UK News 09-06-2005 who: JK Rowling what: Seeks ultimate Harry Potter fan to conduct exclusive interview when: This week snippet: "A televised competition will quiz children aged between 8 and 16 on their knowledge of Potter, ending with the crowning of Hogwarts` star student," says The Times. That person will interview the author of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince "head to head" in her one and only television interview, a coup for ITV. The Mirror says "The Half Blood Prince looks set to beat the 2003 Goblet of Fire`s record-breaking five million copies sold worldwide in 24 hours, when it is finally released on July 16" and the BBC says gunshots were fired in Kettering, Northamptonshire, on Friday morning when a deal to sell a stolen advance Harry Potter manuscript to The Sun apparently turned nasty. In other book news, Lionel Shriver won the Orange Prize for Fiction this week for her book We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Independent says Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, a new 1,000-page novel by Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, has been published in France 135 years after his death. [... more]

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