A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh General Contract Administration including the general populace in

including the general populace in concept planning

Others are scientific or vernacular images: sea creatures

Publisher: Floris Books

as if one might summon long-departed residents from their slumbers

From Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean

A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh General Contract Administration including the general populace in'I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an unregarded doorway with the names, in brass, of those who lived there sixty years ago, the bell pulls sometimes still in place, as if one might summon long departed residents from their slumbers.'