Dillon and Tomei for Bukowski film
30/04/2004 Matt Dillon and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei are to star in an adaptation of Charles Bukowski's acclaimed book 'Factotum'.

Knightley eyes Pride and Prejudice
29/04/2004 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star Keira Knightley is in final talks to star in an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic 'Pride and Prejudice'.

Acclaimed writer Hubert Selby Jr dies
28/04/2004 Hubert Selby Jr, the author of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' and 'Requiem for a Dream', has died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 75.

Atwood, Slovo on Orange shortlist
27/04/2004 Margaret Atwood and Gillian Slovo are among the nominees on the shortlist for this year's Orange literary prize.

Kingsley Fagin in Polanski's Twist
27/04/2004 Oscar winner Ben Kingsley is to play Fagin in Roman Polanski's adaptation of 'Oliver Twist'.

Sam Mendes to film Gulf War memoir
26/04/2004 'Road to Perdition' director Sam Mendes is to bring Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir 'Jarhead' to the big screen.

Auction of Joyce love letter
23/04/2004 A pulsating gusset-ripper letter from James Joyce to his lover, Nora Barnacle, has been discovered tucked into a book among an almost painfully personal collection of relics linked to the author.

Weir brings Gibson novel to screen
23/04/2004 'The Truman Show' helmer Peter Weir is set to direct an adaptation of William Gibson's book 'Pattern Recognition'.

Jackson eyes The Lovely Bones film
23/04/2004 It is reported that 'Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson is in talks to bring Alice Sebold's best-selling novel 'The Lovely Bones' to the big screen.

Iris Murdoch library bought by UK University
17/04/2004 Iris Murdoch's working library was saved for Britain last night by the fundraising zeal of one of the newer universities.

Julian Barnes, Jan Morris for Cúirt Festival
15/04/2004 Julian Barnes and Jan Morris are among the writers that will appear at the 19th Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway.

Crystal publishes first book
14/04/2004 Actor and comedian Billy Crystal has made his debut as a children's author with the publication of 'I Already Know I Love You'.

Dylan's love letter sells for $22k
14/04/2004 Dylan Thomas's earliest surviving love letter to his future wife, Caitlin Macnamara, sold for more than £12,000 yesterday - nearly four times its estimated value.

Sony buy rights to 9-11 book
14/04/2004 Sony Pictures have bought the film rights for a best-selling book at the centre of a national debate on America's security.

Beckham winner of British Book Award
08/04/2004 David Beckham was honoured by the British Book Awards last night for his book, 'My Side', which has become the fastest-selling autobiography of all time.

Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
07/04/2004 Edward P Jones won the fiction prize for The Known World, his novel about a black slave owner, while the prize for biography went to William Taubman's Khrushchev: The Man and His Era.

Oscar winner backs single mum's novel
05/04/2004 Anthony Minghella's romantic epics, The English Patient and Cold Mountain, are extraordinary stories told on a lavish scale. Both films were bestselling novels before they came to the big screen.

Beckham v Burrell in Book of the Year
02/04/2004 Soccer icon David Beckham is matched against Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, in the short-list for the coveted Book of the Year category at this year's British Book Awards.

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