Contents

Cover

About the Author

Books by Alexander McCall Smith

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

1: The Plight of Cats in South Australia

2: Angus Thinks about Freedom

3: Aberdeen

4: Ranald Braveheart Macpherson’s Book Club

5: Scotch Pies

6: Boyle’s Law and Business Growth

7: Schadenfreude

8: He Loved Him More Than Ice Cream

9: Bacon without Nitrites

10: An Inadvisable Home Construction Project

11: Merry Hart with Small Possessioun…

12: Olive’s Party

13: Olive Spells It Out

14: A Stendhal Syndrome Survivor

15: Garden Governance Issues

16: Wee Moupie

17: A Worrying Prospect

18: She Would Do Anything for Him

19: Bruce Reflects

20: At the Wally Dug

21: Where the Thickos Go

22: The Desperation of Dan

23: A Very Special Olive Oil

24: Bonnie Charlie’s Noo Awa…

25: The Reel of the 51st

26: Price on Application

27: Scottish Art and Goose Pimples

28: Do Angels Cook?

29: Time, Poetry, Triplets, Life

30: Weegie Dugs

31: A Gift from Glasgow

32: A Free Man Thinks

33: In Howe Street

34: Peppermint Tea

35: Spinach for Strength

36: Not Quite Scottish Enough

37: Men and Clothes

38: The Aphorist

39: The Contents of a Private Bag

40: Brogue Boots for Women, and Others

41: The Reading of Shoes

42: Questions About Bags

43: Unearned Happiness

44: Being Simpatico

45: A Gift of Kiwis

46: An Upsetting Discovery

47: Poor Fellow

48: On Being Escalated

49: Constructive Mistruths

50: Portuguese Shoes

51: Nepalese Momos

52: An Albanian Story

53: Innocents at Play

54: A Matter of Mis-speaking

55: Für Elise

56: Cryptological Anthropology

57: Youth Passes

58: Agas etc.

59: Temptation

60: Something Happens…At Last

61: Angels and Metaphor

62: A Borrowed Morgan

63: Engine Capacity

64: Here Comes the Sun

65: Never Gush

66: The Lost Art of Gentlemanliness

67: Bruce in Conversation

68: On the 23 Bus

69: Angus Says Something

70: Big Lou Gets an Offer

71: The Duke of Johannesburg Aloft

72: A Subtle Love Affair