Book News Archive July/August 2006:
15/08/2006 Man Booker longlist announced
The longlist for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced yesterday. 
05/08/2006 Bonham Carter to star in Harry Potter
Helena Bonham Carter has joined the cast of the fifth Harry Potter movie, The Order of the Phoenix.
01/08/2006 Seamus Heaney nominated for Forward prize
Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney was nominated last week for a Forward Prize.
31/07/2006 Irish girl for role in The Spiderwick Chronicles
Sarah Bolger, who starred in Jim Sheridan's In America, has been cast opposite Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland) in a film adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles.
25/07/2006 Reservation Road for Terry George
Belfast-born Hotel Rwanda director Terry George's next film is to be an adaptation of Jonathan Burnham Schwartz's novel ' Reservation Road'.
24/07/2006 Johansson joins The Other Boleyn Girl
Scarlett Johansson has joined Natalie Portman and Eric Bana for The Other Boleyn Girl.
12/07/2006 Castletown House to host Aristocrats discussion
BBC mini-series Aristocrats, based on the historical biography by Stella Tillyard, will be the subject of a special event at Castletown House in Celbridge, Co Kildare on 20 July.
11/07/2006 Knightley to star in McEwan's Atonement
British actress Keira Knightley has been cast in the Focus Features/Working Title production of Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated novel, Atonement.
10/07/2006 Robert Downey Jr to write autobiography
American actor Robert Downey Jr has just signed a deal to write his memoirs.
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