Stephen King's next novel is about JFK assassination

Stephen King's next novel will look at the assassination of President Kennedy.

The 1000-page book, which will come out in November, will be called 11/22/63 - the title named for the day of Kennedy's murder in Dallas, Texas.

King, who has been sdescribed by Lee Child as "America's greatest living novelist", has written a fictional account of a high school teacher's desperate effort to prevent the tragedy. The book will be published on 8 November 2011 and UK rights have been bought by Hodder.

The book will focus on Jake Epping, a 35-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. His friend Al reveals that his storeroom is a portal to 1958, and enlists Jake on a mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. Jake becomes George Amberson, and enters a world of Elvis and JFK, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and high school librarian Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life, "a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time".

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