Book News Archive November 2005:
29/11/2005 Rushdie, Marquez, Theroux up for Bad Sex award
Noted authors Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Paul Theroux have made it on to the longlist for this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award. 
28/11/2005 Banville, Heaney, McGahern for charity auction
Irish writers Seamus Heaney, John Banville, John McGahern, Jennifer Johnston and Brian Friel are among eighty Irish writers, visual artists and musicians to have contributed works for a charity auction to take place in December.
28/11/2005 Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize to Laird
Northern Irish poet and novelist Nick Laird has been named as the most promising Poet of 2005 by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust.
25/11/2005 Pinter unable to attend Nobel ceremony
Harold Pinter, the British playwright and poet who won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, is unable to attend next month's award ceremony in Stockholm for health reasons.
24/11/2005 Bushnell to adapt new book for TV
Candace Bushnell, the author of Sex and the City, is developing a new TV
show based on her latest book.
23/11/2005 Didion, Mailer take honours at Book Awards
Authors Joan Didion and Norman Mailer were winners at this year's US National Book Awards in New York.
22/11/2005 Tóibín, Delaney on IMPAC longlist
Colm Tóibín's The Master and Frank Delaney's Ireland are among six Irish books to have made it onto the longlist for the €100,000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2006.
18/11/2005 Turkish author Pamuk wins French literary award
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who is accused of public discussion of the Armenian Genocide and problems of Kurds, thus damaging Turkey's image, has won a prestigious French foreign literature prize.
17/11/2005 Johansson may star in Nanny Diaries film
Scarlett Johansson is in negotiations to star in a film adaptation of best-selling American novel The Nanny Diaries.
16/11/2005 London waitress competes with top authors for Whitbread
Johannesburg-born Rachel Zadok, a waitress in London whose first novel was published as a result of entering a competition on the Richard & Judy TV show, has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Awards along with writers including Nick Hornby and Salman Rushdie.
15/11/2005 50 Cent to have own book imprint
Rapper 50 Cent is to have his own book imprint, G-Unit Books.
14/11/2005 Danielle Steel sells film rights to books
Danielle Steel has sold the rights to at least 30 of her books to New Line Home Entertainment.
11/11/2005 Paul McCartney publishes book
Paul MacCartney has become the latest celebrity to publish a children's book. The book High in the Clouds went on release earlier this month.
09/11/2005 Television writer Harry Thompson dies
Harry Thompson the writer responsible for Have I Got News For You and Da Ali G Show has died aged 45.
08/11/2005 John Fowles dies aged 79
John Fowles, who is best known for his works The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman' has died. He was 79.
07/11/2005 New Potter film premieres in London
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth film in the Harry Potter series, premiered in London yesterday.
03/11/2005 The Cook's Companion takes Best Food Book award
Stephanie Alexander's revised and updated Australian kitchen compendium, The Cook's Companion, was awarded gold in the Best Food Book category at the 2005 World Food Media Awards held in Adelaide last weekend.
02/11/2005 Harry Potter voted best fantasy hero
Harry Potter has been voted the Greatest Fantasy Hero of All Time in a new poll.
01/11/2005 Court date agreed for Da Vinci trial
On 27 February next year the High Court in London will see the start of a trial to decide whether The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown stole his ideas from a work of non-fiction by historians Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.
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