just looking ahead to this even, what do we have in store tonight? plenty for british fans to look forward to this evening because it is the final of the men's team 44 100 metres. that meansjohnny peacock, the man who lit up the stadium five years ago in london 2012, he won another paralympic gold in rio last year. however, he missed the last championships two years ago through injury so ya something of a point to prove this evening. his biggest rival the american richard brown is not here, here is the world record—holder, but still plenty of competition. he will be looking out for the american jared wallace. competition. he will be looking out for the americanjared wallace. the heat sarath ten past seven in the finaljust heat sarath ten past seven in the final just before heat sarath ten past seven in the finaljust before nine p:m.. but also keep an eye out for 17—year—old maria lyle. she won a bronze medal

in the 200 metres in rio last year and will be hoping for another medal in the final the 20 metres this evening. that's all this board for now. you can keep up—to—date on the website. joe hart set to complete a move to west ham. more for you in wimbledon sportsday next hour. there isn't a single full stop in mike mccormack‘s novel, solar bones. the story is a monologue that reads like a string of thoughts — sometimes poetic, sometimes rough, often disturbing. and they tell us about one man in one hour, on one day — all souls' day — in rural ireland. his hopes and his disappointments, his fears and loves. a character is revealed and so is the world in which he has to live.

this is a adventurous storytelling by a master craftsman. welcome. it's quite a bold thing to do, to write a novel of more than 250 pages in paperback in one sentence. it is, but you write the book that presents themselves to you and that's the way the book, the way solar bones presented itself to me. you mean in its content, in the thoughts that you were dealing with, and not as a conscious matter of form — itjust seemed that was the way you should write it down? very early on in the composition of the book, i realised that the narrator was the sort of person he was, and that he would speak in a continuous rolling rhythm. and once i had got that in my mind,

it became second nature. and it recalled one of the exercises i had set myself years ago as a writer, was to come in every morning and sit down at my desk and write whatever it was that came into my head. and to...the only strictures i put on it was that it had to transition neatly from what i had done the day before and that it had to sustain rolling rhythm. and so when i realised the book was going to be written in a continuous ongoing rhythm, i recalled that exercise. there is a naturalfeeling, i think, most readers will have, of a kind of joycean inheritance here. it would be hard to think that you didn't havejoyce somewhere in your head when you were producing a book of this kind. people have spoken about the book as a stream of consciousness novel and i would dispute that. it doesn't have that kind

of telegraphic staccato rhythms that you associate with stream of consciousness. it's much more an attempt to write something continuous, ongoing and rolling. however, as an irish writer, i've always been conscious of the fact that our great writers are experimental writers and i wanted to... i've always admired their recklessness, and courage and the generosity of those writers. so i would like as a writer to think that you had a part of that yourself, so that was where i took my... recklessness is a very good word. yeah! and of course you're writing not just about an individual whose thoughts are happy and sad and confused, and sometimes crystal clear, and whose emotions are laid bare, you are writing about ireland. yes. and you are writing about a feeling of a country coming out of, really an economic catastrophe. which has impacted on people's lives in a very direct way so it's a very contemporary novel in that sense.

it is, and again that was... you never set out to, i didn't set out to write a novel of the crash or post crash. basically what i set out to do was to capture the mind and life of this one man, this engineer. and as an engineer, as a civil engineer, that puts him at a nexus of a whole series of forces — politics, economics, all sorts of social movements and everything like that. even civic catastrophes like contamination of water systems and everything. the allure for me about marcus conway is that he's an engineer and engineers make the world. god gave us heaven and earth and then he hands it over to engineers. and engineers make the world, and i was interested in seeing this man, who has this complete involvement with the world he makes, and that. so that was what i found attractive about him. well, you talk about the engineering, you also dropped in god there,

and of course the book unfolds on all souls' day, the idea that there are these souls drifting around all over the place. it begins with the tolling of the angelus bell and that bell seems to toll right through the book. i mean, you talk of its rhythmic character and the way it rolls on, and i suppose the sound of that as a kind of call to prayer, it really goes right through the book from beginning to end, doesn't it? the book is an hour long and it's suspended between two temporal markers. one is the divine marker at 12 o'clock and the other is the temporal marker for the one o'clock news at one o'clock, so the book is spanned between... it's an hour—long but in that hour he gets, he's inundated with a cascade of memories of his whole life. he's a soul who's susceptible to that kind of thing. and he himself remarks about that hour in the middle of the day. he always found it a soft, strange hour in which the morning's

best energies are gone and it's too early to sit down for the dinner, and the one o'clock news hasn't happened yet so it's betwixt and between and it seems to be susceptible to people like him. there's a fatalism running through the book too, a sense that things aren't random, that they appear to be random but... and he talks about putting one foot in front of the other and just carrying on. we're doomed to go through this journey in a very deliberate and inevitable way, aren't we? yes. i don't know if it's fatalism. endurance is his own... is a nobility in itself and a heroism in itself and the book is... the book is a hymn to the everyday in many senses, and it's a hymn to a world that he has put his faith in, not only has he built but he's put his faith in. i think the longer i've dwelt on it after i've written it, the more it has kind of revealed itself to me as a book about faith. he went looking for god

at an early stage in his life, and god effectively gave him two fingers and told him to go away and not be annoying him and that. and he turned from god and he became an engineer. and as his son says, his son puts it, he says, you turned from the cross and you took up the theodolite, and the cross hairs of a theodolite. you laid that on the world and that. so it's a book about faith and a book about the everyday. it's a hymn to engineers and engineering. you talk about the experimental tradition in so much irish writing. you think of beckett, for example. yes. and that sort of heartbeat in his dramatic prose is the kind of thing you sense in your writing. you feel it the whole time. it was very much... the heartbeat and the idea of a pulse was very much a concern with me in the book, and i don't know whether i managed to capture it or not

but it was certainly one of the things i aspired to. of course being steeped in beckett as well, you assimilate these things by osmosis and they become a part of your fabric as a writer, as an irish writer. you talk about being an irish writer. do you ever find that term, it's a bit weighty and a bit imprisoning? no, i certainly don't. i've always considered myself to be an irish writer, whatever that means, but for me it meant tapping into that reckless and generous tradition of experiment that distinguishes our greatest writers. our greatest writers were unusual, i think, in that our greatest writers, our greatest fiction writers are exclusively our experimental writers. beckett and joyce and flann o'brien, the father, son and holy ghost, that's our mount rushmore. and if you're talking

about any other writers, you've lowered your eyesight, you've lowered your gaze from those three. so i wanted to take my cue from their experimental tradition and did it tentatively in notes from a coma, my prior novel, but i think grabbed it a bit more two—handedly in solar bones. mike mccormack, thank you very much for talking about solar bones. thank you. the rest of england and wales we have at showers heading south, and still this evening in parts of south—east england before clearing away. overnight, clothes are operate the rain in scotland with a brisk

wind. elsewhere clear skies and the cool night to come. kalou than this away from towns and city centres. ford mondeo jooste away from towns and city centres. ford mondeojooste this is the main story, high—pressure settling things down, offering sunshine, and bridges heading up. this is the picture on monday morning. it looks cool but don't be fooled because temperatures will head up quickly in the sunshine. and light winds for most areas. as we head north winds pick up, especially in the north of scotland. much of scotland will be dry or the northern isles will keep cloud. i brexit women showers holding temperatures down. elsewhere again after that. the sunshine will boost temperatures quickly and widely by the afternoon, heading into the mid—20s. the sun will be hazy across southern parts. inter

monday evening, the fine weather will continue. a lovely into the day. we're watching the picture for tuesday. for most of us it will be fine and quite hard. humidity building across southern parts. but we're watching this weather disturbance heading our way by the end of tuesday with the threat of thundery weather. hot conditions for many of us on tuesday. part of western and northern scotland could see temperatures in the upper 20s. in the far south and south—west we get thundery showers by the end of tuesday. tuesday into wednesday the good marriage and move north. so to that on wednesday for the thunderstorms could break out. the heat coming down by the end of wednesday as the storms move through and cooler and fresher for all from thursday onwards with sunshine and showers. this is bbc news.

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