Book News Archive June 2005:
30/06/2005 Carl Hiaasen's Hoot makes it to Hollywood
Carl Hiaasen's Newbery Award-winning book, Hoot, is to be made into a film with comedian and TV director Wil Shriner (Fraiser, Everybody Loves Raymond) directing from his own script. 
28/06/2005 World Booker awarded to Albanian author
Dissident Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was awarded the first-ever Man Booker International Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Edinburgh last night.
27/06/2005 Saddam's novel banned in Jordan
Saddam Hussein's latest novel Get Out of Here, Curse You, has been banned in Jordan.
24/06/2005 Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential for TV treatment
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain's autobiographical expos of life behind kitchen doors, has been adapted and fictionalised for television in the US.
24/06/2005 Cookbook author to host new TV show
Nigella Lawson, the English cookbook writer, will launch her new daytime TV show in July.
23/06/2005 Shortlist announced for Frank O'Connor prize
The shortlist has been announced for the Frank O' Connor International Short Story Prize, the single biggest award in the world for a collection of short stories.
21/06/2005 Irish government to abolish tax exemption scheme?
According to a report in the Guardian newspaper, the Irish government is in secret talks about abandoning its tax exemption scheme for creative writers.
20/06/2005 Bernstein, Woodward reunite on Deep Throat book
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - the two Washington Post journalists behind the breaking of the 1960s Watergate scandal - have reunited on a book about the revelation of their source's identity.
17/06/2005 Binchy, O'Connor for Joyce anthology
Maeve Binchy and Joseph O'Connor are among the eleven Irish writers to have written short stories about Dublin for an anthology in celebration of James Joyce's Dubliners.
16/06/2005 Burchill book on award shortlist
Julie Burchill's controversial novel, Sugar Rush, has been shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize.
15/06/2005 Coe takes the Johnson prize
Jonathan Coe's biography of author BS Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, has won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
14/06/2005 Two men in court over Potter book theft
Two men appeared in court yesterday before Kettering Magistrates, Northants in connection with stealing advance copies of the much-anticipated new Harry Potter book.
12/06/2005 Roald Dahl gets own museum
A museum celebrating the life and work of Welsh children's author Roald Dahl opened yesterday in Buckinghamshire.
10/06/2005 New Dumas novel on sale - 135 years after author's death
A newly discovered novel by The Three Musketeers author Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) has just been published in France.
09/06/2005 Set of letters by Shelley fetch £45,600
Four letters written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley have been sold for £45,600
by Christie's auction house.
08/06/2005 US author's tale of motherhood wins Orange Prize
American author Lionel Shriver has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin.
07/06/2005 Oprah picks Faulkner for summer book club
Oprah Winfrey has picked William Faulkner's three novels As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury and Light in August as her summer reading selection for her bookclub.
07/06/2005 Clinton's autobiography wins audiobook award
Bill Clinton won the Audiobook of the Year award this weekend from the Audio Publishers Association.
04/06/2005 Potter book duo charged with firearms offences
Two men have been charged with weapons offences after they allegedly tried to sell a stolen copy of the new Harry Potter book to the Sun newspaper in England.
03/06/2005 Albanian novelist wins Man Booker Prize
Ismail Kadare from Albania has won the first international version of Britain's prestigious Man Booker literary prize.
03/06/2005 Thompson wins Bisto Book of Year Award
Kate Thompson has won the Bisto Book of the Year Award for the third time.
02/06/2005 McCartney to publish children's book
Paul McCartney has signed a deal to publish a children's picture book.
02/06/2005 Opening of 35th Listowel Writer's Week festival
The Listowel Writer's Week was opened in Kerry last night by Caherciveen native, John O'Donoghue, the Minister of Arts, Sport and Tourism.
01/06/2005 Air-crash survivors attend Dublin launch
Survivors of a plane crash in the Wicklow mountains that happened nearly sixty years ago, will attend the launch of a new book tonight.
01/06/2005 Austen letter goes on display for first time
A letter from Jane Austen to her sister, which mentions Pride and Prejudice, has gone on display for the first time at the former Austen house in Chawton, Hampshire, according to a report in The Guardian.
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