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Alexander McCall Smith’s Pictorial Book Covers

Hi Mairiuna!

First, let me tell you that I absolutely fell in love with Arnold Lobel’s illustration “Books to the Ceiling” that we can see inside your post: “First Steps in Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street… Very original rendering of a house full of books!

As we are both great book lovers, no wonder […]

September 4th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alexander McCall Smith, Authors | 3 comments

But who knows that Conan Doyle is a Scottish writer?

Sherlock Holmes Statue – Picardy Place – Edinburgh

Quite touching the idea of portraying Sherlock Holmes brooding over the death of his author… all the more since we know how, at one time, Conan Doyle got so tired of his character that he decided to ‘kill’ him. “I must save my mind for […]

June 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Authors | Leave a comment