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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.
[1]
Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainments series
1997:
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
[2]
2003:
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
2003:
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
2011:
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil
2021:
Your Inner Hedgehog
2004: The 21 ⁄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 Colors 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
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
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 Stewart 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)
Other novels
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
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:
[3]
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 Puggies
[4] (republished in 2011 as: Precious and the Monkeys , and in 2012 as
The Great Cake Mystery
[5] )
2012:
Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill
2013:
Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion
2015:
Precious and the Zebra Necklace
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
Poetry
2020: In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems
Anthologies
2018: A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems , ed.
Other
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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