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Tiny Tales

Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness

Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness

Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness

Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness

By Alexander McCall Smith
Illustrated by Iain McIntosh

By Alexander McCall Smith
Illustrated by Iain McIntosh

By Alexander McCall Smith

By Alexander McCall Smith

By Alexander McCall Smith
Illustrated by Iain McIntosh

By Alexander McCall Smith
Illustrated by Iain McIntosh

By Alexander McCall Smith
Illustrated by Iain McIntosh

By Alexander McCall Smith
Illustrated by Iain McIntosh

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    About Tiny Tales

    It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages; anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection from the acclaimed author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh.

    In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith’s longtime creative collaborator. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; and an aspiring opera singer who gets her unlikely break onstage. And, of course, we spend time in McCall Smith’s beloved Scotland, where we are introduced to progressive Vikings, a group of housemates with complex romantic entanglements, and a couple of globe-trotting dentists. These tales and illustrations depict the full scope of human experience and reveal the rich tapestry of life—painted in miniature.

    About Tiny Tales

    It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages; anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection from the acclaimed author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh.

    In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith’s longtime creative collaborator. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; and an aspiring opera singer who gets her unlikely break onstage. And, of course, we spend time in McCall Smith’s beloved Scotland, where we are introduced to progressive Vikings, a group of housemates with complex romantic entanglements, and a couple of globe-trotting dentists. These tales and illustrations depict the full scope of human experience and reveal the rich tapestry of life—painted in miniature.

    About Tiny Tales

    It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages; anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection from the acclaimed author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh.

    In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith’s longtime creative collaborator. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; and an aspiring opera singer who gets her unlikely break onstage. And, of course, we spend time in McCall Smith’s beloved Scotland, where we are introduced to progressive Vikings, a group of housemates with complex romantic entanglements, and a couple of globe-trotting dentists. These tales and illustrations depict the full scope of human experience and reveal the rich tapestry of life—painted in miniature.

    About Tiny Tales

    It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages; anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection from the acclaimed author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh.

    In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith’s longtime creative collaborator. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; and an aspiring opera singer who gets her unlikely break onstage. And, of course, we spend time in McCall Smith’s beloved Scotland, where we are introduced to progressive Vikings, a group of housemates with complex romantic entanglements, and a couple of globe-trotting dentists. These tales and illustrations depict the full scope of human experience and reveal the rich tapestry of life—painted in miniature.

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    About Alexander McCall Smith

    ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world…. More about Alexander McCall Smith

    About Alexander McCall Smith

    ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world…. More about Alexander McCall Smith

    About Alexander McCall Smith

    ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world…. More about Alexander McCall Smith

    About Alexander McCall Smith

    ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels and a number of other series and stand-alone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world…. More about Alexander McCall Smith

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 01, 2022 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593312971

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Large Print | $28.00
    Published by Random House Large Print
    Jun 08, 2021 | 336 Pages | 5-1/8 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780593501573

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $25.95
    Published by Pantheon
    May 04, 2021 | 240 Pages | 5-1/8 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780593316009

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Anchor
    May 04, 2021 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780593316016

    Praise

    Praise for Alexander McCall Smith’s Tiny Tales:

    “Whimsical. . . . Quirky and delightful.” —Booklist (starred review)


    Praise for Alexander McCall Smith: 

    “McCall Smith’s generous writing and dry humor, his gentleness and humanity, and his ability to evoke a place and a set of characters without caricature or condescension have endeared his books to readers.” —The New York Times

    “A virtuoso storyteller.” —The Scotsman

    “A writer who charms many readers . . . McCall Smith’s characters are well drawn and alive.” —The Providence Journal

    “McCall Smith’s accomplished novels [are] dependent on small gestures redolent with meaning and main characters blessed with pleasing personalities.” —Newsday

    Table Of Contents

    This book contains tales of:
      
    LOVE
    Descent 3
    Sister Angelica 6
    By post 12
    Takahashi Ichiro, passenger-pusher 16
    Amuse-bouche: Romance & relationships 23
     
    POPE RON
    The first adventure of Pope Ron 31
    The Pope goes swimming 35
    You the Pope? 37
    The Pope in the country 43
    Pope Ron & the book club 47
    Pope Ron’s friend 51
    Amuse-bouche: Larry Porker & his friends 63
     
    KINDNESS
    Jitan 71
    Edith van Twist, failed soprano 76
    Magnus Bjornbirgir, progressive Viking 81
    The handbag 87
    Amuse-bouche: Children & their parents 93
     
    POIGNANCY
    Housemates 101
    What happened three years later 105
    The mathematician 112
    Amuse-bouche: Life & its pitfalls 117
     
    MEETING IN LIFTS
    Mr. Nariman Sodawaterwalla meets Leila Commissariat on the eighth floor of the Cricket Hotel, Mumbai 125
    What happened to Phil Butters in the lift 132
    Amuse-bouche: Geoff’s cat, Stanley 137
     
    REVENGE
    On the way down 145
    Clarence Macphail 148
    Amuse-bouche: Life & its further pitfalls 153
     
    SCHOOL LIFE & AN EDUCATIONAL ONE
    In the swimming pool 161
    Boarding-school story 169
    The cure 174
    Amuse-bouche: Caesar & the world of Rome 181
     
    FRIENDSHIP
    Four dentists go on holiday 189
    Harry Brick 194
    Amuse-bouche: More cats 199
     
    STRANGENESS
    At the arachnophobia workshop 207
    Enlistment 212
    Lord Lucan, fugitive 216
    Little Piggish 222

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