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Hello, today I'll be talking to First Minister of Scotland, Nicholas Sturgeon, about her love of reading and exploring women in the wilderness.

But first, the German novelist and deputy editor-in-chief of de Spiegel, who's addressed his family's terrifying real-life experience of being stalked in his latest novel.

Dirk-Kerbyvite's fear focuses on an unhappily married couple, Rebecca and Randolph,

who moved to a new apartment with their two children,

only to find that lurking in the basement there really is a demon,

a mentally disturbed tenant who begins spying on them, sending letters, accusing the couple of child abuse,

and disturbing poems that culminate in sex and death.

Dirk joins me now on the line from Berlin, which is also the setting of the novel.

Hello, Derek. Hello. Now, your day job is, as a journalist the setting of the novel. Hello, Derek.

Hello.

Now, your day job is as a journalist, as I said in the introduction, with a gripping story like

this, what was it you felt you couldn't explore in a non-fiction account?

Well, at first I thought I had to write a book, a non-fiction book, immediately after these things had happened.

And then my publisher said, no, don't do this.

It would become a book of revenge and it wouldn't become a good book.

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