This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020, 2021 by Alexander McCall Smith

Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Iain McIntosh

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Polygon Books, an imprint of Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, in 2020.

Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: McCall Smith, Alexander, [date] author. | McIntosh, Iain, illustrator.

Title: In a time of distance : and other poems / Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrated by Iain McIntosh.

Description: First American edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2022

Identifiers: LCCN 2021026982 (print) | LCCN 2021026983 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593315989 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593315996 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: McCall Smith, Alexander, [date]—Travel—Poetry. | LCGFT: Poetry.

Classification: LCC PR6063.C326 I5 2022 (print) | LCC PR6063.C326 (ebook) | DDC 821/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2021026982

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2021026983

Ebook ISBN 9780593315996

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Cover images by Iain McIntosh

Cover design by Abigail Salvesen

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