Emma Donoghue, the Irish novelist (who now resides in Canada), reads from her latest novel Frog Music, set in San Francisco during 1876. She also answers questions and talks about the difficulties of historical research, her academic training (as well as being a English Literature graduate, she is the daughter of noted academic and literary critic Prof. Denis Donoghue).

Donoghue, who achieved particular critical and commercial success with her novel Room (shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2010), talks freely about her creative process and her writing day - for example explaining why she uses Scrivener instead of Word, and how she started out writing Frog Music in chronological order, but decided for dramatic purposes to move the scenes around, aided by her software.