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About Alexander McCall Smith

Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith (born 24 August 1948) is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up 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. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.

Alexander McCall Smith writes about Fiction, Large type books, Children's fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Juvenile fiction, and Fiction, humorous, general. Their best-known work is The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

On FindMyTBR we track 100 books by Alexander McCall Smith, 100 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Time of Love and Tartan (44 Scotland Street), Akimbo and the Crocodile Man (Akimbo), and Akimbo and the Elephants (Akimbo). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.