Category Archives: JK Rowling

May 10 NO comments
JK Rowling

Philosopher’s Stone manuscript on display

This is looking like the year for awesome Harry Potter memorabilia. The Telegraph has just released some exciting new information. The original manuscript of Harry Potter and the Philosopher/Sorceror’s Stone will be on display for the world to see. The British Library is hosting the Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands exhibit from May 11 until September 25 of this year. The pages from the story where Harry gets on the Hogwarts Express at Platform 9 3/4 will be on display as well. If you will be in the London area during this time and would like to purchase tickets, you can do so here. That would be an awesome thing to see. How do you feel about the manuscript being shown? Would you try and visit?

Apr 14 NO comments
JK Rowling, Pottermore

Pottermore.com is now open to everyone

After an awfully long wait and many problems, JK Rowling’s Pottermore website is now open to registration from everyone!

Up to now only a million beta testers had been able to access the website, which provides an interactive Harry Potter reading experience with lots of new written content from JK Rowling.

But now they have made all necessary technical upgrades and a few visible changes (including sounds), everyone who was left out of the beta can now experience the magic for themselves.

We also hope they’ll release more books soon, as currently only Book 1 is available. Watch a sneak peek clip of Pottermore below:

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Apr 12 NO comments
HP Encyclopaedia, JK Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

JK Rowling launches revamped website, reveals title and details of new book!

Update: some great news that we didn’t spot at first on JKR’s new site is in the FAQ’s where she confirms that she has ‘started work’ on a Harry Potter encyclopaedia! She notes that all royalties would go to charity, as with her previous HP companion books.

Woah, big news just came out of nowhere! JK Rowling just relaunched her website JKRowling.com, with a fantastic timeline of events in her career. Check it out here.

Also just announced is the title and some details of Jo’s new novel for adults! It is to be called The Casual Vacancy, will be released on 27th September 2012, will be 480 pages long, and is described as ‘blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising’. Agency Little, Brown released this:

Little, Brown Book Group announces that the new novel for adults by J.K. Rowling is entitled The Casual Vacancy.  The book will be published worldwide in the English language in hardback, ebook, unabridged audio download and on CD on Thursday 27th September 2012.

The Casual Vacancy

When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.

Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.

And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.