Amazon.co.uk has revealed that a new limited edition book set will be released on December 4th. The set will cost £552.00 and is limited to 3000 copies worldwide. The set is available for pre-order on Amazon UK, it is unknown if the set will be available anywhere else. The description is as follows:
Worthy of a vault at Gringotts, this amazing limited edition collection features never-before-published art and text chronicling the making of the Harry Potter films. The set is limited to just 3,000 copies worldwide.
Five volumes focus on the filmmaking, showing how the team designed locations, graphics, costumes, creatures, and special effects. Inside you’ll find a deluxe book of the paintings of Hogwarts along with a keepsake book chronicling the lasting relationships between cast and crew. The final volume is a cloth-bound edition of the New York Times Best-seller, Harry Potter: Page to Screen. Completing the library is a scale prop replica of The Monster Book of Monsters, along with a gilded, oversized portfolio with five frame-able prints of concept art. All of these precious objects are housed in a collectible box that looks like it came from Diagon Alley. Arriving at your doorstep with a numbered certificate of authenticity, this limited edition is the ultimate collectible for any wizard of Muggle.
Product Features:
• A deluxe cloth-covered case, styled to look like a box from a shop in Diagon Alley
• A replica of The Monster Book of Monsters film prop
• A gilded portfolio of five frame-able prints of original Harry Potter concept art.
• A cloth-bound edition of Harry Potter: Page to Screen
• 7 additional volumes detailing the Harry Potter creative team’s ten years of extensive efforts:
* The Creature Shop Compendium: Flora and Fauna from the Harry Potter Films
* Environments Envisioned: Building Fantastic Sets and Scouting Dramatic Locations
* A Guide to the Graphic Arts Department: Posters, Prints, and Publications from the Harry Potter Films
* Movie Magic: Practical Props and Exciting Effects
* The Paintings of Hogwarts: Masterpieces from the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Sets
* Ten Years Later: Life on Set with the Harry Potter Cast and Crew
* Wizard Wear and Muggle Attire: Costuming the World of Harry Potter
Sony Playstation has released a new video for Harry Potter Wonderbook: Book of Spells, which will be available on November 13th. It has been revealed that the game will be available as a bundle including the Book of Spells game, Wonderbook peripheral, PlayStation Eye camera and a PlayStation Move motion controller. That bundle will cost $79.99, if fans wish to purchase only the game, it will cost $39.99.
The publishers of J.K. Rowling’s new book, The Casual Vacancy, have announced a book tour that she will be participating in. Rowling is scheduled to appear on ABC’s Nightline, World News and Good Morning America, as well as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central. She will also do two print interviews, one USA TODAY.
Publishers have revealed that they are approaching the release of this book differently than in the past with the Potter books. Although those older readers who were with Harry from the beginning are said to be the main audience, the book has a much darker tone that than of Harry Potter.
Set in the little English town of Pagford, The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown, $35) revolves around an election held after a member of the parish council unexpectedly dies. Despite the Miss Marple terrain, press materials describe the novel as “blackly comic … Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war.”
“I expect the world to be ecstatic at the range of her imaginative reach,” predicts Rowling’s American publisher, Michael Pietsch. One of the few to have read the embargoed book, he calls Rowling “a genius, one of the great writers of all time.” Reading the 512-page novel, he says, “reminded me of Dickens because of the humanity, the humor, the social concerns, the intensely real characters.”
Part of the reason for this is because J.K. Rowling wants to separate this book from the Potter series,
Barnes & Noble vice president for marketing Patricia Bostelman says that Little, Brown’s approach is what the author wants. “Apparently much of their behavior is at J.K. Rowling’s wishes,” says Bostelman. Rowling “has very strong opinions on how she wants publishing of the book handled. … She’s trying not to live on the laurels of Harry Potter and very much wants to have this book stand alone, on its own merit, just as if she were just any other author who was landing on the scene.”
The book will be released on September 27th. They are even releasing an e-book version simultaneously for $19.99.
According to Shelf Life, Entertainment Weekly’s book website, J.K. Rowling will be taking part in a live chat this Fall! On October 16th, Rowling will be making a very rare rare public appearance in the US to discuss The Casual Vacancy. Ann Patchett, a fellow author, will be joining her for a conversation in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City.
Tickets, which will be available starting September 10th, include a copy of the book, releasing on September 27th:
$43 if purchased online:
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$44 if purchased via phone:
CenterCharge: 212.721.6500
TTY: 212.957.1709
Open daily 10:00 am–9:00 pm
$37 if purchased at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office:
Broadway at 60th Street
Monday–Saturday: 10:00 am–6:00 pm, Sunday: noon–6:00 pm
Harry Potter companion books, Quidditch through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, are now available as e-books in the Pottermore Shop. J.K. Rowling wrote these books back in 2001 to help raise money for Comic Relief, the e-books will still benefit the charity. According to the Pottermore Insider:
These two additions are essential for readers keen on indulging their interest in the game of Quidditch and expanding their knowledge of magical creatures. They can now be found in the new collection on the Pottermore Shop – Hogwarts Library Books
Quidditch through the Ages, by Kennilworthy Whisp, is one of the most popular titles in the Hogwarts school library. Now you can learn about Quidditch history too. Would you like to know about some of the seven hundred Quidditch fouls that have taken place? Or learn about the more difficult Quidditch moves? Then this is the book for you.
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander, is a duplicate of Harry Potter’s own copy and provides a useful guide to both the mundane and the more unusual magical creatures found in the wizarding world. It comes complete with additional informative notes from Harry and his friends.
Both texts are currently available as part of your eBook collection in English (US and UK editions), and all proceeds from the purchases of these eBooks from the Pottermore Shop will be donated to Comic Relief.
J.K. Rowling will be doing a public reading of her newest book, The Casual Vacancy, on September 27th in London’s Southbank Centre. This will not be a midnight release party, as we have come to know from Jo, but will be at 7:30pm. She will also have a Q&A session with the audience and sign copies of the books at the event! Tickets for the event can be purchased here.
She is also set to attend The Times Cheltenham Literature Festivalon October 6th at The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse in the UK to discuss (and sign copies of) The Casual Vacancy. To book tickets, £15 (£13.50 for Cheltenham Festivals Members,) please visit their website!
J.K. Rowling will be in conversation with documentary film-maker James Runcie, to discuss The Casual Vacancy. This unmissable event will offer Festival visitors a rare opportunity to meet one of the bestselling authors of our time.
Pagford is apparently an English idyll – but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. In The Casual Vacancy J.K. Rowling has written a big novel about a small town, as a parish council election becomes fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations. A storyteller like no other, she joins James Runcie for a rare appearance to discuss her writing.
J.K. Rowling will be signing copies of The Casual Vacancy after the event. In order to allow as many audience members as possible to have their book signed, signing will be limited to one copy only.
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