The bibliography of Alexander McCall Smith, a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages.
Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainments series 1997: Portuguese Irregular VerbsMaclean Dubois; 1st Edition (1997) Retrieved 5 December 2012. 2003: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs 2003: At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances 2011: Unusual Uses for Olive Oil 2021: Your Inner Hedgehog 2025: The Lost Language of Oysters
2004: The 2 Pillars of Wisdom – An omnibus edition of the first three von Igelfeld titles
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series 1998: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 2000: Tears of the Giraffe 2001: Morality for Beautiful Girls 2002: The Kalahari Typing School for Men 2003: The Full Cupboard of Life 2004: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (also known as: The Night-Time Dancer) 2006: Blue Shoes and Happiness 2007: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive 2008: The Miracle at Speedy Motors 2009: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built 2010: The Double Comfort Safari Club 2011: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party 2012: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection 2013: The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon 2014: The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café 2015: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine 2016: Precious and Grace 2017: The House of Unexpected Sisters 2018: The Colours of All the Cattle 2019: To the Land of Long Lost Friends 2020: How to Raise an Elephant 2021: The Joy and Light Bus Company 2022: A Song of Comfortable Chairs 2023: From a Far and Lovely Country 2024: The Great Hippopotamus Hotel 2025: In the Time of Five Pumpkins 2026: The Big Cats Dance Party
Extra: 2013: The Slice of No. 1 Celebration Storybook (ebook only)
The Sunday Philosophy Club series Also known as Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries 2004: The Sunday Philosophy Club 2005: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate 2006: The Right Attitude to Rain 2007: The Careful Use of Compliments 2008: The Comfort of Saturdays (UK title) or: The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (American title) 2009: The Lost Art of Gratitude 2010: The Charming Quirks of Others 2011: The Forgotten Affairs of Youth 2011: The Perils of Morning Coffee (ebook only) 2012: The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds 2015: The Novel Habits of Happiness 2015: At the Reunion Buffet (ebook only) 2016: Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine (ebook only) 2017: A Distant View of Everything 2018: The Quiet Side of Passion 2020: The Geometry of Holding Hands 2022: The Sweet Remnants of Summer 2024: The Conditions of Unconditional Love
44 Scotland Street series See also: Bertie Pollock, 44 Scotland Street 2005: 44 Scotland Street 2005: Espresso Tales 2006: Love Over Scotland 2007: The World According to Bertie 2008: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones 2010: The Importance of Being Seven 2011: Bertie Plays The Blues 2012: Sunshine on Scotland Street 2013: Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers 2015: The Revolving Door of Life 2016: The Bertie Project 2017: A Time of Love and Tartan 2019: The Peppermint Tea Chronicles 2020: A Promise of Ankles 2021: Love in the Time of Bertie 2022: The Enigma of Garlic 2023: The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee
Corduroy Mansions series 2009: Corduroy Mansions 2009: The Dog Who Came in from the Cold (published online daily in serial form; also published as a hardcover book on 1 May 2010) 2011: A Conspiracy of Friends
Paul Stuart series 2016: My Italian Bulldozer 2019: The Second Worst Restaurant in France
Detective Varg series 2019: The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (ebook only) 2019: The Department of Sensitive Crimes (his given name is stylised as Älexander on the cover) 2019: Varg in Love (ebook only) 2020: The Talented Mr. Varg 2021: The Man with the Silver Saab 2023: The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf
Perfect Passion Company series
2023: Cook for Me (ebook only) 2024: The Perfect Passion Company 2025: Looking For You: A Novel
Other novels 2008: La's Orchestra Saves the World 2012: Trains and Lovers 2014: The Forever Girl 2014: Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party 2015: Emma: A Modern Retelling 2017: The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse 2022: The Pavilion in the Clouds 2023: The Private Life of Spies 2024: The Love Story of Herb la Fouche 2024: The Winds from Further West 2025: The Private Side of Friendship
Short stories 2011: "The Strange Story of Bobby Box" (a short story published in the young adult anthology What You Wish For)
Short story collections 1989: Children of Wax: African Folk Tales 1995: Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations 2004: The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa 2006: Baboons Who Went This Way and That (Tales from Africa) 2015: Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories 2016: Marvellous Mix-ups 2019: Pianos and Flowers 2020: Tiny Tales 2022: The Exquisite Art of Getting Even
Anthologies
2006: One City (with Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh and J. K. Rowling)
Chapbooks
2022: The Captain's Cabin (a novella published by Out of the Blue Ltd. for the Jamie’s Farm charity)
Children's novels Source: 1980: The White Hippo 1982: The Little Theatre 1984: The Perfect Hamburger 1987: On the Road 1988: Alix and the Tigers 1988: Film Boy 1988: Mike's Magic Seeds 1989: Uncle Gangster 1990: Jeffrey's Joke Machine 1990: Suzy's Magician 1990: The Ice-Cream Bicycle 1990: The Tin Dog 1991: Marzipan Max 1991: The Spaghetti Tangle 1992: Calculator Annie 1992: Springy Jane 1992: The Doughnut Ring 1992: The Princess Trick 1993: My Chameleon Uncle (with Elke Counsell) 1993: The Muscle Machine 1994: Crazy Crocs (with Malorie Blackman) 1994: Paddy and the Ratcatcher 1994: Teacher Trouble 1994: The Banana Machine 1994: Who Invented Peanut Butter? 1995: Billy Rubbish 1996: The Bubblegum Tree 1996: The Watermelon Boys 1999: The Popcorn Pirates 2000: Monkey Boy 2006: Dream Angus 2014: Good Dog lion 2015: Explosive Adventures 2016: Boing Boing 2016: Marvellous Mix-ups 2016: Freddie Mole, Lion Tamer 2018: Hari and his Electric Feet 2018: Max Champion and the Great Race Car Robbery 2020: Noah Wild and the Floating Zoo
Akimbo 1990: Akimbo and the Elephants 1992: Akimbo and the Lions 1993: Akimbo and the Crocodile Man 2007: Akimbo and the Snakes 2008: Akimbo and the Baboons
Harriet Bean 1990: The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean (with Jean Baylis) 1991: Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats (with Jean Baylis) 1993: The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean (with Jean Baylis)
Max & Maddy 1997: Max & Maddy and the Bursting Balloons Mystery 1999: Max & Maddy and the Chocolate Money Mystery
Young Precious Ramotswe 2010: Precious and the PuggiesScots language translation by James Robertson (republished in 2011 as: Precious and the Monkeys, and in 2012 as The Great Cake Mystery) 2012: Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill 2013: Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion 2015: Precious and the Zebra Necklace 2021: Young Precious- The Collected Adventures, omnibus collecting all Young Precious stories
School Ship Tobermory 2015: School Ship Tobermory 2016: The Sands of Shark Island 2018: The Race to Kangaroo Cliff 2019: The Secret of the Dark Waterfall
Big-Top Mysteries 2019: The Case of the Vanishing Granny 2019: The Great Clown Conundrum
Memoir/literary appreciation 2013: What Auden Can Do for You
Poetry 2020: In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems 2023: I Think of You and Other Poems
Anthologies 2018: A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems, ed.
Other 2014: A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh 2017: Who Built Scotland: Twenty-Five Journeys in Search of a Nation (with Kathleen Jamie, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford) 2018: The Tumbling Lassie (operetta; music by Tom Cunningham, libretto by McCall Smith)
Academic texts 1978: Power and Manoeuvrability (with Tony Carty) 1983: Law and Medical Ethics (with J. Kenyon Mason) (this text has gone through several editions: an eighth, by Mason and Graeme Laurie, was published in 2010; McCall Smith contributed to the first six editions) 1987: Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopaedia (with J. Kenyon Mason) 1990: Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advances (editor with Elaine Sutherland) 1991: All About Drink and Drug Abuse (educational text) 1992: Scots Criminal Law (with David H Sheldon, second edition published 1997) 1992: The Criminal Law of Botswana (with Kwame Frimpong) 1993: Duty to Rescue: the Jurispendence of Aid (editor with Michael A. Menlowe, 1993) 1997: Forensic Aspects of Sleep (editor with Colin Shapiro) 2000: Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes (with Daniel W. Shuman) 2001: Errors, Medicine and the Law (with Alan Merry) 2003: A Draft Criminal Code for Scotland (with Eric Clive, Pamela Ferguson and Christopher Gane) 2004: Creating Humans: Ethical Questions where Reproduction and Science Collide (collected lectures, audio recordings)
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