Book News Archive December 2005:
24/12/2005 Turkish writer and publisher fined
An Istanbul court has fined writer Zulkuf Kisanak and publisher Aziz Ozer for insulting the Turkish state. 
23/12/2005 Blyton's Famous Five top poll
Enid Blyton's Famous Five series has topped a poll to find the best children's books.
20/12/2005 Knightley to star in Silk adaptation
Keira Knightley will play the role of Helene in a film adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's bestselling novel Silk, according to her agent.
19/12/2005 Moments book raises €130,000 for tsunami victims
A book by Irish writers and publishers - Moments: Irish Women Writers In Aid of the Tsunami Victims - has raised over €130,000 for the victims of the South East Asian disaster.
17/12/2005 Novelist Pamuk's trial suspended in Turkey
The trial of acclaimed Turkish novelist, Orhan Pamuk, who is charged with insulting the Turkish nation, has been suspended until next year.
16/12/2005 Tatty takes Irish publisher's award
Tatty, a novel by Christine Dwyer Hickey, has been named as Publishers' Book of the Year.
15/12/2005 Richard and Judy reveal books for 2006
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan have revealed the ten books that will feature in the Book Club on their popular Channel 4 television show in 2006.
13/12/2005 Whitbread to abandon awards
The Whitbread retail group are to pull out of the book awards that they have been sponsoring since 1971 as they no longer consider the association to be commercially viable.
12/12/2005 Pinter attacks Bush, Blair in Nobel speech
In his video-taped acceptance speech, Nobel literature laureate Harold Pinter condemned US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, saying that the two leaders should be prosecuted for the invasion of Iraq.
09/12/2005 Biography of homeless man wins First Book Award
Alexander Masters' biography of homeless man Stuart Shorter - Stuart: A Life Backwards - has won the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award.
08/12/2005 Bryson takes science prize
Bill Bryson has won a Descartes Prize for Science Communication for his 2004 book 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'.
07/12/2005 Pinter admitted to hospital
British playwright Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, has been taken to a hospital in London, according to his agent, Judy Daish.
06/12/2005 Belfast to host Irish premiere of Narnia film
The Irish premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe will take place in Belfast on Thursday night.
05/12/2005 Bad Sex book prize goes to Giles Coren
Winkler, the debut novel from British author and journalist Giles Coren, has won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
02/12/2005 Director announced for Shantaram adaptation
Australian Peter Weir has been named as the director of the film adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' autobiographical novel Shantaram.
02/12/2005 Public reading for Hamilton, O'Callaghan
As part of the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Institute of Art, Design & Technology Writer in Residence series, Hugo Hamilton and Julie O'Callaghan are to do a reading at 7pm on Wednesday, 7 December.
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