EmmaThompson's latestfilm project - a love triangle featuring the19thcenturypoetand critic John Ruskin - is reported to have been placed injeopardy byaNew Yorkcopyright case.
Thayil, apoet and librettist who has lived in Mumbai, Hong Kong and NewYork, has called his first novel - one of six books nominated for last year's Booker prize - "nightmarish".