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by Alexander McCall SmithThis article relates to The Full Cupboard of Life
Series Order
No news is
bad news for Mma Ramotswe fans; I can find no sign of any
further books in the series on the horizon; however, I do see
a follow up to
The Sunday Philosophy Club that
looks like it will be published later this year. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate appears to
be scheduled for release in the USA, Canada and UK in
the Fall of 2005
In addition
to all his other projects, McCall Smith also finds time to
play in the
Really Terrible Orchestra and write a
daily column for The Scotsman
newspaper titled 44 Scotland Street
- writing over 110,000 words in 6 months! Television and
movie rights based on the series have recently been sold to
Working Title Films (who produced Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City); and McCall Smith
began a second series of daily columns about 44 Scotland Street in October
2004.
He also
published an engaging collection of African folk tales in late
2004, 'The Girl Who Married A
Lion'. We read some of them and found them to be
interesting from an adult point of view (think of a cross
between Grimm and Aesop), but we stopped after about half a
dozen as they weren't resonating with the children, and some
of the stories were quite disturbing to the modern
sensibilities of children brought up on the sweetened fairy
tales of today - as opposed to my warped childhood on a diet
of Grimm and Lang!
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