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Alexander McCall Smith is to reprise his Corduroy Mansions project with the Daily Telegraph, with a dedicated iTunes page and second BBC series lined up.
Following the publication of the first Corduroy Mansions title on the Telegraph website in daily live updates and audio instalments, a new series of 100 parts will begin in September, continuing the stories of the original characters. For the first time, the instalments will be published in the paper’s weekend edition.
The first title, Corduroy Mansions, will be published as a Polygon hardback and a Little, Brown audiobook on 1st August, with the second lined up in both formats for June 2010 as The Dog Who Came In From the Cold.
The BBC and HBO have also commissioned a second six-part series of "The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency" to be broadcast in the UK around Easter 2010, with Jill Scott reprising her role as Mma Ramotswe.
The series will focus on stories from three of McCall Smith’s novels: Tears of the Giraffe; Morality for Beautiful Girls; and In the Company of Cheerful Ladies. Abacus will again publish tie-in titles.
A Meet the Author page for McCall Smith will be launched by iTunes in August. It will include a video of the author at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, an audiobooks store, and 20 pieces of music chosen by him.