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Meet the Author

06/11/2014

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC NewsLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

Nick Higham talks to Alexander McCall Smith, best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The author talks about his reworking of Jane Austen's classic, Emma. McCall Smith's work is the third instalment of a six-book series of Austen rewrites, following Joanna Trollope's version of Sense and Sensibility and Scottish crime writer Val McDermid's interpretation of Northanger Abbey. Show less

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