Edited by Don George and Samantha Forge. Lonely Planet, $15.99 trade paper (318p) ISBN 978-1-74360-360-4 From Cold War Yugoslavia to modern-day Yemen, Lonely Planet’s latest collection of nonfiction ...

Here we are with a promised recap of Sunday’s marvelous Trib Nation Author Talks program with Alexander McCall Smith at Elmhurst College. My colleagues Elizabeth Taylor, the Tribune’s literary editor, ...

In a letter to her niece about novel writing, Jane Austen once remarked: “You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life. Three or ...

Why are the novels so popular? The heroine of that series is a woman who is kind, understanding and intuitive. There is no crime in those books – Mma Ramotswe is, rather, a person who helps others ...

Alexander McCall Smith was a professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh when he published his debut novel, 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” in 1998, at age 50. Since then, McCall ...

Acclaimed author Alexander McCall Smith has discussed his contribution towards a project to bring the joys of literature to young refugees with the help of UNHCR. The novelist has become one of 18 ...

When writing or reading mysteries, my touchstone has always been a quote by early 20th century novelist Charles Chesnutt: “The greatest mystery is the human heart.” And while some would argue that ...

What do Botswana and Scotland have in common? The good fortune to be the settings for the novels of Alexander McCall Smith, who conjures his two homelands with immense charm and warmth. What books ...

Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features Bernie Gunther’s final appearance in Berlin and introduces a delightfully eccentric Swedish sleuth. By Marilyn Stasio Three books on the land, people and culture ...

ALBION, MI – Scottish mystery author Alexander McCall Smith will serve as the keynote speaker at Albion College's Elkin Isaac Student Research Symposium. Smith’s, whose best-known work is the “No. 1 ...