Glowing in the Dark. Three short stories that celebrate the beauty of cultural differences

He has also written three novels in the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, five in the 44 Scotland Street series, and three short-story collections, all of which are told with a gentle charm that cannot help but captivate readers. He has also written nineteen childrenБЂ™s books. Professor McCall Smith lives in Edinburgh with his wife, a doctor; they have two daughters. PRECIOUS RAMOTSWE BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH 1 My entire childhood and youth were spent in Africa, in a bewitchingly beautiful but somewhat unhappy country then called Southern Rhodesia. The rest of my life, the greater part of it, has been spent in Scotland. I consider myself a Scot who has had one foot in Africa, which is a continent I love. Most people who have lived for any time in Africa are affected by it profoundly. It is a part of the world with which it appears to be very easy to fall in love. It claims the heart, and often breaks it-again and again. That is why I write about it. 2 In 1980, I went to work for six months in Swaziland, a small country sandwiched between Mozambique and South Africa ...»