title: Confessions of a Serial Novelist
author:  Alexander McCall Smith 
description: ""One of the most entrancing literary treats of many a year. A tapestry of extraordinary nuance and richness."<br /><br />"The author's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision ..."<br /><br />"A quiet joy, a little gem of a book set apart from the genre by the quality of its writing, as well as by its exotic setting. It uses simple but tellingly descriptive language to introduce readers to its warm and appealing heroine."
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  ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
  
  “Utterly enchanting… . It is impossible to come away from an Alexander McCall
  Smith ‘mystery’ novel without a smile on the lips and warm fuzzies in the
  heart.” —Chicago Sun-Times
  
  “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
  
  “Pure joy… . The voice, the setting, the stories, the mysteries of human
  nature… . [McCall Smith’s] writing is accessible and the prose is beautiful.”  
  —Amy Tan  
  
  “Mr. Smith, a fine writer, paints his hometown of Edinburgh as indelibly as he
  captures the sunniness of Africa. We can almost feel the mists as we tread the
  cobblestones.” —The Dallas Morning News
  
  “Alexander McCall Smith has become one of those commodities, like oil or
  chocolate or money, where the supply is never sufficient to the demand… . [He]
  is prolific and habit-forming.”