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London girls have the best body image

03.11.09
Girls in London are happier with their looks than anywhere else in the country, survey claims... more

JK Rowling totters on her six-inch heels

07.07.09
JK Rowling had to grip her husband's hand for support as she teetered in a pair of extremely high designer shoes.... more

How fanfic took over the web

08.06.09
Ever wondered what happened to Harry Potter’s children? Or if Mr Rochester and Jane stayed hitched? Out in cyberspace fans have written sequels. ... more

Angelina Jolie is 'most powerful celebrity in the world'

04.06.09
Angelina Jolie has been named the most powerful celebrity in the world, dethroning Oprah Winfrey in the process. ... more

Boris joins Time's power list with help from Conrad Black

30.04.09
Boris Johnson's global reach was underlined when he was named in the Time 100, the US magazine's list of the world's most influential people... more

Rowling quits as patron of MS charity split by strife

09.04.09
JK Rowling has quit as patron of the MS Society Scotland, claiming the charity is being riven by an internal row... more

President makes a beeline for JK and says I love Harry Potter

02.04.09
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My organic escape to happy working

12.03.09
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless... more

Rowling apologises for Voldemort's ancestry

04.02.09
France paid homage to Harry Potter author JK Rowling as she was "inducted" into the country's Legion of Honour... more

JK’s fairy tales are a load of old Hogwarts

05.12.08
Pages and pages on the special properties of wands made from elderwood? That's not literature, it's fiddling... more

Watch out, JK's Beedle is about

04.12.08
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

Potted Potter builds up to best moment

04.12.08
What Potted Potter lacks in emotional depth it makes up for in shallow but riotous puerility, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Kill off that golden goose and hear your readers squeal

25.11.08
Belgium’s most famous son, Hergé, confessed privately to his wife that Tintin and his dog Snowy made him “sick”... more

Literary Life

08.10.08
Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Harry Potter author JK Rowling wins copyright suit against web operator

08.09.08
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

£3.5 million Bloomsbury puts faith in Buffett

29.08.08
Bloomsbury reckons a new biography of Warren Buffett will help it thrive in a post-Harry Potter world... more

Lashings of votes for Enid in readers' poll

18.08.08
Enid Blyton has been named best-loved author of all time in a new poll... more

Life after Harry Potter: JK Rowling to release a series of fairy tales

31.07.08
JK Rowling has announced her first book to hit the shelves since Harry Potter's final outing - a series of fairy tales.... more

'Mum died before I could tell her about Harry Potter' says JK Rowling

22.07.08
Harry Potter author JK Rowling is tormented by the fact her sick mother never knew of her success.... more

British film boom: Industry in 60 per cent hike in takings thanks to Keira and Harry Potter

21.07.08
Keira Knightley and JK Rowling have helped the British film industry enjoy its best year, earning a record £1.65 billion around the world.... more

Britain's £1.5bn box office record

21.07.08
Keira Knightley and JK Rowling have helped the British film industry enjoy its best ever year, earning a record £1.6 billion around the world.... more

UK films make great box office with £1.6bn record

21.07.08
Keira Knightley and JK Rowling have helped the British film industry enjoy its best year, earning a record £1.65 billion around the world... more

JK's magic £150m makes her world's top-earning celebrity

14.06.08
JK Rowling was the world's highest-earning celebrity last year, making £150million.... more

JK Rowling's 800 word Harry Potter prequel sells for £25,000 at charity auction

11.06.08
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

The curse of Harry: rich publishers, poor authors

25.04.08
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

JK and the bust that nearly got away

10.04.08
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

Stop writing if you must - but we won't stop reading

01.04.08
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

Welcome back to Harry's world

31.05.07
An industry employing hundreds has grown up around the Harry Potter films. Mike Goodridge went to watch the crew at work - and talk to the fifth film's star.... more

Rowling signs Potter books at midnight

23.05.07
JK Rowling is to give a moonlight book signing to mark the publication of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.... more

2007: licence to thrill

03.01.07
From the people who will liven up London to Kylie's undies at the V&A and The Lord of the Rings in the West End, this year promises to be a prize one for getting out in the capital.... more

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