内容摘要："It's been a really good two weeks. We have seen a clear blueprint of how Harry Brook wants this cricket team to run.

"It's been a really good two weeks. We have seen a clear blueprint of how Harry Brook wants this cricket team to run.

"With rare and delicate skill, The Land in Winter opens up the lives of Bill and Rita, Eric and Irene in ways that will sing differently to each reader, and sing differently again on each re-reading."With prose as softly dazzling as the snow of the 1962/63 winter in which the novel is set, Andrew Miller takes his richly-deserved place amongst the Walter Scott Prize pantheon of great contemporary writers."

The Bristol-born writer said the characters in his novel "came walking slowly out of a blizzard"."I leaned quite heavily into the early married lives of my parents, and some of the people they knew, all of whom are long dead now," he said."One of the few advantages of getting older is that your own past becomes material for an historical novel."

The Walter Scott Prize is one of the UK's major literary awards.Along with Ms Grant this year's judging panel included art historian James Holloway, children's author Elizabeth Laird, broadcaster James Naughtie, writer and filmmaker Saira Shah, previous Young Walter Scott Prize winner Rosi Byard-Jones, and award-winning bookseller Rosamund de la Hey.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has apologised to the Spanish people after an escalating corruption scandal brought down a senior Socialist party colleague.

Sánchez, who has led Spain since 2018, said there was no such thing as "zero corruption", adding he was wrong to trust Santos Cerdán, the secretary of his party and close political colleague.But it was too late. He was declared dead on arrival at hospital - hit by 24 bullets, a post-mortem would later reveal. The 28-year-old rapper, one of modern-day Punjab's biggest cultural icons, had been gunned down in broad daylight.

A cousin and a friend who had been in the car with Moose Wala at the time of the ambush were injured, but survived.Six gunmen were eventually identified. They carried AK-47s and pistols. In the weeks that followed the murder, about 30 people were arrested and two of the suspected armed men were killed in what the Indian police described as "encounters".

Yet even with arrests piling up, the motive remained murky.Goldy Brar, who claims to have ordered the hit, wasn't in India at the time of the killing. He is believed to have been in Canada.