Book News Archive February 2006:
27/02/2006 Brown Da Vinci Code court case opens today
Dan Brown, the author of controversial novel The Da Vinci Code, is in London's High Court today to defend a breach of copyright claim. 
27/02/2006 PEN/Faulkner award for Doctorow's The March
EL Doctorow's 'The March', has won the 2006 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.
24/02/2006 Adi Roche launches book on Chernobyl disaster
Chernobyl Children's Project International (CCPI) Executive Director Adi Roche has launched a book to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
23/02/2006 Peel, Rowling, Oliver on Best Book shortlist
BBC radio broadcaster John Peel's posthumous autobiography, JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook are among six books shortlisted for the WH Smith Book of the Year award.
21/02/2006 The Third Policeman gets boost from Lost
An appearance on American television series Lost has sparked a new interest in surreal masterpiece The Third Policeman by Irish writer Flann O'Brien.
20/02/2006 Faulkner letter auctioned for almost $18,000
A letter by Nobel Prize-winning American author William Faulkner has been sold for almost $18,000, according to auction house Bonhams & Butterfields.
17/02/2006 Javier Bardem to star in film of Marquez's Cholera
Oscar nominated Spanish actor Javier Bardem is to star in the big-screen adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.
16/02/2006 Hemmingway for audio publication
Audio editions of Ernest Hemingway classics, for long only available to
libraries, are to be released from by publishers Simon & Schuster Audio from May 2006.
13/02/2006 Author of Jaws dies at 65
Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, died at the weekend at his home in
Princeton, New Jersey. He was 65.
10/02/2006 Pratchett's Hogfather to get TV adaptation
Only Fools and Horses actor David Jason is to star in a TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett's fantasy fiction novel Hogfather.
09/02/2006 Mystery of author JT LeRoy revealed
In the wake of the revelation that parts of James Frey's memoirs were invented, another long-running literary hoax has been exposed with a central figure in the case of the mysterious US author JT Leroy confirming that the writer does not exist.
09/02/2006 McCabe, Patterson and O'Driscoll elected to Aosdána
Writers Eugene McCabe, Glenn Patterson and Dennis O'Driscoll were among twelve new members yesterday elected to Aosdána.
07/02/2006 Zadie Smith's On Beauty takes Commonwealth prize
British writer Zadie Smith's Booker Prize shortlisted novel On Beauty has been named winner for the Eurasia region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
06/02/2006 Feminist icon Betty Friedan dies, aged 85
American feminist writer Betty Friedan, whose 1963 bestseller The Feminine Mystique was credited with giving voice to modern feminism, has died aged 85.
03/02/2006 Ireland rivals New Zealand for Narnia
Ireland is in competition with New Zealand to be the location for the filming of Prince Caspian, the second film in The Chronicles of Narnia series.
01/02/2006 Coens brothers to helm new McCarthy novel
Joel and Ethan Coen will direct the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's new novel No Country for Old Men, according to Production Weekly.
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