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JK Rowling picks favourite Harry Potter quote

Entertainment

Deadline News Journalist - December 17, 2014

JK ROWLING has delighted fans by picking her favourite quote from the Harry Potter series. The author, who wrote 1,084,170 words in the seven-book series...

McCall Smith gives dinner party etiquette advice

Entertainment

Deadline News Journalist - January 17, 2012

BESTSELLING author Alexander McCall Smith has taken to the internet to give his fans advice on how to ‘detach’ themselves from awkward and interminable...

North Berwick want to kidnap Stevenson’s history with statue

Deadline News Journalist - March 14, 2010

By Michael MacLeod SEASIDERS from a Scots town want to honour Robert Louis Stevenson with a statue – because he went there on holiday...

JK Rowling solicitors deny she forked out £300,000 to move house two weeks early

Deadline News Journalist - January 17, 2010

By Rory Reynolds SOLICITORS acting for author JK ROWLING have denied reports she offered the previous owner of her new home £300,000 to move out...

Crime writer vows to “hunt down” arson yobs

Deadline News Journalist - December 31, 2009

By Paul Thornton SCOTS crime writer Ian Rankin has vowed to track down yobs who torched FIVE wheelie bins outside his home. Rankin, 49, found the...

Burke to get honorary degree from uni that banned him

Deadline News Journalist - April 27, 2009

By Cara Sulieman SCOTTISH playwright Gregory Burke is to receive an honorary degree from his old university - despite being banned from the campus for...

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