Brand new stand alone novel from best-selling Alexander McCall Smith, based on an immensely popular short story

'Refreshingly original... deliciously farcical'

'A gentle book, but also a gently radical one'

'This novel has the usual combination of light-hearted gentleness and forensic acuity, reminding the reader never to underestimate McCall Smith's fundamental seriousness of purpose'

'With a title like My Italian Bulldozer, you just know that people will pick it up to see what the heck it s all about. [One thing is] the idea of human warmth which is always at the heart of Sandy's writing'

'a series of laugh-out-loud adventures moving - quite literally - through the Tuscan countryside!'

'A fascinating, funny and totally enjoyable study of human quirkiness, as it only could be under the sun in Tuscany, penned by a master wordsmith'

Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world's most prolific and most popular authors. After the publication of his highly successful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty-five million copies, he devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world. These include the 44 Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in the Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series and the Corduroy Mansions novels.