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This Morning

23rd September 2022

This morning I attended a book reading by the author Alexander McCall Smith. I have never read any of his books previously but as he is a well-known author I decided to go along. I must admit I do not really read many books written by male authors but he was amusing, giving many anecdotes and stories of many comical characters in his books. For example, Bruce the narcissistic surveyor who went to stay in an abbey and decide to hand in all his clothes and other items contained in a suitcase which included his laptop and phone. I would be really interested to find which book this story can be found in. It happened that one of the monks was very good with computers and he was called would you believe Mac…

Norma Gourlay

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