At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Today I was excited to learn that the webpage Telegraph, is promoting a new project by Alexander McCall Smith (author of No 1 Ladies Detective Agency). The author is writing an online novel on the Telegraph site, called Corduroy Mansions , with a new chapter written each day. The project started in September, and will finish in February. You can catch up online at www.telegraph.co.uk/onlinenovel...
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Not strictly politics this, but there is a Westminster connection. Ten weeks ago Alexander McCall Smith , the best-selling author and all round fantastic individual, started an on-line daily novel for us at telegraph.co.uk. He writes a chapter a day and publishes it with us, on-line, as he goes. It's called
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Corduroy Mansions is halfway built. The online novel, which Alexander McCall Smith is writing for Telegraph.co.uk, reached its 50th instalment today.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Among his many talents, Alexander McCall Smith plays the contra-bassoon in the Really Terrible Orchestra, which he helped to found in Edinburgh. From the title of his new novel, the reader might expect a light-hearted romp about the formation of a scratch orchestra in the Second World War. What we get is a rather melancholy and subdued account of La (short for Lavender) Ferguson's life....
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Polygon, £14.99 Review: VANESSA CURTIS
evagation (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
I recently read The Kalahari Typing School for Men . I saw it in the library, and recognized Alexander McCall Smith from his work on the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency . I wasn't aware until after I read the The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4) that there was more than 2 books in the series; and although in was clear in reading Kalahari that...
Flos Carmeli (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
from Love Over Scotland Alexander McCall Smith The Morning After Coffee Bar was different from the mass-produced coffee bars that had mushroomed on every street almost everywhere, a development which presaged the flattening effects of globalisation; the spreading, under a cheerful banner, of a sameness that threatened to weaken and destroy all sense of place. This is from the third novel...
Flos Carmeli (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
The two books in the title are by Alexander McCall Smith and represent the first two volumes of a serial novel published first within the pages of a daily newspaper in Scotland. As such the chapters are short, there is a propensity for minor "cliff-hangers" at the ends of chapters and there is a general scattteredness to the motion of the novel that comes from a "slice-of-life" approach...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
by Alexander McCall Smith Polygon, 244pp, £14.99
