The biggest ever game of literary hide-and-seek has now launched. The much-awaited new novel from Stephen King, UNDER THE DOME, has been broken into more than 5,000 snippets to be scattered across hundreds of websites and locations throughout the UK. This is your opportunity to piece the book back together before its general release on 10th November. The person to find the highest number of snippets and the person judged to hide their snippet in the most original way will win a night in a 4-star central London hotel to read the book, before general release.

Extracts have already been hidden on GQ.com and across the web – visit Twitter and www.stephenking.co.uk to gather clues. Now it’s your job to continue hiding, and start finding the pieces.

We are also hosting a creative writing competition to give aspiring writers the chance to have their piece of work judged by King himself.

UNDER THE DOME is King’s most epic creation since THE STAND. On an entirely normal autumn day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible and impenetrable force field

Visit www.stephenking.co.uk and follow us on Twitter to start your search. Good luck!