Book News Archive August 2005:
30/08/2005 Director for Night at the Museum adaptation
Stephen Sommers is to direct a film based on Milan Trenc's children's book The Night at the Museum for 20th Century Fox .
29/08/2005 Glamour model Jordan gets two-novel deal
Katie Price, better known as glamour model Jordan, has signed a book deal with Random House to write two novels as well as a new autobiography.
26/08/2005 Bushnell's Lipstick Jungle for TV series?
Lipstick Jungle, the new book from Candace Bushnell - the author of Sex and the City - may be turned into a television series.
25/08/2005 Lumley, Townsend on shortlist for Wit Award
Actress Joanna Lumley and Sue Townsend, the inventor of Adrian Mole, are both on the shortlist of the Saga magazine Award for Wit.
24/08/2005 Jolie for role in Beowulf film adaptation
American actress Angelina Jolie has signed up for the cast of the forthcoming computer animated film adaptation of epic poem Beowulf.
23/08/2005 Online library destined for success
Peter Baillie, the founder of an online book-sharing library, says the interest in his idea has been phemomenal.
22/08/2005 Thompson's ashes blasted into sky
The ashes of writer Hunter S Thompson were blown into the sky from a cannon at his Owl Farm home in Aspen, Colorado on Saturday, 20 August.
20/08/2005 UK search for favourite gay novel
UK librarians, together with Manchester-based literature development and community publishing agency, Commonworld, have launched a search for the UK's favourite lesbian or gay novel.
18/08/2005 Stephen King to auction character name
Horror novelist Stephen King is taking part in a web auction which offers successful bidders the chance to have a character in his forthcoming book named after them.
17/08/2005 Posh prefers music to books
Victoria Beckham, formerly known as Posh Spice, has confessed to the to a Spanish magazine that she has never read a book.
16/08/2005 George Orwell to be honoured in India
Plans have been made to turn the Indian birthplace of writer George Orwell into a museum.
15/08/2005 Banville and Barry for Edinburgh Book Festival
Man Booker Prize nominees John Banville and Sebastian Barry are among the Irish writers taking part in this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival.
12/08/2005 Breakfast on Pluto film for Toronto premiere
The film adaptation of Patrick McCabe's Breakfast, directed by Neil Jordan, will get its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
11/08/2005 Banville and Barry on Booker longlist
Irish authors John Banville and Sebastian Barry are on the longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Literature.
10/08/2005 Tucker in talks to direct Pullman's Northern Lights
British director Anand Tucker is reportedly close to signing on to helm Northern Lights, the first instalment of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
09/08/2005 Salles to direct Kerouac's On the Road
Brazilian director Walter Salles has been confirmed to direct a film version of Jack Kerouac's Beat classic On the Road.
08/08/2005 Rowling, Dylan and King on Quill Awards shortlist
JK Rowling, Bob Dylan and Stephen King are numbered among the authors shortlisted for the new Quill Awards in the US with the general public casting the ballots for their favourites.
07/08/2005 Court rules Brown didn't copy Da Vinci Code
Best selling author Dan Brown has won a court case where he was been sued by another writer who claimed Brown had copied elements from his two books.
05/08/2005 Brando pirate novel published
A novel about an adventurous pirate, co-written by legendary actor Marlon Brando, has just been published.
04/08/2005 Book deal for Desperate Housewives star
American actress Teri Hatcher, who stars in hit TV series Desperate Housewives, has signed a deal to write a book - to be called Burnt Toast.
03/08/2005 German fans translate Potter book
Thousands of German fans who were in too much of a hurry to wait for the official translation of the new Harry Potter book have translated the book in less than two days.
03/08/2005 Authors to receive library royalties
According to a report on RTÉ's Entertainment website, the government are to introduce a new scheme whereby authors will receive royalties for every time their books are taken out of public libraries.
02/08/2005 Bridget Jones newspaper column returns
Helen Fielding, creator of thirty-something singleton Bridget Jones, is to begin a new weekly column in a British newspaper on Thursday.
01/08/2005 Roast Chicken and Other Stories wins top spot in poll
Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham's Roast Chicken and Other Stories has topped a poll of the most useful recipe books ever written.
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