Telegraph Media Group has signed writer Alexander McCall Smith to pen a serialised novel exclusively for Telegraph.co.uk.

The website will publish the first of 100 successive episodes of his new novel, Corduroy Mansions, on Monday.

In what is believed to be the first project of its kind on a UK website, the serialisation will include simultaneous daily podcast editions, narrated by Andrew Sachs, available to download through iTunes.

Edinburgh-based Alexander McCall Smith has published more than 60 books but is most famous for his series of novels that started with The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. It achieved global recognition in 1999, selling more than 20m copies and has been translated into 44 languages across the globe.

It was subsequently made into a film produced by the late Anthony Minghella.

"Over the last five years I have come to realise how enjoyable it is to write a daily serial novel for a newspaper. I am particularly pleased to be starting a new one for the Telegraph website. Corduroy Mansions will be written as it is published, giving readers the opportunity to influence what happens in the story. I can't wait to begin," said Alexander McCall Smith.

TMG is offering readers the chance to get involved in the creative process by writing their comments and suggestions on the Telegraph's website.

Readers can also enter a competition with their own serialised stories written as a blog on Telegraph.co.uk.

The venture is the result of a collaboration between Telegraph Media Group, Little, Brown Book Group and Polygon.

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