Were finishing earlier than normal on thursdays this month because next on thursdays this month because next on the bbc news channel is meet the author. Sometimes, an author makes a big demand of a reader. Nick harkaway does that in his novel gnomon an intricate, complicated story on a vast canvas, set in a future britain where were living in a surveillance state, although its one that most people seem to believe is fundamentally good. But this is, among many other things, a murder mystery. Somethings gone wrong and there is a fiendish puzzle, many fiendish puzzles, to be solved. Gnomon, after all, is the name for the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. Welcome. It is a tough challenge for a reader, this book. You even put a puzzle on the frontispiece, which is like an entry test for gchq. Something encrypted. Youre saying right from the beginning, look, i hope in a good way, but youre going to have to work at this . Yeah, absolutely. And its actually not the only puzzle in the book
Apparently, because within hours of that announcement, 98 of all rooms we re that announcement, 98 of all rooms were fully booked. I gather up prices have soared as high as £620 per night. I know i will be the reporting on it. From the point of view of viewers. Reporting on it. From the point of view of viewers. I will take a dawn train to windsor. They will wa nt dawn train to windsor. They will want this story, between now and the wedding itself, not just want this story, between now and the wedding itself, notjust the day itself, you are going to be overwhelmed with it. Im mostly reporting on brexit, which will not surprise you. But there is no doubt that we will be covering this as well. There is great interest in rural stories. And of course we a global channel. The express have this story, a free glossy calendar they have been upstaged its mid december they have been upstaged its middecember cant wait lets get to the story of the night. The result of the strictly come dancing. W
You even put a puzzle on the frontispiece, which is like an entry test for gchq. Something encrypted. Youre saying right from the beginning, look, i hope in a good way, but youre going to have to work at this . Yeah, absolutely. And its actually not the only puzzle in the book, its just the only one that announces itself right on the front page. How do you go about planning a book like this that is full of ambiguities, double meanings, people who come and go in terms of time . Its extraordinary complicated. Very difficult to plan in advance, i would have thought. Yeah. In fact it was impossible to plan in advance. I didnt really understand what i was getting into when i started it. I had a direction and then i sort of dived in. But what i have to keep doing was write a piece and then write around it and then go back and make sure it all married up. In a sense, it is not so much planned as it is layered or accreted, like a rock formation. And it was difficult, but also incredibly exciti
Vile regime for the longest time, and the way it treats its own population is something that we talk about, but really interesting that we have now got the telegraph and the International Development secretary saying, stop doing what you are doing in yemen. Some of our arms are being sold to saudi arabia. Children are starving, getting diseases we thought had been wiped out. Man made horror like this, actually, we avoided looking at this story for a long time, so i am impressed, actually, that the telegraph has run it. |j impressed, actually, that the telegraph has run it. I agree, they could be breaking International Law by blockading people, starving them of international aid. I totally agree with yasmin, this is an horrendous civil war going on in the yemen, part of the overall conflict between saudi arabia and iran to sort of control the middle east. The sunni shia conflict. Unfortunately for the two people of yemen, they just happen to be in the front line of horror. Poor people o
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