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American author George Saunders has been handed this year's Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel.

A 29-year-old debut novelist has been shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize for a book she began writing on her mobile phone on her way to work.

Linda, 15, lives with her mum and dad — at least she thinks they’re her mum and dad — in the rundown cabins of an abandoned commune, in the icy, forested, lakeside wilds of northern Minnesota.