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Tiny tales / by Alexander McCall Smith ; with illustrations by Iain McIntosh.

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ISBN 9781846975370 (hardback)
Author McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author.
Title Tiny tales / by Alexander McCall Smith ; with illustrations by Iain McIntosh.
Publisher/Date Edinburgh : Polygon, 2020.
©2020
Pagination etc. 226 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Contents note Love / Descent -- Sister Angelica -- By post -- Takahashi Ichiro, passenger-pusher -- Amuse-bouche: Romance & relationships -- Pope Ron / The first adventures of Pope Ron -- The Pope goes swimming -- You the Pope? -- The Pope in the country -- Pope Ron & the book club -- Pope Ron's friend -- Amuse-bouche: Larry Porker & his friends -- Kindness / Jitan -- Edith van Twist, failed soprano -- Magnus Bjornbirgir, progressive Viking -- The handbag -- Amuse-bouche: Children & their parents -- Poignancy / Housemates -- What happened three years later -- The mathematician -- Amuse-bouche: Life & its pitfalls -- Meeting in lifts / Mr Nariman Sodawaterwalla meets Leila Commissariat on the eighth floor of the Cricket Hotel, Mumbai -- What happened to Phil Butters in the lift -- Amuse-bouche: Geoff's cat, Stanley -- Revenge / On the way down -- Clarence Macphail -- Amuse-bouche: Life & its further pitfalls -- School life & an educational one / In the swimming pool -- Boarding-school story -- The cure -- Amuse-bouche: Caesar & the world of Rome -- Friendship / Four dentists go on holiday -- Harry Brick -- Amuse-bouche: More cats -- Strangeness / At the arachnophobia workshop -- Enlistment -- Lord Lucan, fugitive -- Little Piggish.
Summary Note "Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences - or even a page or two - we may see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than occurs in many much longer narratives. In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness and happiness in thirty short stories that range in length from the short to the minuscule. The settings are as diverse as the characters - Scotland, England, Australia, the United States - combining to create a rich and surprising tableau. An Australian pope? A persuasive cosmetic surgeon? The world's laziest cat. A group of students living together and getting romantically entangled? All human and animal life is here - in miniature. These stories are inspired and accompanied by the thirty magnificent strip Tiny Tales created by McCall Smith and illustrated by the brilliant Iain McIntosh - each cartoon a little gem of observation."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Short stories, Scottish
Short stories.
Flash fiction.
Added Author McIntosh, Iain illustrator.
Shelf Location F MCCA
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