Yellow Lighted Bookshop are delighted to welcome Alexander (Sandy) McCall Smith back to Tetbury Goods Shed for a very special event celebrating not one, but two new titles!
Join Sandy for an evening of great fun, stories and erudition, with fellow bestselling author Rachel Joyce. He will be taking us to the offices of The Perfect Passion Company, a dating agency in Edinburgh’s New Town, the setting for his new novel, Looking for You.
Also in Edinburgh, we will catch up with Isabel Dalhousie in The Conditions of Unconditional Love.
And we’ll be visiting Germany, where we will hear about The Lost Language of Oysters, the latest book in the series with Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his colleagues at the University of Regensburg’s Institute of Romance Philology.
Finally, of course, no event with Sandy would be complete without catching up with goings on in Botswana and all the latest news from Mma Ramotswe and the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency…
About Sandy
Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and best-loved authors. He was born in 1948 and brought up in Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), before moving to Scotland at the age of 17 to study at the University of Edinburgh. For many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the UK and Botswana before turning his hand to writing fiction.
But it wasn’t until the publication of the highly successful The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series that Alexander became a household name. These novels have contributed towards a more positive world-view of Botswana and encouraged thousands of people to fall in love with this beautiful country.
His various series of books include the popular 44 Scotland Street novels — first published as a serial novel in the Scotsman newspaper and now the longest-running serial novel in the world; the Edinburgh-set Isabel Dalhousie novels; the hilarious von Igelfeld series, and the Ulf Varg series of Scandi blanc novels set in Sweden.
He launched a new series launched in 2024: The Perfect Passion Company. He also writes stand-alone novels and short stories, best-selling poetry, and children’s books.
Alexander was honoured as Knight Bachelor in His Majesty The King’s New Year Honours list, 2024 – for services to literature, academia and charity.
Licensed bar. Doors open at 6:45pm. Talk starts at 7:30pm.
Our next Shed Talk on Wednesday 28 May at 7pm