The heroine of Liar-Soft's 2008 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow, Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

* Affinity ( film ), a 2008 feature film based on Sarah Waters ' novel

It had been hoped that patient adherence to antipsychotics would be higher with the atypicals, but a 2008 review found that the data have failed to substantiate the notion that novel antipsychotic drug use leads to improved medication compliance and favorable clinical outcomes.

In 2008, while promoting his third novel, Hackman confirmed that he had retired from acting.

Alastair Reynolds also uses ringworlds in his 2008 novel House of Suns.

* Daedalus's Labyrinth served as a central plot element in Rick Riordan's 2008 novel, The Battle of the Labyrinth.

A fictional journal written by La Malinche and discovered in an archeological dig is a central element in a 2008 adventure novel The Treasure of La Malinche by Jeffry S. Hepple.

* Chip Kidd's 2008 novel The Learners is about the Milgram experiment, and features Stanley Milgram as a character.

Following this, Stephenson published a novel titled Anathem ( 2008 ), a very long and detailed work, perhaps best described as speculative fiction.

In 2008, King published both a novel, Duma Key, and a collection, Just After Sunset.

In 2008, The Chemical Brothers ' music was featured in a movie adaption of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

* Andreas Seiler's novel Real Wizard ( 2008 ) is an attribution to the 1, 000 year old myth, with aspects of life and death of the Emperor.

* Resolution ( novel ), a 2008 novel by Robert B. Parker, a Western, sequel to Appaloosa

The Shire Hall and surrounding area were used as a location for the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special and in 2011 The Interactives graphic novel.

* The story of the Battle of Carrhae is the centrepiece of Ben Kane's novel The Forgotten Legion ( 2008 ).

* Chris Kirwan, Chris Kirwan's novel Shadowers Crossing ( 2008 ISBN 978-0-9558709-0-3 ) features Ethelfleda's final, successful fortification at Castle Rock, Runcorn, in AD 915.

A less sympathetic picture is given in Sandra Worth's Lady of the Roses ( 2008 ) as well as in Marjorie Bowen's 1929 novel Dickon where she is portrayed as a schemer who is at the very heart of the various conspiracies against Richard III.

The 2008 interquel novel Paul of Dune explores both Paul's childhood before Dune and his life between the novels Dune and Dune Messiah.

In 2008, DiCaprio starred in Body of Lies, a spy film based on the novel of the same name by David Ignatius, set in context of the Middle East and the War on Terror, unfolding the story of three men battling a terrorist organization, and each other.

* The Night Sessions, a 2008 novel by Ken MacLeod, is set in this year.

Books for younger readers both have historical settings: Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door ( 1998 ) ( grades 4-6 ) is set in 1777 ; and Beth Kanell's young adult novel, The Darkness Under the Water ( 2008 ), concerns a young Abenaki-French Canadian girl during the time of the Vermont Eugenics Project, 1931-1936.

The filming started in 2008 and Kobayashi has chosen a completely different cast for the movie, casting j-pop singer Jin Akanishi, and Kie Kitano for the main roles.

* Daigo Kobayashi, the main character in the 2008 film Departures

She holds records in over 25 eating competitions, and in December 2008, she defeated top-ranked eater Takeru Kobayashi in a fruit-cake eating contest.

In 2008, TDP driver Kamui Kobayashi replaced Nakajima at DAMS GP2 and became the Toyota Racing test driver.

Makoto Kobayashi is the emeritus professor at KEK, is known for his work on CP-violation, and was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.

* 2008: Prof. Makoto Kobayashi won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Half of the 2008 prize was awarded to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for their 1972 work on quark mixing.

In 2008, Chestnut and Kobayashi tied at 59 hot dogs in 10 minutes ( the time span had previously been 12 minutes ), and Chestnut won in an eatoff in which he was the first of the two competitors to finish eating 5 hot dogs in overtime, earning Chestnut his second consecutive title.

Dhalla issued a Private Member's Bill in April 2008, calling on the federal government to apologize for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, in which a ship with 376 mostly Sikh immigrants was denied access to Canada.

On April 3, 2008, Ruby Dhalla, MP for Brampton — Springdale, tabled motion 469 ( M-469 ) in the House of Commons which read, " That, in the opinion of the House, the government should officially apologize to the Indo-Canadian community and to the individuals impacted in the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, in which passengers were prevented from landing in Canada.

On May 10, 2008, Jason Kenney, Secretary of State ( Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity ), announced the Indo-Canadian community would be able to apply for up to $ 2. 5 million in grants and contributions funding to commemorate the Komagata Maru incident.

On May 23, 2008, the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia unanimously passed a resolution " that this Legislature apologizes for the events of May 23, 1914, when 376 passengers of the Komagata Maru, stationed off Vancouver harbour, were denied entry by Canada.

On August 3, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appeared at the 13th annual Ghadri Babiyan Da Mela ( festival ) in Surrey, B. C., to issue an apology for the Komagata Maru incident.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

* ADA ... A Way of Life, 2008 Bollywood musical by Tanvir Ahmed

* Animal, 2008 album by Far East Movement

* Animal !, a 2008 album by Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

A literature review by Michael McCullough and Camile Farah, published in the Australian Dental Journal in 2008, focused on a possible connection between mouthwashes that contain alcohol, and an increased risk of oral cancer.

* The Natural Religion by Dr Brendan Connolly, 2008

* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

During the first half of 2008, Armenia's widening current-account trade deficit grew by 66 percent to $ 1. 39 billion USD, with a 40 percent rise in imports.

Since early 2008, Armenia's entire rail network is managed by the Russian state railway.

For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.

* Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions by Christopher M. Moreman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

* The Australian composer Nigel Butterley set the verse in his 2008 choral work " Beni Avshalom ", commissioned by the Sydney Chamber Choir

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.