Book News Archive January 2006:
31/01/2006 Paramount Pictures buys Spellman Files film rights
Scriptwriter Lisa Lutz has sold the film rights to her unpublished debut novel, The Spellman Files which will be published by Simon & Schuster, to Paramount Pictures. 
30/01/2006 South Bank award for John McGahern
Irish novelist John McGahern was the winner of the literature prize at the 10th annual South Bank awards for Memoir, his first book of non-fiction.
27/01/2006 Moss to write tell-all autobiography
British supermodel Kate Moss has agreed to publish her autobiography with Richard Branson's Virgin Books.
26/01/2006 Irish author Patrick O'Keeffe wins US fiction prize
Limerick-born author Patrick O'Keeffe has taken the US Story Prize for his debut publication, a collection of four novellas, called The Hill Road.
25/01/2006 Spurling's Matisse biography wins Whitbread
Biographer Hilary Spurling has won the prestigious 2005 Whitbread Book of the Year award for her biography Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: 1909-1954.
24/01/2006 Turkish court drops Pamuk case
Charges of "insulting Turkishness" against internationally acclaimed
novelist, Orhan Pamuk were dropped by a Turkish court yesterday.
23/01/2006 Ali Smith favourite for Whitbread
Bookmakers have made Ali Smith the odds-on favourite to win the Whitbread
Book Award with her Man Booker shortlisted novel, The Accidental, at 5-4.
20/01/2006 Irish Book Awards shortlist announced
The Irish Book Awards shortlist has been announced. 18 nominees were shortlisted in the three categories, of fiction, non-fiction and children's books, the winners of which will be announced on 1 March at an awards ceremony in the Royal Yacht Club, Dún Laoghaire.
19/01/2006 Bafta nominations for Constant Gardener, Brokeback Mountain
Literary adaptations The Constant Gardener and Brokeback Mountain have been nominated for numerous Bafta film awards.
18/01/2006 1927 novel to get film adaptation
Daniel Day-Lewis is in talks to star in a film about the early days of the oil business, loosely based on political committed writer Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!.
17/01/2006 Brokeback Mountain wins four Golden Globes
Brokeback Mountain was the big winner at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills last night, winning four awards.
16/01/2006 Osbourne's autobiography tops bestsellers lists
Sharon Osbourne's book Extreme has become the bestselling hardback autobiography since British records began, selling 621,000 copies, beating the previous record for Beckham's My Side by more than 100,000 copies.
15/01/2006 Alanis Morissette writing memoir
Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette has told Rolling Stone magazine that she will spend this year writing a memoir.
14/01/2006 Fincher to direct graphic novel adaptation Torso
Seven and Fight Club director David Fincher is set to helm Torso, a thriller based on a graphic novel written by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andrey-ko, and drawn by Bendis in the late 1990s.
12/01/2006 May opening for Yeats exhibition
A passport dating from 1916, a valuable Japanese sword received as a gift during a US lecture tour in 1920 and a cup won in 1879 winning a half mile race at the Godolphin School in Hammersmith are among the items on temporary loan to the National Library of Ireland for a large scale exhibition on the life of poet WB Yeats in May.
11/01/2006 Hanks to star in film of Charlie Wilson's War?
Mike Nichols is in discussions to direct Tom Hanks in CIA drama Charlie Wilson's War, based on the book by George Crile.
10/01/2006 Billie Piper to star in Pullman's adaptation
Doctor Who star Billie Piper is to star in a BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke.
09/01/2006 Harry Potter tops 2005 US bestseller list
JK Rowling's latest Harry Potter adventure was the top selling book in the US, according to sales figures which were released on Friday.
06/01/2006 Librarian discovers unknown Byron manuscript
A librarian has discovered the only known manuscript of a poem by Lord Byron at University College London (UCL).
05/01/2006 More nominations for Brokeback Mountain
The acclaimed Ang Lee-directed adaptation of E Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain has intensified its Oscar chances after appearing in the lists of nominees for two influential US awards.
04/01/2006 Thompson wins Whitbread Children's book award
Irish based author, Kate Thompson, has won the Whitbread Children's book award.
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