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Doing the dishes with Bertie

Get your Bertie tea towel here!

Edinburgh's Context Interiors - both in the flesh and online - are the sole stockist of this and other items inspired by Iain McIntosh's illustrations for Alexander McCall Smith's very popular 44 Scotland Street books.

If you're a fan of those books and of his Isabel Dalhousie series (Mr. C. makes another appearance as himself in the latest one, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth), you may like to see this short film of the author touring some of the books' locations.

23 October 2011 in Books, Edinburgh, General | Permalink

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Thank- you so much for this!
McCall Smith was a speaker at our public library this past spring. What a delight he was! Wearing a kilt and recounting wonderful off-the-cuff stories for us!

Posted by: lila rostenberg | 24 October 2011 at 12:13 AM

Thank you so much for the link. The tea towel is a perfect present for someone I know.

Posted by: Barbara | 24 October 2011 at 08:33 AM

You are a genius! I've been looking for a good present for a friend and she is a great fan of AMS and 44 Scotland Street in particular.

Posted by: Georgina | 24 October 2011 at 03:19 PM

He is indeed delightful!

Posted by: Cornflower | 24 October 2011 at 04:37 PM

Glad to have been of assistance

Posted by: Cornflower | 24 October 2011 at 04:42 PM

Lucky that I heard about the tea towels just the other day. I must get one for myself!

Posted by: Cornflower | 24 October 2011 at 04:43 PM

Mr C? Has he appeared before? How have I missed this?? I am an enormous fan of all of Mr McCall's work and especially love the Isabel Dalhousie books. I am glad that he is such a prolific author and save his books to read in between, well almost everything else. I know that I will get wit, gentle pace and colourful characters.

Posted by: Rebecca | 28 October 2011 at 07:32 PM

Yes, Mr. C. first appeared in The Careful Use of Compliments.
It'll go to his head ....

Posted by: Cornflower | 02 November 2011 at 05:17 PM

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