Thursday 14 March at 7.00 p.m.

A.L. Kennedy’s latest book On Writing (Jonathan Cape) collects together her Guardian blog posts on the authorial craft and the script of her celebrated one-person show. ‘Kennedy's real talent’, wrote Carole Birch in the Guardian, ‘is in following her muse into the depths and reporting back from there with absolute honesty. Always a bold writer, she observes the world with a refreshingly skewed intelligence, and her well-known darkness, sometimes verging on morbidity, is always leavened with wit and humour. She also writes beautifully, sometimes producing the kind of sentences that stop you in your tracks and make you linger and savour.’ She will be at the shop to read from and discuss her work as novelist, essayist and stand-up comic.