Multi-award-winning novelist A L Kennedy just finished the last of three marvellously funny monologues on The Writing Life, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Full of observations on subject ranging from a booktour disturbed by giant woodlice to some very creepy fans, the first two broadcasts are available to listen to for the next few days here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qplcy and here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qplk8