Berwick Literary Festival and The Maltings present a Feast on Scotland Street.

Join Alexander McCall Smith and Anna Marshall as they discuss their writing and immerse yourself in New Town Edinburgh and the latest goings-on of its much-loved residents. Enjoy a memorable afternoon with a writer, as one reviewer said, ‘whose optimism and grace give you hope for the world’.

Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and popular authors, whose The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency alone has sold 25 million copies in English and been translated into 46 languages.

A Feast on Scotland Street provides an insight into The Stellar Debut of Galactica McFee, the 17th volume of 44 Scotland Street (the world’s longest-running serial novel) due in November 2023, and catch up with Edinburgh’s favourite family. Then don’t swipe left or right: in an antidote to online dating Alexander will take us into the new world of The Perfect Passion Company, a match-making agency that offers more than a little fun!  All (or some) will be revealed of The Extraordinary Life of Bartholomew Poon and be prepared for Alexander to stray into poetry, memoirs of a lost world, and perhaps even opera and his libretto for Okavango Macbeth.

Anna Marshall has been Alexander’s publicist for 13 years and has a deep knowledge of the Scotland Street series and its characters. Anna’s The 44 Scotland Street Cookbook gives fans the chance to eat like their favourite characters, enjoying Bertie’s much-loved Panforte di Siena, Angus Lordie’s cheese scones, and Big Lou’s ‘off the record’ bacon rolls. With over 70 recipes from the series, the Cookbook is the ultimate culinary companion, written in Anna’s Borders farmhouse kitchen.

A Feast on Scotland Street also features an interview, Q&A and post-show book signing.