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AL Kennedy

June 2011

  • Harris hawk

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Seeing with a raptor's eye

    AL Kennedy: The focus and passion of these birds' gaze is a fine inspiration for any writer

May 2011

  • A man's hand writing

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Writing for love

    AL Kennedy: I'm lucky enough to get paid for it, but the pleasures and rewards of putting words together can and should be shared by all

April 2011

  • Doctor takes patients blood pressure-detail

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Rewriting wrongs

  • cheque

    AL Kennedy on writing
    And now there's a book out there with your name on it. Imagine that

February 2011

  • Glasgow University

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Keep the books safe

    AL Kennedy: As my decorator attempts to repair the disintegrating fabric of my flat, rather more alarming signs of collapse are besetting education

January 2011

  • Martin Amis

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Making my mark at book signings

  • Sherlock Holmes

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Waiting for book 'go'

December 2010

  • Asleep on laptop keyboard

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Nearly done with novel, nearly done in

    The home straight of my novel is in sight, but I'm tired, tired, tired and the news is doing nothing to restore my energies

November 2010

  • Frost patterns

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Cold comfort

    Re-writing in a frigid flat is no fun, but at least I had the consolation of higher education to keep my intellectual circulation going

October 2010

  • North by Northwest

    AL Kennedy on writing
    A happy ending to my American tour

  • Amtrak train

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Typing on trains

July 2010

  • Summer Reading

    Let's get together: summer reading recommendations

    Summer reading: as the coalition government settles in, we asked writers and politicians, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to David Miliband to Sarah Waters, to recommend two books – unlikely bedfellows or easy companions – to take on holiday this summer

April 2010

  • Autograph collectors

    AL Kennedy on writing
    The perils of meeting your favourite writers

  • No vacancies

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Rooms not of one's own

March 2010

  • Thermometer

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Taking the temperature of work in progress

    AL Kennedy: Novel-writing is curiously similar to long-term illness. But I will refuse any offers of help

February 2010

  • Katie Price book signing - London

    The debate
    double quotation markThis week's question: Is there a place on the bookshelf for celebrity novels?

    AL Kennedy, Martine McCutcheon and John Sutherland
  • Drafting a piece of writing

    AL Kennedy on writing
    New novel going terribly, thank goodness

January 2010

  • Lonely woman

    AL Kennedy on writing
    The writer's friends, imaginary and otherwise

    AL Kennedy: Without other people it would be, in very many ways, impossible to write

December 2009

  • Detail of draft chapter from Joyce's manuscript of Ulysses

    AL Kennedy on writing
    Second thoughts on rewriting

  • George Khan and Lee Evans in Funny Bones

    AL Kennedy on Funny Bones

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