(Newswire.net — July 27, 2016) —British novelist, screenwriter, film producer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, has written a new book about the world famous boy wizard.
The new J.K. Rowling book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will be available in stores from midnight on July 31st. Barnes & Noble has already reported that the Cursed Child book is the most pre-ordered book since 2007 in the United States.
Amazon also reports that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is already its top US pre-order of 2016, in print and on Kindle.
This is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series, and it is more a script than a narrative novel. It will be published a day after the official opening of the London stage production of the same name.
The new J. K. Rowling story, and theater play, is set 19 years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It shows a grown-up Potter as an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic and father of three children who is grappling with his past.
Rowling decided to publish the book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for all who are not able to see the show in London.
Tickets for the show are sold out until May 2017. The show will also act as announcement for the movie adaptation of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which audience will be able to watch on big screen from November, and follows the opening of the Harry Potter theme park at Universal Studio in Los Angeles, Reuters reports.
The Harry Potter series, chronicles the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The seven books have sold over 450 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 79 languages. The movie franchise has grossed more than $7 billion worldwide.
The seventh, and last book in the best-selling series, was published nine year ago, on July 21st, 2007. The book sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release, 2.7 million copies in the UK and 8.3 million in the US.