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Alexander McCall Smith has written more than 60 books, including specialist academic titles, short story collections, and a number of immensely popular children’s books. But he is best known for his internationally acclaimed No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which rapidly rose to the top of bestseller lists throughout the world. The fifth novel in the series, The Full Cupboard of Life, received the Saga Award for Wit in the UK. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive is the eighth book in the series. The series has now been translated into 39 languages and has sold over 14 million copies worldwide. Another series, beginning with The Sunday Philosophy Club, about a female sleuth named Isabel Dalhousie, appeared in 2004 and immediately lept onto national bestseller lists, as did the second and third books, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate and The Right Attitude to Rain. The fourth Dalhousie mystery, The Careful Use of Compliments, is due August 2007. McCall Smith’s serial novel, 44 Scotland Street, was published in book form to great acclaim in 2005, followed by Espresso Tales.

In addition, McCall Smith’s delightful German professor series, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances were published in the US in January 2005. He is also the author of children’s books, including the Akimbo.

Some of Alexander McCall Smith’s other titles include:

• 44 Scotland Street
• Akimbo And The Crocodile Man
• Akimbo And The Elephants
• At The Villa Of Reduced Circumstances
• The Baboons Who Went This Way And That
• Blue Shoes And Happiness
• The Careful Use of Compliments
• Dream Angus
• Espresso Tales
• Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
• The Kalahari Typing School For Men
• The Miracle at Speedy Motors
• The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

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