Making a demon of JK Rowling is a wretched sport, born of misogyny and resentment | Catherine Bennett

Publication of her latest detective novel has triggered a storm of hatred and abuse The most powerful way to attack a book, Salman Rushdie writes in his memoir, Joseph Anton, "is to demonise its author, to turn him into a creature of base motives and evil intentions". The same thing, it turns out, can be said of a "her". Now that Twitter content doubles as news, you don't need to be a member of that habitually irate community to have gathered that Troubled Blood, the new Cormoran Strike detectiv...