'It is hard to think of a contemporary writer more genuinely engaging...(his) novels are also extremely funny: I find it impossible to think about them without smiling' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'A treasure of a writer whose books deserve immediate devouring' Marcel Berlins, Guardian

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of numerous novels, including the prize-winning No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has been an international bestseller and is in the course of being translated into over thirty languages. He lives in Edinburgh, and is married to an Edinburgh doctor.