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Date Posted: 15:42:24 02/03/02 Sun
Author: Matt(Webmaster)
Subject: Rowling challenges Cookson at library

BBC NEWS:
Friday, 1 February, 2002, 08:44 GMT
"Rowling challenges Cookson at library"

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is soaring up the lending league to mount a challenge to Catherine Cookson's dominance of the library world.
The late writer Cookson retains her position as the UK's most borrowed author, according to figures compiled by the organisation Public Lending Right (PLR).

But Rowling's fourth adventure, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, has become the UK's third most-loaned title - behind two Cookson novels.

A year earlier, Rowling's highest entry was way down at 77 in the list of the 100 most borrowed books.

Cookson's The Thursday Friend and The Blind Years were the most frequently loaned titles.

She also took the fourth, fifth, sixth and 10th places, with The Solace Of Sin, The Lady On My Left, A House Divided and The Desert Crop.

Cookson has been the most-loaned author since the PLR began compiling its list, in 1987.

Rowling's other books are also highly ranked, with Chamber Of Secrets at eight, Philosopher's Stone at 13 and Prisoner of Azkaban at 17.

The only other author whose work ranks in the list of the 10 most-borrowed titles is Patricia Cornwell, whose Black Notice is at number nine.

The actual number of loans is not released by the PLR, which distributes payments to authors based on the number of loans.

Despite her fame, Rowling has never occupied the top spot even on the PLR's list of children's authors.

The trend seems to be for authors with a large body of work behind them to dominate the charts.

The news from UK libraries follows the revelation from a major Chinese publishing house that translated versions of four Harry Potter books have become the biggest-selling children's books in the country's history.

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