I have a number of tenets - if that's not too grand a word for it - according to which I read. These include that I don't read series books and I don't read crime. However, the best rules are made to be broken, aren't they? And so, I break mine for our family holiday tradition which is to … Continue reading Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday big tent wedding party (Review)

Alexander McCall Smith said at the literary event I attended recently that if he achieves nothing else in his life he is glad he introduced the concept "traditionally built" because it has brought such comfort to many women (particularly, he says with a twinkle in his eye, in America!). Tea time for the traditionally built … Continue reading Alexander McCall Smith, Tea time for the traditionally built