i want to thank the man booker prize, the chair and the prizejudges for their booker prize, the chairchair and the prizejudges fortheirwork. i booker prize, the chair and the prize judges for their work. i would also like to thank all the critics who wrote about the book — all of them! and especially the book—sellers who sold it. when i had the first third briton, i got a little freaked out by reading what i had written, and i thought it had been a lot of fun but i wondered if any other human would understand it. my any other human would understand it. my wife wrote me a post—it note after reading it which gave me the confidence to go one. thank you, paula, precious friend, artistic era, my guide to the higher ground, even when i have to go there kicking and screaming. 0ur daughters have taught us through their kindness and dignity all there is to know about the deep spiritual rewards of parenting. as you might have noticed, we live in a strange time. the question at the heart of the matter i think is simple: do we respond to fear with exclusion and negative projection and violins, or

and the american author george saunders wins the man booker prize for his debut novel. it has become the world's factory production line, but now the chinese communist party is trying to reshape the country into an economy fit for entrepreneurs. can this man be simultaneously president and an international business owner? that question will be posed in a federal court today. in a speech formally opening the congress of the communist party of china, the party's leader, xijinping, has said his country has made great accomplishments in the last five years, despite challenges from a very weak global economy. president xi is still speaking, in a speech which has already lasted three hours. they are listening with great intent, and xi jinping they are listening with great intent, and xijinping has been speaking of a successful reorganisation of the chinese military to come, as well as the importance of taiwan, hong kong and macao remaining integral parts of china. the biggest applause came in response to his discussion of tackling corruption. translation: we need to work furth

and five novelists vie to win the man booker prize 2017.london's historic guildhall, where later this evening we will announce who has won the man booker prize. good evening and welcome to bbc news. britain faces the highest rate of terror attacks in the last 30 years, with some plots hatched in just days and 3,000 extremists currently being investigated. that's according to the head of mi5, andrew parker, who's given a rare interview and defended the service's record, after four terrorist attacks this year. 0ur security correspondent, frank gardner, reports. four terrorist attacks in britain, inspired by so—called islamic state, in the space of six months. most of the attackers were already known to mi5, the security service. today, its director general addressed journalists on the extent of the current threat. we've seen a dramatic up shift in threat this year. it's at the highest tempo i've seen in my 34—year career. i asked him why mi5 was unable to stop those attacks by known extremists. the likelihood is that sometimes attacks can hap

george saunders wins this year's man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo, becoming the seconds author to take home the £50,000 fiction award. anton newsnight we look at the debate raging in universities across the country about free speech — some stu d e nts the country about free speech — some students are keen to stop offensive views expressed on campus while others say people are offended fata easily. we will hear both sides of the argument. —— far too easily. good evening and welcome to bbc news. britain faces the highest rate of terror attacks in the last 30 years, with some plots hatched in just days and 3,000 extremists currently being investigated. that's according to the head of mi5, andrew parker, who's given a rare interview, and defended the service's record, after four terrorist attacks this year. 0ur security frank gardner reports. —— 0ur security correspondent frank gardner reports. four terrorist attacks in britain, inspired by so—called islamic state, in the space of six months. most of the attackers were already known to mi5, the security service. today, its

the us author george saunders has won this year's man booker prize, a british literary award.e won for his first full novel, lincoln in the bardo, which follows the us president's grief over the death of his son. now it is time for world business report. it has become the world's factory production line, but now the chinese communist party is trying to reshape the country into an economy fit for entrepreneurs. can this man be simultaneously president and an international business owner? that question will be posed in a federal court today. welcome to world business report. i'm jamie robertson. china is the world's second—biggest economy, and whilst it is still some way behind the united states, what happens there matters to all of us. the communist party congress is where the shape of china and its economy is set for the next five years. in the first half of this year, the economy grew by 6.9%. that is above the 6.5% government target, and the ruling party are keen to make sure that robust growth continues. when you couple that with population growth of 0.5%, it means living s

six authors are in the running for the prestigious man booker prize tonight — we‘ll be speaking to theyears. in the meantime chris is here with the weather. quite a change from the stormy weather yesterday. whipped up by those very strong winds that touched 90 miles an hour in west wales for example. but today has been a quieter day. we have seen some sunshine but overall scotland and northern ireland had a lot of cloud and showers. approaching band of rain coming into the south of england. some mist and fog patches forming on the hills. temperatures around 10 degrees for most. but close to frost in the countryside in the north of scotland overnight. tomorrow the rain quite patchy but there could be some heavy bursts at times. further north scotland and northern ireland having the best of the drier weather. but where we have the drier weather. but where we have the sunshine that is where the cold air is. thursday turning wet and windy towards the south west later in the day. this is bbc news — the headlines. inflation has reached 3% — its highest level in more than five years — largely

the 2017 man booker prize goes to..., a few hours ago, when the american writer george saunders won the prestigious man booker literary prize. he took the award for his work lincoln in the bardo, which uses the accounts of hundreds of narrators to weave a tale around the death of abraham lincoln's 11—year—old son willie. it's the author's first full length novel to be published. here's something you don't see every day. a calf here on the loose in the centre of brooklyn. it's not clear how the animal broke out but police were able to stop it from getting any further by bringing in a horse box to aid the rescue mission. the calf was unharmed, and has now been handed over to animal control, who are trying to reunite it with its owner. tens of thousands of pro—independence campaigners have taken to the streets of barcelona, to protest against the detention of two leading catalan politicians by the spanish authorities. the men are being held on suspicion of sedition — or planning to overthrow the state — after allegedly tryi

and, we'll be talking to this year's winner of the man booker prize — announced this evening.g up in sportsday on bbc news: could tottenham spring a surprise in spain against the holders real madrid? one of three english sides in champions league action tonight. good evening. prices are rising at a faster rate than at any time in the past five years, according to the latest official data. inflation, as measured by the consumer prices index, rose to 3% last month, driven up by increases in transport and food prices. the cost of living is rising faster than wages for millions of workers, but the state pension is now set to increase by a minimum of 3% next year. the governor of the bank of england, mark carney, says an interest rate rise may be necessary in the coming months, as our economics editor kamal ahmed reports. running almost to standstill. as prices have gone up, our wages have remained stagnant, making that incomes squeeze just that little bit harsher. over the last year, inflation has risen above the increase in our wages. making ends meet is becoming harder. the basi

will tell you who's won the sheriff's man booker prize. hello that heavy rain has been piling into north america recently some of the worst of it has been in the western parts of canada has some places have reported over one hundred thirty millimeters of rain from this system and it's not going anywhere in a great hurry so as we head through wednesday and into thursday we can expect to see some more heavy rain and snow here and a fair amount of wet weather sleeping its way down the coast as well so for more of us and northwest of pauls of the states we're going to see some heavy rain as well else weather generally quite quiet at the moment and relatively quite mild as well look at chicago up at twenty degrees on thursday for new york will get to around twenty one that's a seventy in the sunshine a bit further towards the south and there's lots of cloud here for some of us particularly over puerto rico so not really good news here and that rain's going to stick around as we head through the next few days as well so very heavy downpours here

, where the six authors short listed for one of the world's most important literary prizes, the man bookere waiting nervously to find out if they've won. we'll bring you the announcement of the winner live here on bbc news in the next hour. raqqa has fallen. the islamic state group has been driven from its de fa cto group has been driven from its de facto capital. this is in the north of syria and four months after the kurdish—led, us—backed syrian democratic forces began their offensive. it has now declared that the city has been completely liberated, with ongoing operations to comb and cleanse districts from the remnants of is. raqqa was the first major city to be captured by is in 2014. it became the headquarters of what it calls its caliphate. this map shows in more detail the territory that islamic state had at the beginning of 2015. all of this area marked in pink in syria and in iraq was controlled. millions of people were under is rule. but this dark red area is what is controls now. i should tell you the us military is more cautious about raqqa. it says 90% of raqqa has been reta

consolidating his grip on power and conventional writing style will tell you who's won the series of man booker prize. hello we begin in iraq where the army says its mission accomplished in the operation to take back curtis held territory in the north so it's now in control of areas around most of those nineveh province including the mosul down kurdish forces pulled out of several towns and oil fields as well in recent days forced by iraqi military advance the towns were seized by the kurdish peshmerga over the past three years. as part of the war against i saw all the offensive began on monday when iraqi troops moved into the contested city of kirk koch the prime minister. had ordered his forces to take back road is held areas lying outside the autonomous region charles start furred has more from erbil. iraq a government troops and shia militia on the outskirts of kirkuk less than twenty four hours off the kurdish peshmerga forces withdrew from the oil rich city no one predicted the ease and speed with which iraqi government forces could take control of the oil fields and most of the remaining

george saunders has been speaking about becoming the second american author to win the prestigious man bookernning book lincoln in the bardo, is his first full length nove, and deals with the grief of abraham lincoln following the death of his young son, in 1862. well, earlier my colleague annita mcveigh asked him how he made the transition from a short story writer into a novelist — particularly when he viewed the prospect of writing the book with trepidation. it was very scary. it's such a beautiful idea for a story and i didn't think i had the skills to do it so didn't think i had the skills to do itsoi didn't think i had the skills to do it so i delayed and delayed and i thought that some point you reach a crossroads where you either take a scary leap and try and fail or you end up repeating yourself in an artistic death so i thought at 55 a few more years so artistic death so i thought at 55 a few more years so i should keep myself alive as an artist rather than, you know? up untilthat point had been writing short stories so how was the transition, was that difficult to manage was the pr

the man booker prize winner will be announced.copter on a training exercise. the dog was in the water near the village of coming stunt on the coast in the scottish highlands. the helicopter kept watch until the moray inshore lifeboat arrived. the dog is believed to have been unharmed by his ordeal and is back with its owners, who say they are giving lots of treats. i thought it was kept that had more than one life! as we have heard, britain and ireland are bracing themselves for hurricane force winds in the next 2a hours. it comes 30 years to the day after the famous occasion when weatherman michael fish reassured the nation that there would not be a hurricane, despite rumours that one was on its way. they few hours later, southern england was hit by destructive winds of over 100 mph. the great storm of 1987 claimed 18 lives and caused some £2 billion worth of damage. peter gibbs reports on how the storm affected historic woodland in west sussex. as dawn broke, some 15 million trees lay flattened in southern england. at the nation

at the guildhall, in the city of london, within the past hour the winner of this year's man booker literary prize has been announced. the american novelist george saunders. our arts editor, will gompertz, is at guildhall with the winner. good evening. george saunders won for this book, lincoln in the bardo. it tells the story set in 1862 of young willie lincoln who dies of fever in that year and goes and gets buried into a crypt his fater visits him. his father is the president abraham him. his father is the president abra ham lincoln who him. his father is the president abraham lincoln who is grief—stricken. in the cemetery there are ghostly voices having a conversation that tells the story of this book. it sounds complicated and it's marvellous. with me is george saunders. congratulations. thank you so saunders. congratulations. thank you so much. you had a vision for this book 20 years ago. you are an established story writer, what took you so long? my stories are a little dark and cynical and sci—fi and i just couldn't see anyway to approach this serious material. i tried it a couple of

george saunders wins this year's man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo, becoming the secondion award.

american or her george saunders has won the prestigious man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo the book tells the story of abraham lincoln's grief after the death of his son saunders is the second american author ever to win the award worth more than fifty five thousand euros. us back forces in draka carrying not mopping up operations one day off they took the city from so-called islamic state they are removing landmines and clearing main roads they're expected to announce the formal liberation of the city later today syrian forces captured the former i s stronghold on tuesday off an intense four month campaign after an assault lasting for months they finally taste victory syrian fighters raise their flag in russia's main square. where near the main roundabout and we haven't seen any i asked fighters we haven't seen any near the stadium either i think the city will be fully cleared in the next two days. how do i feel i'm flying look at me i'm flying and i'm so happy. on the spot known as the round up out of hell over the past three years my ass used for public beheadings

most prestigious literary award has been won by an american writer george saunders to save the man booker prize for fiction for his novel lincoln in the bardo he is the second us author to win the prize katherine stansell reports from london. lincoln in the bardo. it was a book on the afterlife such in a washington graveyard during the american civil war that was bestowed with britain's top literary honor lincoln in the bardo sees u.s. president abraham lincoln trying to communicate to his dad eleven year old son who appears to be caught in a supernatural world between the living and the dead the story is told mostly in dialogue by dozens of spirits in the graveyard with a grief stricken lincoln at its center george saunders says the idea first came to him twenty years ago and he had some doubts about bringing it to life if i go in knowing what a story is supposed to be about it will just be that thing and disappoint everybody whereas if i kind of going from another daury which for me is usually you know the sound of the language or in this case a lot of the structural things were kind of

and the american author george saunders wins the man booker prize for his debut novel. y production line, but now the chinese communist party is trying to reshape the country into an economy fit for entrepreneurs. can this man be simultaneously president and an international business owner? that question will be posed in a federal court today.

still to come here al-jazeera find out who's won the man booker prize this year. and on the road to russia he's able to tell you which european teams are being drawn to good see each other in laos just coming up in sport. with . three triangle review. i don't mean. it's an easy going to. hello there the weather is all quite quiet over the southeastern parts of china at the moment generally the winds are flowing in from the sea that's bringing a few areas of cloud a few showers here particularly around the coast of vietnam and that's what we're really going to see as we head through wednesday and thursday as well further north you can see this area of cloud over some parts of china that's really going nowhere in a great hurry for some thursday so still want to more showers to be found here now bit further towards the south you can see quite a distinctive swell out towards the east that's a developing storm and it's going to going to be tracking its way northward over the next few days and it is only throwing the weather further towards the west as well so do expect

novels the remains of the day for which she won the man booker. it's was later adodopted foa film starring anthony hopkins and emma thompson. the authors a laser work includes never let me go on to the beverage giant. i certainly extremo* is books are so portents they always feature characters who were overcome by histor. by cruelty and who do nothing. who stay calm in the face of horror? but because of his discrete style. and the way he makes us understand the psychology of his characters and because of this lingering sweetness it works every time he's a great novelist. but also very accessible critics issued. issue group the one hundred and fourteenth winner of the nobel prize in literature has welcome to the awards us unlike inefficient honor. his win represents a return to form for the swedish academy after two years of more unconventional laureates. last year's choice singer songwriter bob dylan proved particularly controversial the rockstar initially failed to acknowledge the prestigious awards. but accepted the prize at a private ceremony i

an american also george saunders has won the prestigious man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo the book tells the story of abraham lincoln's grief for the death of his son saunders is the second american author ever to win the award worth more than fifty five thousand euros to syria now where residents of rock are taking stock of their devastated city a day after it was declared liberated from the so-called islamic state u.s. backed forces u.s. backed syrian forces took control of almost all the city from i os on tuesday the syrian city was the capital of the islamist groups supposed to caliphate after an assault lasting four months they finally taste victory syrian fighters raise their flag in rock as main square. it's almost over we near the main roundabout and we haven't seen any i-s. fighters we haven't seen any need the stadium either i think the city will be fully cleared in the next two days. but you know how do i feel i'm flying look at me i'm so happy. jubilation on the spot known as the round up out of hell over the past three years as used for public beheadings

mcgowan's claims that weinstein great term and american author george saunders has won the prestigious man booker prize for his novel lincoln in the bardo book tells the story of abraham lincoln's grief after the death of his son saunders is the second american author ever to win the award worth more than fifty five thousand euros. you're watching d.w. news still to come with their coach your pint kiss on the hot seat we look at help by and are preparing for their champions league clash with scotland celtic. that's coming up in just a bit first though helena is back with a look at the sputtering efforts to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement that hit another snag terry would you believe it there is talks between the u.s. canada and mexico nafta now the three parties are saying that there are still significant gaps left to wrangle any of us that have set the date for the next round of talks and that's not until the first quarter of twenty eight the u.s. is threatening to leave the table but that would create even more problems than it would solve it in that case the rules of the wo

the year's biggest literary prize, the man booker award, will be revealed next week.es here on bbc news. our look at the would—be prize winners continues today with emily fridlund discussing herfiction debut in which a young girl, growing up in an isolated community experiences a shocking coming of age. history of wolves takes the voice of an adult woman looking back on important events in her life. she is remembering when she became a baby—sitter for a family that moved in across the lake from where she lived. she sees or senses something is not quite right in that household, but does not allow herself to act for a long time, until it's too late. "it's not that i never think about paul, he comes to me occasionally, before i'm fully awake. though i almost never remember what he said or what i did or did not do to him. we are sitting in the nature centre on a late afternoon like any other, and his body moves automatically toward mine. not out of love or respect, but simply because he has not yet learned the etiquette of minding where his body stops and another begins.

the year's biggest literary prize the man booker award will be revealed next week.d titles here on bbc news. our look at the nominees continues today with george saunders discussing his debut novel lincoln in the bardo, about the us president's reaction to the death of his son william. the idea came from a story that i heard 20 years ago, and the story was that while lincoln was president, his beloved son willie died, and lincoln was so grief—stricken that he actually entered the crypt on several occasions and actually interacted with the body. an exceedingly tall and unkempt fellow was making his way toward us through the darkness. this was highly irregular. it was after hours. the front gate would be locked. the form of the book was actually a big problem. so finally i settled on a kind of greek chorus approach, where it is basically a series of hundreds of monologues that come from other ghosts in the graveyard, from historical sources both real and invented. here are some examples of actual historical quotes that i used. he was never handsome, indeed, but he gre

we will discuss ali smith's latest novel, nominated for the man booker award.nd we look at the top film releases in the film review. now, time for sportsday. here is what's coming up tonight: two years at anfield forjurgen klopp — what better way to gauge progress than a match against manchester united 7 strachan out, mackay in to run. scotla nd strachan out, mackay in to run. scotland have a quick spec —— a quick fix for the manager's job. the champions cup kicks off in rugby union tonight. good evening to you. lots coming up in the next half an hour to set you up in the next half an hour to set you up at the weekend. we will also have a detailed look at some big changes afoot for world cricket. the premier league is back tomorrow as well after the international break, and what a match to get things going ain! what a match to get things going again! a lunchtime kick—off at anfield — liverpool against manchester united. this week was also the two—year anniversary of jurgen klopp‘s arrival. he called himself a normal guy and described the club's history as a 20

the winner of the 2017 man booker prize forfiction is... lincoln in the bardot, george saunders.meaning for the present. as you might have noticed, we live in a strange time. i've noticed it. so the question at the heart of the matter is pretty simple — do we respond to fear with exclusion and negative projection and violence? 0r, negative projection and violence? or, do we take that great leap of faith and do our best to respond. lincoln in the bardo tells the story of the american president's grief at the death of his young son. set on a night, it explores mortality, grief and the possibilities of life. everyone knows and loves lincoln, so that was part of the reason why i waited. it makes you cringe a bit to think about somebody that large. he received a cheque for £50,000. all this for a book the judges discribed as utterly original and deeply moving. the world's first floating windfarm has started transmitting power to scotland. the windfarm has been officially opened by nicola sturgeon who said the project which will generate enough power for 20,000 homes was testament to s

just before we went on air, george saunders won the man booker prize for lincoln in the bardo, the storyg son, willy. please do not misunderstand. we have been mothers, fathers, husbands for many years, men who come here that first day, accompanied by crowds so vast and sorrowful, the damage offences beyond repair, young lives diverted here, a gentle quality stripped from us by that circumstance, who left behind husbands so tormented by the horror of those last moments, that they have never loved again. grandmothers, tolerant and frank, recipients of certain dark secrets, who by the quality of their own judging listening, run a tacit forgiveness. what i mean to say is, we have been considerable, have been loved, not lonely, not lost, not freakish, but wise, each in his or her own way, our departures cause pain. those who would love us sat upon their bed head and hands, lower their faces to table tops making animal noises, we have been loved, i say and remembering us, people would smile, briefly glad at the memory. we've got a raid in the forecast for tomorrow, certainly some rain about a

the year‘s biggest literary prize, the man booker award, will be revealed next week.s still in the middle of happening. when i started writing these books, i checked with my publisher if it might be possible to publish a book as close to it being finished as possible. as i‘m writing it, our world changed. the eu referendum happened and so, i went with it and the book to some extent is about that surface reaction and to some extent it is about a dimensionalising that seems to be more and more important. all across the country people felt it was the wrong thing. it was the right thing. all across the country people felt they really lost. felt they had really won. all across the country people felt they‘d done the right thing and other people had done the wrong thing. all across the country people looked up google "what is eu"? all across the country looked up google, "move to scotland". all across the country people looked up google "irish passport applications". the book is called autumn and it‘s about time and autumn and the movement of the year. the seasons remind us

this year's man booker prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, has gone to the americaners for his novel lincoln in the bardo. he's the second us author to take home the £50,000 prize. the book is based on the true story of abraham lincoln's grief following the death of his young son in 1862. the prize was presented in london last night by the duchess of cornwall. this is a happy birthday message, really. in 1907, edward vii was on the throne, lord baden powell was leading the first—ever scout camp, and a ruddy kipling was the poet laureate. it was also the amy johnson was born, 110 years ago today. she has lived through 25 prime ministers and five monarchs. she moved from jamaica to cumbria in the early 1960s and is now one of only four super centenarians in the united kingdom. as you can see, reaching the marleston caught her by surprise. this is her daughter telling her how old she is. 110. 110? thank god. oh, ho! thank you, god. it is 110. 110 on wednesday? yes. 0h, god. it is 110. 110 on wednesday? yes. oh, thank you, god! she is brilliant. you do start to forget yo

the year's biggest literary prize, the man booker award, will be revealed next week.uld—be prize winners continues today, with mohsin hamid discussing his latest novel exit west — whose central characters are a young couple living in the midst of a civil war. ina in a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. for many days. his name was said and her name was nadia. i started with the idea of this fear of migration. the fear of people who don't want migrants to come to their country and the fear of people who are suddenly pushed into migrate. when we migrate, we murderfrom our lives into migrate. when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind. for me in a way the novel is a love story. it's a story about a first love. and about two characters who are changing. and how it's possible to change and even drift apart without that being an occasion for violence or anger or deep conflict. all over the world people we re conflict. all over the wo

right you know that's right before it was a movie the novel the remains of the day won him the man booker prize that was back in one thousand nine hundred nine it's about an english butler who's been in love with a former colleague a married housekeeper for decades and he's trying to keep a lid on his feelings for her the movie stars anthony hopkins and emma thompson and the remains of the day isn't just about regret it's about the stories that we tell ourselves about our own lives and about our mechanisms of self preservation and those are huge themes throughout his work he looks at memory and at what we choose to forget or to overlook in order to survive now the other novel that got adapted into a movie as never let me go like most of his novels this is told from the first person it is a dystopian tale about school kids who come to understand that they've been cloned and brought. as organ donors and that their lives will not be very long he becomes to his heart was on the road to the end of the life that is going to consent to help and i haven't seen the movie but the both is a fantasti

a movie that many people don't even know it was a novel the remains of the day one ishiguro the man booker prize in one nine hundred eighty nine it's about an english butler who's in love with a former colleague a married housekeeper and for decades he's been trying to keep a lid on his feelings for her of course the movie stars anthony hopkins and emma thompson remains of the day isn't just about regret though it's about the stories we tell ourselves about our own lives and our mechanisms of self preservation and those are huge themes in his work he looks at memory and he also looks at what we choose to forget or to overlook in order to survive the other novel that he adapt that was adapted into a movie that i think we've also got a clip of that is called never let me go. and now like most of his novels this is a first person tale it's a dystopian tale about the school kids of the special school and they come to understand that they've been cloned and brought up apart from the rest of society as organ donors and that their lives will not only very long. do anything except keep. the life t

and five novelists vie to win the man booker prize 2017.

s most prestigious literary award george saunders receive the man booker prize for fiction for his novel lincoln in the bardo is the second u.s. author to take the prize since it became a wild wide award in two thousand and fourteen catherine stansell is at the london . lincoln in the bar. it was a book on the afterlife such in a washington graveyard during the american civil war that was bestowed with britain's top literary honor lincoln in the bardo sees u.s. president abraham lincoln trying to communicate to his dad eleven year old son who appears to be caught in a supernatural world between the living and the dead the story is told mostly in dialogue by dozens of spirits in the graveyard with a grief stricken lincoln at its center george saunders says the idea first came to him twenty years ago and he had some doubts about bringing it to life if i go in knowing what the story is supposed to be about it will just be that thing in disappoint everybody whereas if i kind of going from another daury which for me is usually my you know the sound of the language or in this case a lot of the

the year's biggest literary prize, the man booker award, will be revealed tomorrow. 3 21"— a fictional imagining of one man's life — going down four separate paths. such an interesting thought, ferguson said to himself. to imagine how things could be different for him even though he was the same. the same boy in a different house with a different tree. the same boy with different tree. the same boy with different parents. the same boy with the same parents, who didn't do the same things they do now. everything could be different. the world could be the same world and yet, if he hadn't fallen out of the tree, it would be a different world for him. when i was 14 at a summer camp in new york state i was on a hike with 20 other boys and we got stuck in a very violent electrical storm. and the boy right next to me was killed by lightning. i think it's changed everything for me. i felt i was an fairly solid ground until that moment and then i realise that anything could happen to anybody at anything could happen to anybody at any moment. the premise of four three two one i

he has been nominated for the man booker prize for times. 0ur arts correspondent is here, tell us what me, does it at another level, he has an ability to place the reader in an alternate reality, it might be the future, the present, the past, they just feel like places which are hall and real, he places you into these environments and takes you on these extraordinary journeys, environments and takes you on these extraordinaryjourneys, you talk about the remains of the day, never let the go, they are strange places, but you become deeply involved with the characters, which is the right‘s .com hejust does it the characters, which is the right‘s .com he just does it better than most. and it is a return to enmore, shall we say, traditional awarding of prize? it is not bob dylan! maybe paul mccartney is furious, who knows?! we were discussing it upstairs, would it be margaret atwood, and ishiguro, we went, there isa atwood, and ishiguro, we went, there is a story, because he is solid, central, what you would expect the nobel prize for literature committee to award this prestigious award to,

the year's biggest literary prize, the man booker award, will be revealed next week.dle of happening. when i started writing these books, i checked with my publisher if it might be possible to publish a book as close to it being finished as possible. as i'm writing it, our world changed. the eu referendum happened and so, i went with it and the book to some extent is about that surface reaction and to some extent it is about a dimensionalising that seems to be more and more important. all across the country people felt it was the wrong thing. it was the right thing. all across the country people felt they really lost. felt they had really won. all across the country people felt they'd done the right thing and other people had done the wrong thing. all across the country people looked up google "what is eu"? all across the country looked up google, "move to scotland". all across the country people looked up google "irish passport applications". the book is called autumn and it's about time and autumn and the movement of the year. the seasons remind us of the depth of o

this year's man booker prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, has gone to the american saunders for his novel lincoln in the bardo. he's the second us author to take home the £50,000 prize. the book is based on the true story of abraham lincoln's grief following the death of his young son in 1862. the prize was presented in london last night by the duchess of cornwall. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30am. let's get some sport now with hugh. it is looking good in the champions league. well, it was quite a night for three british clubs in the champions league. very good results indeed for spurs, manchester city and liverpool — they didn't all win but when you consider spurs had never even scored a goal against the 12—time european champions real madrid — their point away in the bernabeu looks all the better. spurs took the lead against the run of play really thanks to a raphael varane own goal before none other than the world's best player cristiano ronaldo stepped up to equalise from the penalty spot. a draw was a fair result. manchester city faced n

the year's biggest literary prize, the man booker award, will be revealed next week.mily on the margins of society in west yorkshire and they build a house for themselves on land they don't own which brings them into conflict with the local landowner. the father is a bare—knuckle boxer and it comes to a dramatic climax. "daddy and cathy and i lived in a small house that daddy built with materials from the land here about. he chose for us a small ash copse, two fields from the east coast mainline. far enough not to be seen, close enough to know the trains well." i've always seen it as a western. when i was writing it, i very much drew on those sorts of influences. the narrative arc is that of a western. many of the characters are the kinds of characters you'd find in that genre. i think i shocked a lot of people with some of the content, which is a shame because i think they were shocked because i'm, you know, a young woman and they didn't expect me to have an interest in, i don't know, violence. equally, i wanted to explore land and finding somewhere to live and i thi

the year‘5 biggest literary prize, the man booker award, will be revealed tomorrow.ery violent electrical storm. and the boy right next to me was killed by lightning. i think it changed everything for me. i felt i was an fairly solid ground until that moment and then i realise moment and then i realised that anything could happen to anybody at any moment. the premise of 4 3 21 is really quite simple. i set out to tell the story of a young man‘s life and then four different possible versions of that life. the backdrop of the book, the texture of the book, the time and the place. well, it is the american world of the 19605. the war in vietnam, the civil rights movement, and all the horrors and madness of those years. the very things i‘m talking about in the book that take place 50 years earlier are still happening in america today. here we have four genetically identical people. the four boys and yet due to circumstances, each one develops in a slightly different way. chances are factor that affects us all, but i think the term that i would use most happily would be th

it centers on her grandfather, booker wright, a man who knew how to survive and, in some sense, flourish in a caste system and in a system of ray is schism. racism. identified ased a racism. she was a producer in 2012 of an award-winning film, "booker's place: a m mississippi story." without further ado, we will invite kathy up here and then yvette. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i'm kathy farnell, and my memoir is about the nine years i spent in cloverdale school starting in 1958. i don't know how well you can see this, but the cover dividing the two parts, we've got a photograph ofof the hydrogen bob blowing upho and a photograph of school children hiegd under their desk from the hydrogen bomb. now, i would likeer to know, how much of your families had a fallout shelter? anybody? becauseer in 1958 fallout shelts were big business. in montgomery the normandale shopping center had a sidewalk sale of fallout shelters. it was like a boat she, only different. my mother and i were looking at these shelters, and some of them looked pretty interesting, but they were a quite expensive. so