Books by Alexander McCall Smith
Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party
by Alexander McCall Smith
š Winner of the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
A gentle standalone comedy from the author of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, which has sold more than 25 million copies. InĀ Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party,Ā a good-natured American couple attempt to uncover their roots in rural Ireland, but suffer indignities at every turn. McCall Smith matches his comic invention with his trademark compassion.
Interviews where books by Alexander McCall Smith were recommended
The Funniest Books of the 21st Century
This year, to mark its 25th anniversary, the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction declared Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in UkrainianĀ to be their ‘winner of winners’, that is: the funniest book of the last twenty-five years. We asked comedian Tatty Macleod, one of the judges, about the process of sifting through their longlist of the previous winners.
