I present the playful theme tune from Corduroy Mansions, by Alexander McCall Smith, which I composed in September 2008. It's a jolly little song inspired by the main character William French and his fellow tennants.
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Corduroy Mansions is the first online novel by Alexander McCall Smith, author of the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The author is writing a chapter a day, starting from 15 September 2008, and the series will run for 20 weeks, totalling 100 episodes. The daily chapters are also available as an audio download each day. The chapters will be read by Andrew Sachs, who is best known as Manuel from Fawlty Towers.
The concept for Corduroy Mansions is based on Charles Dickens episodic writing which were novels serialised through journals in weekly or monthly instalments, in the 1800s. Alexander McCall Smith pursued this method of writing in 2004 with his novel 44 Scotland Street. The story was serialised in instalments every weekday through The Scotsman newspaper. As Corduroy Mansions is being released online, readers have the opportunity to interact with each other and the author himself, through online discussion boards.
The fans have argued that Alexander McCall Smith is the Dickens of the 21st century, or, as one visitor to the Dickens house in London has stated, that Dickens is the McCall Smith of the 19th century.
The story is set in a fictional housing unit in London nicknamed Corduroy Mansions, and details the lives of the inhabitants of the large Pimlico house.
The main characters are Barbara Ragg, Basil Wickramsinghe, Berthea Snark, Caroline Jarvis, Dee Binder, Eddie French, Freddie de la Hay, Jenny Hedge, Jo Partlin, Marcia Light, Oedipus Snark, Terence Moongrove, and William French.
The project is a collaboration between Telegraph Media Group, Little Brown Group and Polygon (the fiction imprint of Birlinn Ltd).
The Telegraph are also running an associated writing competition, where entrants are challenged to write their own story in 20 weeks. The entries will be judged by Sam Leith (editor), and the prize is lunch with the author himself, along with a signed copy of Corduroy Mansions.
click here for the Corduroy Mansions website - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/corduroymansionsbyalexandermcca/
click here for Alexander McCall Smith's website - http://www.alexandermccallsmith.co.uk/
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
1998 The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2000 Tears of the Giraffe
2001 Morality for Beautiful Girls
2002 The Kalahari Typing School for Men
2003 The Full Cupboard of Life
2004 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (also known as The Night-Time Dancer)
2006 Blue Shoes and Happiness
2007 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
2008 The Miracle at Speedy Motors
2009 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainments
2003 Portuguese Irregular Verbs
2003 The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
2003 At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
The Sunday Philosophy Club Series
also known as Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries
2004 The Sunday Philosophy Club
2005 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
2006 The Right Attitude to Rain
2007 The Careful Use of Compliments
2008 The Comfort of Saturdays (UK title) or The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (American title)
44 Scotland Street Series
2005 44 Scotland Street
2005 Espresso Tales
2006 Love over Scotland
2007 The World According to Bertie
2008 The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
Other novels
2008 La's Orchestra Saves the World
2008 Corduroy Mansions (published online daily in serial form at telegraph.co.uk; scheduled for printing as a book in 2009).
Short story collections
1991 Children of Wax: African Folk Tales
1995 Heavenly Date: And Other Flirtations
2004 The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa
Children's books
1984 The Perfect Hamburger
1988 Alix and the Tigers
1990 The Tin Dog
1991 Calculator Annie
1991 The Popcorn Pirates
1992 Akimbo and the Lions
1992 The Doughnut Ring
1993 Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
1994 Paddy and the Ratcatcher
1995 The Muscle Machine
1996 The Bubblegum Tree
1997 Bursting Balloons Mystery
1997 The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
1999 Chocolate Money Mystery
2000 Teacher Trouble
2005 Akimbo and the Elephants
2006 Dream Angus
2006 Akimbo and the Snakes
2008 Akimbo and the Baboons
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@KevAcoustics sorry that was aimed at Bonde666Dust.
KevAcoustics 1 year ago
@allthisfuss ROFLMFAO
KevAcoustics 1 year ago
Super!
PiotrKwiatkowski22 2 years ago
i ate a sour cookie today.
Bone666Dust 2 years ago
triffic music, and I love what your wearing ;p
allthisfuss 2 years ago
you're a great pianist at least it seems congratulations
epvideochannel 2 years ago
nice, i will try to read it :P
TomoeKikyo 3 years ago
Based on this tune, I can imagine that the novel is probably very fun to read.
CleverDjembe 3 years ago