we are a side that has shown a lot of character over the last 12, 18 months and i think that will hold us in good stead here. justin rose has won the world championships in shanghai — his first title since claiming a gold medal at the rio olympics last year. world number one dustinjohnson had been leading by six shots and was eight clear of rose after three rounds. but rose shot a five—under—par 67, which included eight birdies and three bogeys, to finish on m under. caroline wozniacki has won the the biggest title of her career at end of season world tour finals in singapore. she beat venus williams in straight sets. after wozniacki took the first set, she broke williams in the opening game of the second set on her way to a 5—0 lead. williams did fight back to win four games on the bounce, but wozniacki finally got over the line. elfyn evans won the wales rally gb and has become the first welshman to win the event. local boy evans, driving a m sport ford fiesta, is also the first british winner

since richard burns in 2000. french driver sebastien 0gier finished in third overall, which was enough for him to claim his fifth consecutive championship. let's give you a quick update on the mexican grand prix. sebastian vettel is eighth and lewis hamilton is 11. they crashed in the first lap. sebastian vettel needs to finish second to prevent hamilton winning a fourth world title. there is coverage on bbc radio 5 live. that is all from sports day and from me. have a very good evening. next, it is meet the author. rj palacio‘s book, wonder, is haunting.

here's a sentence from the first page. "my name is august. i won't describe what i look like. whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse". the story of this boy starts from there, and it's a journey that has enthralled readers around the world. welcome. the beginning of the book is startling, even horrifying. in that sense, you're saying to the reader, "do you have the guts to stay with the story?", aren't you? i wanted to whet their appetite. but at the same time, yes, sort of like, say, "are you with me?

are you in for this trip?" it is quite a journey. it's an emotionaljourney. it is quite an emotional journey, and i will get you to describe it in a moment, but what you are touching on with the idea of a deformity that is so awful that it cannot be described at the beginning of the book, you are touching on one of the deepest fears that people have about how they appear. i think in a lot of ways, craniofacial differences are tough for people because there is something about the face being that first line of public persona. it's your telegraph to the world. so if you have a craniofacial difference, you face a challenge unlike any other, in that that is how people perceive you. their first line ofjudgment is based on the face. and the boy, august, knows that this

is going to define him every day for the rest of his life? and yet he doesn't define himself as looking different. he's used to his face. he actually likes it in some ways. you know, he brushes his hair. he wants to looks as good as he can look, he's fine with it. he understands that other people might be curious and may react, but he doesn't mind that, it is more when people attach cruelty or people make assertions about his character, based on what he looks like, that's where he draws the line. you're saying in a way that this is a lesson in why we shouldn't make judgments? absolutely. you have to get to know a person before you make any sort of judgments. take us through the story. it's about a ten—year—old boy called augie pullman who born with a craniofacial situation that sets him apart. because of his surgery, he has been home—schooled his whole life. when he is 10 years old, the major surgeries are behind him

and it is time for him to go to a school and not be home schooled any more. so the book takes us from his point of view through his first year, 5th grade in the states, and then it switches point of view, it starts from augie's narrative but then it goes into the perspective of his sister and several of the other friends that he meets along the way in thatjourney throughout the first year in school. the way you write is very distinctive. very short chapters, like snapshots. it's a device that, i mean, it's quite natural because of the nature of the story, but it means that the whole story has the sense, almost as if you are turning a scrapbook with, you know, a different picture, a different situation on each page. that's a great way to put it.

i never thought of that. but they are like polaroid snapshots of his life. the chapters are short. one of the reasons for that is that my target audience is young. i know that kids like to keep it quick. this is a book that, because it's touching on a universal theme, as we mentioned, fear, misunderstanding, reluctance to look behind the outward appearance, these are things that affect everybody, whether you are in your seventies or whether you're 10. right. you don't have to look like auggie pullman to be able to relate to the sense of social isolation or remember your own childhood, the moments when a friend may have betrayed you. these are universal experiences. this is a book that makes you wonder, anybody wonder, it made me wonder, how did you get the idea?

what was the trigger for the story? i was with my young son, i have two children. i was with my youngest, three years old at the time. we found ourselves in close proximity to a little girl who had a severe craniofacial difference. my son was three years old. he started to cry when he saw her. quite a natural reaction. quite natural, but in my haste to shield herfrom seeing his reaction, i thought that the best thing at the time to do was to leave as quickly as i could. but i realised later that from her perspective or from the mom's, it may have looked like i was trying to shield my son. there's no easy way out. and that got me thinking about what it was like to face a world every day that doesn't quite know how to face you back. and yet as you point out with auggie, he lives with it every day, it's no big deal. he's learned to cope with it.

but you know that every time you meet somebody for the first time, there will be this reaction. you almost get used to saying "don't worry, i'm fine". right. and that's exactly his whole... everything he talks about. that's his theme. it's like "i am an ordinary kid, it's just the rest of the world that doesn't see me that way". how do you explain the reaction to the book? it's had a huge number of glowing reviews, but more obviously than that, it seems to grip people as a story. it's something they cannot stop reading. they're just fascinated by it. i suppose there's a sense of horror at imagining yourself in that position, despite his well—balanced personality? well, i think also, its a very optimistic view of humanity.

i think ultimately, as a parent, and that as i think a lot of people read it, they think that if a boy like auggie who has been met with such unkindness in his life can nevertheless manage to be kind to other people and find that humour and kindness, certainly " if he can do it, i can do it". we talked about the way that this book has come to appeal to people of all ages, but you've talked about your target as a reader, really, being a very young person. what do you find exciting about writing for young readers, perhaps readers not yet in their teens? i think that ten, 11, and i2—year—olds are very... i like writing about them and writing for them because it's a very tender moment in a person's life. it's a moment when they're transitioning between being very young and that point in your life when your parents are making all the decisions for you, who to play with, who to hang out with, what to eat, and your teachers in school are telling you who to sit with and all of that.

i like writing about it because i think it's an interesting moment, but the theme of the book is about kindness. it's about how, if you think about it, if your natural default to every situation in life is to try to be kind about it, you can never go wrong. so that's sort of the message of the book. try to be kind whatever you do, and you'll be ok. so that's really what i was trying to write about. rj palacio, author of wonder, thank you very much. thank you so much. it was a pleasure. i really appreciate it. it's been a relatively mild month so

far. the northerly wind is still strong enough to blow in a few showers off the north sea on to the eastern coasts overnight. 0therwise we will find high pressure building in across the uk. light wind, hardly a breath of wind, clear skies and frosty developing. those of the numbers in towns and cities but it is in rural areas that will have a widespread grass frost and also an air frost widespread grass frost and also an airfrost in other widespread grass frost and also an air frost in other places as well. colder start more widely monday morning. though showers should fade away from the coast of lincolnshire, norfolk and suffolk. instead we see these weak weather fronts increasing these weak weather fronts increasing the cloud into the and in two northern scotland. temperatures still only 8 degrees or so through the central belt into aberdeen. not much warmerfor northern the central belt into aberdeen. not much warmer for northern england and the midlands. cloud coming in here slowly in the afternoon and after

the cold start, it will limit the temperature rise to about 90 degrees. if you are lucky, temperatures 12 degrees in the south—east of england. it is here we have the risk of a frost continuing into the early part of monday night. milderairtake into the early part of monday night. milder air take some time to reach this part of the uk. 0n milder air take some time to reach this part of the uk. on tuesday we see these western south—westerly winds picking up a bit more. blowing in more cloud and a bit more rain around, particularly across the western side of scotland. much further south it is going to be dry. temperatures i2 further south it is going to be dry. temperatures 12 to 14 degrees. that is more like it for this time of year. on wednesday, rain across western scotland. but away from here there won't be much rain over the coming few days. sunnier skies and temperatures warmer towards the south—east once again. as we move into thursday, the weather from bringing the rain in the north, in move southwards and weakens as it does so and introduces cooler air and perhaps the risk of a touch of

grass frost by thursday morning. the cold est grass frost by thursday morning. the coldest weather will be right at the beginning of the week ahead. things turned milder around tuesday and wednesday with increasing cloud. little rain away from the northwest. this is bbc news. the headlines at eight. hundreds of thousands of people march through barcelona in a show of unity with spain and to protest against catalan independence. the prime minister calls for new measures to deal with complaints of sexual harassment against members of parliament. that's after an investigation is launched into the international trade minister mark garnier following his admission he asked his secretary to buy sex toys. heathrow airport says it's confident it remains safe, after details of security procedures were found on an unencrypted memory stick. could a collision on the first lap at the mexican grand prix delay lewis hamilton's world champion dream? in halfan

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