Rosemary Goring: Has J K Rowling been cancelled by the Big Jubilee Read?

IT was the summer of 1997 when news spread about a children’s book that was becoming a word of mouth sensation. I was working for a different newspaper, and recall the first faint rumblings about Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone growing louder by the day. Everybody was talking about it: booksellers, teachers, parents, journalists, and most importantly children themselves. This wizarding tale turned out to have almost supernatural success, such was its rise to fame. The Herald’s chi

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