine

(1994)

Billy Rubbish

(1995)

The Bubblegum Tree

(1996)

The Watermelon Boys

(1996)

The Popcorn Pirates

(1999)

Monkey Boy

(2000)

Teacher Trouble

(2000)

The Spaghetti Tangle

(2005)

The Muscle Machine

(2006)

Boing Boing

(2016)

Hari & His Electric Feet

(2017)

Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery

(2018)

Freddie Mole

(2018)

The Great Clown Conundrum

(2019)

Noah Wild and the Floating Zoo

(2020)

Short Story Collections

Children of Wax: African Folk Tales

(1989)

Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations

(1995)

"Trouble at the North Pole" and Other Stories

(1996)

The Perfect Hamburger and Other Delicious Stories

(2001)

The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa

(2004)

The Baboons Who Went This Way and That: Folktales from Africa

(2006)

The Book That Changed My Life

(2006)

Trains and Lovers

(2012)

Chance Developments

(2016)

Pianos and Flowers

(2019)

Marvellous Mix-ups

(2020)

In a Time of Distance and Other Poems

(2020)

Tiny Tales: Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness

(2021)

The Private Life of Spies and the Exquisite Art of Getting Even

(2023)

Non-Fiction

A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh

(2014)

Who Built Scotland

(2017)(With: Kathleen Jamie,James Robertson,James Crawford,Alistair Moffat)

Short Stories/Novellas

Good Dog Lion

(2014)(With: David Dean)

Freddie Mole, Lion Tamer

(2017)(With: Kate Hindley)

Austen Project

Sense & Sensibility

(2013)(By: Joanna Trollope)

Northanger Abbey

(2014)(By: Val McDermid)

Emma

(2014)

Eligible

(2016)(By: Curtis Sittenfeld)

Mysterious Profiles

Rambo

(2022)(By: David Morrell)

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike

(2022)(By: Robert Crais)

Jack Taylor

(2022)(By: Ken Bruen)

Jack Reacher

(2022)(By: Lee Child)

Charlie Parker

(2022)(By: John Connolly)

Hieronymus Bosch

(2022)(By: Michael Connelly)

Lincoln Rhyme

(2022)(By: Jeffery Deaver)

Alex Delaware

(2022)(By: Jonathan Kellerman)

Tess Monaghan

(2022)(By: Laura Lippman)

Charlie Resnick

(2022)(By: John Harvey)

Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus

(2022)(By: Faye Kellerman)

Inspector Morse

(2022)(By: Colin Dexter)

Dismas Hardy

(2022)(By: John Lescroart)

Bob Lee Swagger

(2022)(By: Stephen Hunter)

Aloysius X. L. Pendergast

(2022)(By: Douglas Preston)

Lou Boldt

(2022)(By: Ridley Pearson)

Spenser

(2022)(By: Robert B. Parker)

Charlotte and Thomas Pitt

(2022)(By: Anne Perry)

John Rebus

(2022)(By: Ian Rankin)

Mallory

(2022)(By: Carol O'Connell)

Jane Whitefield

(2022)(By: Thomas Perry)

Ian Rutledge

(2022)(By: Charles Todd)

Amos Walker

(2022)(By: Loren D. Estleman)

Precious Ramotswe

(2022)

Maisie Dobbs

(2022)(By: Jacqueline Winspear)

The Lincoln Lawyer

(2022)(By: Michael Connelly)

Condor

(2023)(By: James Grady)

Ben Kincaid

(2023)(By: William Bernhardt)

Repairman Jack

(2023)(By: F. Paul Wilson)

Joe Pickett

(2024)(By: C.J. Box)

Peter Diamond

(2024)(By: Peter Lovesey)

Nathan Heller

(2024)(By: Max Allan Collins)

Writers on Writers

Notes on Sontag

(2009)(By: Phillip Lopate)

On Whitman

(2010)(By: C.K. Williams)

On Conan Doyle

(2011)(By: Michael Dirda)

What W. H. Auden Can Do for You

(2013)

On Elizabeth Bishop

(2015)(By: Colm Tóibín)

On Empson

(2017)(By: Michael Wood)

On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist

(2018)(By: John Burnside)

On Seamus Heaney

(2020)(By: Roy Foster)

Anthologies

A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories

(2000)

One City

(2005)

A New Omnibus of Crime

(2005)

The Sunday Night Book Club

(2006)

The Best British Mysteries IV

(2007)

Midsummer Nights

(2009)

Ox-Tales

(2009)

Crimespotting

(2009)

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7

(2010)

Imagined Lives

(2010)

No Rest for the Dead

(2011)

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8

(2011)

What You Wish For

(2011)

Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers

(2012)

How Rude! Modern Manners Defined

(2012)

OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters

(2014)

Who Built Scotland

(2017)

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