Book News Archive October 2005:
28/10/2005 Depp to star in Shantaram adaptation
Johnny Depp has confirmed his involvement in the Warner Bros film adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram. 
26/10/2005 Binchy portrait on show at National Gallery
Irish author Maeve Binchy is the subject of a specially commissioned portrait unveiled at the National Gallery of Ireland earlier this week, as reported on the RTE Entertainment website.
25/10/2005 Baigent and Leigh sue Da Vinci publisher
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh are suing Random House, the publisher of The Da Vinci Code, for infringement of their ideas.
24/10/2005 Banville to write thrillers
Irish author, John Banville winner of this year's Booker prize for his novel The Sea, is trying his hand at something new.
23/10/2005 Solzhenitsyn papers destroyed in fire
Papers belonging to author and former Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn have been destroyed in a fire at his country retreat.
21/10/2005 Publishers sue Google over library
Five publishing houses in America have filed a suit against internet search engine Google in order to hamper the publication of books in an online library.
20/10/2005 The Constant Gardener opens London Film Festival
This year's London Film Festival will open next Wednesday with a gala screening of the film adaptation of John Le Carre's novel, The Constant Gardener.
19/10/2005 Kanon's Good German goes into production
Production has started on the film adaptation of Joseph Kanon's novel The Good German.
18/10/2005 Novelist JT LeRoy may be fictional
Cult American novelist JT LeRoy, whose graphic account of his drug-soaked upbringing has became a publishing legend, may not really exist.
17/10/2005 Keenan, Welsh for Clonmel Writers' Festival
Brian Keenan and Irvine Welsh are among the authors lined up for this year's Clonmel Writers' Festival which starts this Thursday, 20 October.
14/10/2005 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Pinter
Celebrated writer Harold Pinter has become the first British playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
12/10/2005 Singer Estefan publishes children's book
Latin pop singer Gloria Estefan has written a children's book - The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog - which hit bookshelves on 11 October.
11/10/2005 Banville takes the Booker
Irish author John Banville was declared the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize at a ceremony in London last night.
10/10/2005 Beatrix Potter farm sale causes protests
There have been protests about the subdivision and sale of an English farm once owned by Beatrix Potter, the author and creator of characters such as Peter Rabbit.
07/10/2005 Jackman to star in Disney adaptation of Ahern book
Walt Disney Pictures has acquired the rights to Cecelia Ahern's third novel If You Could See Me Now and is set to turn it into a musical vehicle for Hugh Jackman.
06/10/2005 Yahoo!-backed group plan to put books online
Internet group Yahoo! are head of a consortium which announced plans earlier this week to start scanning books and build a free online library of books and multimedia files.
05/10/2005 London gallery buys rare Hughes portrait by Plath
The National Portrait Gallery in London has purchased an extremely rare pen-and-ink sketch of Ted Hughes by his wife Sylvia Plath.
04/10/2005 Andrea Levy takes Best of the Best
Andrea Levy's novel Small Island has won the Orange Prize for Fiction's Best of the Best award.
03/10/2005 Christopher Nolan to direct The Prestige adaptation
Christopher Nolan is to helm a film adaptation of Christopher Priest's 1996 novel The Prestige.
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