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NEWSNIGHT - Friday 4 September - 2230BST ON BBC TWO
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Presented by Kirsty Wark
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Remember April and the G20 and all that talk about saving the world's economy? Has anything really happened?

Today finance ministers from the Group of 20 richest nations are back in town to talk about global deals on ending the recession, and to look at plans to curb bankers' bonuses. But despite all the talk there is a danger of inertia.

Our Economics editor Paul Mason will be reporting on what is really going to be done to sort out the global finance system and whether the continuing focus on bonuses and bankers' pay is just a political sideshow.

And Kirsty Wark is at this moment at Number 11 Downing Street talking to the Chancellor Alistair Darling about all of this.

Our Political editor Michael Crick is out and about too.

He is in Buckingham - where the leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, has decided stand against the Commons Speaker John Bercow at the next General Election.

So can UKIP break through at a national election? How will the Tories cope with the dilemma Mr Farage has presented them with?

And as he claims that Mr Bercow was "embroiled in the expenses saga and presides over a Parliament that virtually does nothing", how much is the expenses saga still resonating with people?

We will see what Michael finds out on the ground and Mr Farage will be sprinting away from his from his party's annual conference in Southport to join us live from Liverpool.

AND NOW HERE IS KIRSTY TO TELL YOU WHAT IS COMING UP ON NEWSNIGHT REVIEW:

On Review authors Ian Rankin and Kate Mosse and the academic Sarah Churchwell join me to discuss some of the most anticipated novels from this autumn's bumper crop as the literary world waits for next week's Booker shortlist.

As the G20 finance ministers gather in London, author Sebastian Faulks also has the banking crisis on his mind.

He has been lauded for his historical fiction including Birdsong and Charlotte Grey, but in his latest novel A Week in December Faulkes plunges into a 21st Century nightmare of market meltdowns and venal hedge funders alongside the madness of reality shows, family dislocation, skunk and mental illness.

Is this the big British contemporary novel we've been waiting for?

Novels from two quiet men, JM Coetzee and William Trevor are the last books to be published that have made it onto the Booker long list.

Both are in the later stages of their careers, are they at the height of their powers?  And we will be asking what the Booker list tells us about contemporary fiction.

Plus, Audrey Niffenegger follows her blockbuster The Time Traveller's Wife with Her Fearful Symmetry, a spooky tale set in Highgate cemetery, whilst musician Nick Cave's second novel is a freewheeling, obscenity packed tale of the quiffed would-be ladies man Bunny Munro. Will either
entertain our panel?

Do join us at 1130.  

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