Article: CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Write-on detective tales; Jayne Howarth looks at a range of books by author Alexander McCall Smith.(News)

Article: McCall Smith juggles series after series ...
Winnipeg Free Press;  October 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... The 58-year-old McCall Smith is the author of more ... the world. But since McCall Smith wrote the first novel ... children's books out: Harriet Bean, Akimbo, and Max and Maddy. Somehow McCall Smith also found time to ...

Article: The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean.(Brief ...
Children's Bookwatch;  December 1, 2006 ;     444 words ...The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean Alexander McCall Smith Bloomsbury Publishers 175-5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 1582349770 $9.95 www.bloomsburyusa.com Harriet loves a good mystery ...

Article: Scholarly publications, children's stories among McCall ...
Daily Breeze;  May 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... and exotic settings adore Alexander McCall Smith's debut novel, The No. 1 Ladies ... the Book Club of the "Today" show, McCall Smith confessed that he did not have to conjure ... her love of Africa. In Mma Ramotswe, McCall Smith presents a folk hero solving cases with ...

Article: Nutty professors Alexander McCall Smith creates ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Reduced Circumstances By Alexander McCall Smith Anchor Books. $9.95 each, paperback. Alexander McCall Smith possesses a seemingly limitless imagination ... modest 200 copies were printed). In McCall Smith's rib-tickling trilogy (Portuguese ...

Article: McCall Smith's `Detective' aided by indie ...
The Boston Herald;  April 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: FRANK QUARATIELLO Alexander McCall Smith has won over millions of readers with ... of American football. To be fair, McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe and raised in Scotland ... football country. In a recent interview, McCall Smith, 58, talked about the newly published ...

Article: SERIAL AUTHOR SPEAKS ON HIS "CONDITION'; ALEXANDER MCCALL ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  November 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Laura T. Ryan Staff writer Alexander McCall Smith had a confession to make Wednesday ... aware that he is currently dead," McCall Smith said. But the prognosis seems much sunnier for McCall Smith, the Scottish author of more than ...

Article: McCall Smith makes monkey out of Macbeth
The Independent - London;  October 19, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... trusted recipe for success. Yet Alexander McCall Smith's first foray into writing an opera ... Macbeth - a joint venture between writer McCall Smith and the Scottish composer Tom Cunningham ... opera, which is based on an encounter McCall Smith had with two primatologists in the ...