Seamus Heaney to do public interview
25/03/2004 RTÉ Radio 1's Rattlebag will hold a public interview with Seamus Heaney at the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire on Tuesday 30 March.

Elvis Costello signs two-book deal
24/03/2004 Elvis Costello has signed a two book deal with publisher Simon & Schuster.

Amis' London Fields to hit big screen
22/03/2004 Canadian director David Cronenberg is bringing Martin Amis' acclaimed book 'London Fields' to the big screen.

Rowling wins adult prize
18/03/2004 JK Rowling conquered a new field on Tuesday night by winning her first prize as an adult author. She triumphed by public vote in the £5,000 WH Smith fiction award.

Conan Doyle archive likely to fetch £2m
16/03/2004 A lost hoard of Arthur Conan Doyle material, including a scrap of a story he wrote at age six and the brass plate with which he set up as a young doctor, has turned up in the London office of a law firm.

Disney buys Supermarket man's story
16/03/2004 Clive Woodall began making up the story for his two sons, he called it One for Sorrow, after the first line of an ancient children's skipping rhyme.

Orange longlist announced
15/03/2004 This year's longlist for the Orange prize for fiction, awarded annually to a novel by a woman published in the UK, combines new and established writers.

Paul Durcan to read at Poetry Festival
12/03/2004 Irish poet Paul Durcan is among the poets involved in the ninth annual Poetry Now Festival (PN04), which takes place in Dun Laoghaire from Friday 25 to Sunday 28 March.

Spalding Gray's body found in river
09/03/2004'The body of Spalding Gray was recovered from the East River in New York yesterday.

Rowling may consider another Potter book
05/03/2004'Harry Potter' author JK Rowling has hinted that the seventh book in the collection may not be the last we hear of the wizard boy.

Accountants are top readers
05/03/2004 A survey published today for World Book Day reveals that accountants spend more time reading books for pleasure than any other profession.

Colm Tóibín to do public interview
04/03/2004 Colm Tóibín will do a Rattlebag Public Interview on Tuesday 16 March at Liberty Hall on Eden Quay in Dublin.

JK Rowling joins billionaires' row
01/03/2004 JK Rowling has joined the ranks of the super-rich, making it onto the Forbes magazine billionaires list for the first time.

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