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By the end of 2005 Alexander McCall Smith will have published 10, yes 10, books in the USA during the year.
alone:
In The Company of Cheerful Ladies: A hardcover of the 5th volume in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series (April) plus a paperback version of #4, The Full Cupboard of Life (January), and 2 reprints of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency in late Summer/Fall.
(He plans an eight book cap on this series).
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (the second in The Sunday Philosophy Club series - hardcover) in September, and a The Sunday Philosophy Club itself in paperback now.
(He has a four book deal for this series).
The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainments - a series of 3 books originally self published in Britain in 1996, starring Von Igelfeld
of the Institute of Romance Philology.
44 Scotland Street (June) - a paperback original compiling the first 110 episodes of his 1,000 word a day 'daily novel' published in The Scotsman
newspaper, starting in January 2004. He recently finished a second series of 105 daily episodes (September 04 - March 05) which will be published in one volume at a later date, and is hinting that he maybe up for a third series.
Two books for children (Akimbo and the Elephants and Akimbo and the Lions).
This article relates to The Sunday Philosophy Club.
It first ran in the July 20, 2005
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