Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) is posting a new novel online at The Telegraph, five chapters per week. He's posted about 63 chapters and will continue through Feb. 13. You can read the chapters online, listen to them (mp3) or receive e-mails.

To add a bit of spice, the reader for the mp3s is Andrew Sachs who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers.