I talk about what I’ve taken from the books I’ve been reading recently, and my wish to be a bit funnier in the book I’m writing. Then - as usual - there are 15 minutes of sound for you to do your creative work to, and then I come back and sum up.

Books mentioned: The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell; The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger; and The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett.

Sound for the 15 minutes: wind in the cherry trees, with background cuckoo, sheep and farm traffic.

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