It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages;
anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this
collection from the acclaimed author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency series: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise
and delight, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh.
In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition,
kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty
witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith's longtime
creative collaborator. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes
to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a
psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; and an aspiring
opera singer who gets her unlikely break onstage. And, of course, we
spend time in McCall Smith's beloved Scotland, where we are introduced
to progressive Vikings, a group of housemates with complex romantic
entanglements, and a couple of globe-trotting dentists. These tales and
illustrations depict the full scope of human experience and reveal the
rich tapestry of life--painted in miniature.