The Evening Standard is today reporting that J.K. Rowling is to write a contribution for Gordon Brown's (the U.K.'s prime minister) book about being British.
Announced at the
Edinburgh international book festival, the publication will be out in spring 2009.
Quote:
Bill Campbell, of Mainstream Publishing in Edinburgh, of which Mr Brown used to be a director, said: 'It was an original idea from Gordon and there has been a substantial personal contribution from him.
'He has approached several archbishops and other religious leaders for their views, and Ian Rankin, JK Rowling and Sir George Martin are among the other contributors.
'The book is meant to reflect on the diversity of what it means to be British in the modern day.'