Harry Potter fans who have been waiting in Trafalgar Square for up to six days earn the chance to meet author JK Rowling and stars of the films based on her books... more
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has announced a massive online website to promote reading where children will have literature brought to life with the help of some wizardry... more
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has launched a mysterious new website. A spokeswoman for the writer said it was a new project for the author, but was not a new book... more
Brother of a Harry Potter star was jailed for six months today for a 'prolonged and nasty' attack in which she was beaten and branded a 'slag' for dating a non-Muslim... more
Harry Potter author JK Rowling and The Apprentice’s Alan Sugar have topped a list of celebrities who inspire Londoners to become their own boss... more
Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and author JK Rowling have topped a poll of those who mothers would choose as the best role model for their children.... more
Hundreds of Harry Potter fans packed into bookshops across London early today in a bid to be the first in the world to buy JK Rowling's latest book.... more
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has won her claim that a fan violated her copyright with his plans to publish a Potter encyclopaedia. Ms Rowling sued RDR Books last year to stop publication of the lexicon.... more
JK Rowling's 800 word 'prequel' to Harry Potter - which she wrote last month - sold at auction for £25,000 tonight amid frenzied bidding by fans of the boy wizard... more
Joanna Trollope has left her publisher of many years, Bloomsbury. It's reported that Trollope felt that the firm has become so preoccupied with its great money-maker, JK Rowling, that it has neglected its bread and butter authors and lost its way... more
Author JK Rowling clearly intended to make a splash at the prestigious British Book Awards. But she suffered an embarrassing cleavage malfunction in her waist-cinching purple satin dress, and her blushes were spared only with the help of her male assistant... more
It is the ultimate literary scare story: the Society of Authors has said its 8,500 members are so worried about declining incomes because of internet publishing that they may stop writing books. Is this a threat or a prediction?... more
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