ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH- VIRTUAL AUTHOR EVENT

Virtual Author Event
ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
in conversation with 
Daniel Goldin & Lisa Baudoin
Wednesday, January 27
2:00 p.m.
Via ZOOM

Registration is required (and free!) CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Readings from Oconomowaukee! Join us for our January installment, featuring author Alexander McCall Smith! He will be in discussion with Boswell's Daniel Goldin and Books & Company's Lisa Baudoin via Zoom. 

Purchase your copy of Pianos and Flowers for 20% off list price from either Boswell Book Company online here, by telephone, or web order, or from Books & Company right here.

Pictures capture moments in time, presenting the viewer with a window into another life. But a picture can go only so far. Who are the people in the image? What are their fears? What are their dreams? In the fourteen delightful tales in this collection, Alexander McCall Smith imagines the lives and loves of some of the everyday people pictured in these twentieth-century photographs. A young woman finds unexpected love while perusing Egyptian antiquities. A family is forever fractured when war comes to Penang, in colonial Malaysia. Iron Jelloid tablets help to reveal a young man's inner strength. And twin sisters discover that it's never too late to forge a new path--even when standing at the altar.

There are big stories behind these simple images. Though at first glance they may appear to represent small moments, these photographs in fact speak volumes, uncovering possibilities of love, friendship, and happiness. With his indomitable charm, Alexander McCall Smith takes us behind the lens to explore the hidden lives of those photographed; in so doing, he reveals the humanity in us all.

ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels and of 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. He lives in Scotland.