Book News Archive May 2006:
31/05/2006 Bisto Book of the Year goes to Thompson
The Bisto Book of the year award has been won by Kate Thompson for her book The New Policeman. 
26/05/2006 Bennett tipped to win Samuel Johnson prize
Alan Bennett's latest book Untold Stories has been tipped to win the BBC Four Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.
23/05/2006 Brown's Angels & Demons heads for big screen
Author Dan Brown's bestseller Angels & Demons is to be adapted for the big screen.
22/05/2006 Da Vinci Code cleans up at box office
The hugely anticipated screen adaptation of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code opened at cinemas around the world this weekend.
21/05/2006 Hilary Swank to star in PS, I Love You
Hilary Swank is to star in the big screen adaptation of PS, I Love You, Cecelia Ahern's debut novel.
18/05/2006 At Swim-Two-Birds in IFI
Dublin's Irish Film Institute screened a film adaptation of Flann O'Brien's comic novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, last night as part of the Dublin: One City, One Book scheme.
17/05/2006 Michelle Williams to star in Bronte biopic
Oscar-nominated Brokeback Mountain star Michelle Williams will play the lead character in a forthcoming Charlotte Bronte biopic.
14/05/2006 Tales of the City named best gay novel
Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin's six-volume chronicle of life in 1970s San Francisco, was named on Wednesday as Britain's favourite gay novel.
10/05/2006 Book on way from Franz Ferdinand frontman
Alex Kapranos, the frontman of Scottish band Franz Ferdinand, is to publish a collection of food columns.
09/05/2006 Book about Daniel Pearl to become film
Actor Josh Lucas is to star as a fictitious newsman in a new thriller based on a book about the death of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl.
08/05/2006 Lost author publishes book
A fictional character in TV series Lost, Gary Troup, has published a novel called Bad Twin.
05/05/2006 Shortlists for Carnegie, Greenaway Medals announced
The shortlists for children's book prizes, the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Illustrators Medal were announced yesterday.
04/05/2006 Petterson takes the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was presented to Norwegian writer Per Petterson for his fifth novel, Out Stealing Horses, at a ceremony at the National Portrait Gallery last night.
03/05/2006 Piper to pen autobiography
Former pop singer and Doctor Who star Billie Piper has signed a six-figure deal to write her autobiography.
03/05/2006 Li on Orange New Writers Award shortlist
The winner of 2005's inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Yivun Li has been nominated for the second Orange Award for New Writers.
02/05/2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prizes shortlist announced
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes shortlist has been announced. The nominees include Ali Smith for The Accidental, Smith has already won the Whitbread novel prize and was shortlisted for the Orange prize last week.
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