Book News Archive October 2004:
29/10/2004 Oscar Wilde collection sold for over €1m
A collection of books, letters and photographs relating to Oscar Wilde were sold at auction in London today. 
29/10/2004 Reader's Day for South Dublin Arts and Libraries
South Dublin Arts and Libraries have announced that their third Reader's Day will take place on Saturday 6 November at the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght.
28/10/2004 Ellroy's book set for big screen
James Ellroy's new book Destination: Morgue! La Tales, is to be adapted for the screen.
28/10/2004 Armitage joins Griffin prize judges
English poet Simon Armitage has been chosen as one of three judges of the Griffin poetry prize.
27/10/2004 New Zealand writer Maurice Shadbolt dies
Leading New Zealand author Maurice Shadbolt has died after a lengthy illness, aged 72.
26/10/2004 LaGravenese to direct 'PS, I Love You'
Richard LaGravenese is to direct the film adaptation of Cecelia Ahern's best-selling book 'PS, I Love You'.
26/10/2004 Ireland's most famous novelists turn out in force
The most famous faces in contemporary Irish writing will turn out in force and en-masse tomorrow to celebrate one of the most exciting literary projects of recent years.
25/10/2004 BBC to launch new book programme
The BBC is to launch a new book programme following on from the success of its Big Read.
22/10/2004 Manager's memoir paints unflattering portrait of Pavarotti
"The King and I" by Herbert Breslin paints a less than flattering portrait of the great Italian tenor as a spoiled superstar whose ego was matched only by his girth.
21/10/2004 Hollywood stars line up for Jarhead
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx and Lucas Black are just three of the Hollywood stars that will be in the film adaptation of Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir, Jarhead.
21/10/2004 Bergman reveals family secret in memoir
Film director Ingmar Bergman has revealed that he has a secret love child from an affair conducted with a Swedish countess in the 1950s.
20/10/2004 Garcia Marquez launches new book early
The launch of the Spanish-language version of the book, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," was brought forward by a week because pirate copies have begun appearing.
20/10/2004 The Line of Beauty takes 2004 Booker
Alan Hollinghurst was last night named as the winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his fourth novel, The Line of Beauty.
19/10/2004 Bookies tip Mitchell for Booker
David Mitchell is the bookmakers' favourite to win the 2004 Man Booker Prize, the results of which will be announced tonight.
19/10/2004 Clarke sells film rights to novel
New Line Cinema has bought the feature film rights for Susanna Clarke's best-selling fantasy novel 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'.
18/10/2004 Zeta-Jones backs Thomas literary prize
Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has thrown her support behind a literary contest to be launched in memory of her fellow countryman, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
18/10/2004 Chinua Achebe rejects government award
Chinua Achebe, one of Africa's most prominent literary icons, has rejected a national honors award from his government in Nigeria.
15/10/2004 Patrick Kavanagh reading at Dublin Writers Museum
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of famed Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, the Dublin Writer's Museum will host a reading of his work.
14/10/2004 Edinburgh to become City of Literature
Unesco, the United Nations' cultural body, is to name Edinburgh as the world's first City of Literature.
14/10/2004 Schoolchildren to judge Children's Book Award
Schoolchildren Sarah Hayes and Adam Pipe have been chosen as judges for the Whitbread Children's Book Award.
13/10/2004 Meg Rosoff's debut novel takes fiction prize
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff has won the prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for 2004.
13/10/2004 Award-winning Irish poets for new book
Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney and Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon are just two of the poets in a new book of Irish poetry.
12/10/2004 New Beatles book on sale
A new set of Beatles postcards and scribblings have been collected in a new book
by Ringo Starr.
12/10/2004 South Tipperary Writer's Festival this weekend
Impressions - South Tipperary Writer's Festival takes place this weekend from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 October in Clonmel.
11/10/2004 Character dies in next Potter book
JK Rowling has revealed that another character will be killed off in the sixth Harry Potter book, but she did not say which one.
10/10/2004 Oscar Wilde lecture for RDS
To mark the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth, his grandson Merlin Holland will give a lecture at the RDS.
08/10/2004 Author of bestseller McCarthy's Bar dies
Travel writer and broadcaster Pete McCarthy has died of cancer aged 51.
08/10/2004 Purcell, Thompson for readers' and writers' day
Deirdre Purcell and Kate Thompson are among the writers who will participate in tomorrow's Dublin City Libraries' readers' and writers' day, Reader, I Married Him.
07/10/2004 Austria's Elfriede Jelinek takes Nobel Prize
The 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek.
07/10/2004 Pluto moves to Northern Ireland
Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan started filming scenes from Breakfast on Pluto, the film based on Patrick McCabe's controversial novel, in Northern Ireland today.
07/10/2004 NUI Galway to launch writer's website
The Arts Office at NUI Galway will launch a specially commissioned website, titled Transformation, to include the poetry and prose of writer Rab Swannock Fulton in the university art gallery this evening.
06/10/2004 Long awaited Dylan autobiography launched in US
Although Bob Dylan's long awaited autobiography hits American bookstores today, the reclusive musician has not abandoned his mystique.
05/10/2004 Robbins to join War of the Worlds?
Oscar winner Tim Robbins is in negotiations to star opposite Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the HG Wells classic 1989 sci-fi novel War of the Worlds.
04/10/2004 Defence starts in Steinbeck lawsuit
Lawyers for the estate of John Steinbeck's widow are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit begun by his other relatives over royalties and copyright.
04/10/2004 Graham Greene's centenary celebrated
The centenary of the birth of British author Graham Greene was celebrated at a special gathering on Saturday.
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