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The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne.Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London's West End on 30th July 2016.

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.J.K. Rowling is the author of the seven Harry Potter novels, which have sold over 450 million copies and have been translated into 79 languages, and three companion books originally published for charity. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults published in 2012, and, under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, is the author of the Cormoran Strike crime series. J.K. Rowling is making her screen writing debut and is a producer on the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a further extension of the Wizarding World, due for release in November 2016.

Jack Thorne writes for theatre, film, television and radio. His theatre credits include Hope and Let The Right One In both directed by John Tiffany, The Solid Life of Sugarwater for the Graeae Theatre Company, Bunny for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stacy for the Trafalgar Studios, 2nd May 1997 and When You Cure Me for the Bush. His adaptations include The Physicists for the Donmar Warehouse and Stuart: A Life Backwards for Hightide. On film his credits include War Book, A Long Way Down and The Scouting Book for Boys. For television his credits include The Last Panthers, Don't Take My Baby, This Is England, The Fades, Glue and Cast-Offs and the upcoming National Treasure. In 2012 he won BAFTAs for best series (The Fades) and best serial (This Is England '88).

John Tiffany directed Once for which he was the recipient of multiple awards both in the West End and on Broadway. As Associate Director of the Royal Court, his work includes The Twits, Hope and The Pass. He was the director of Let The Right One In for the National Theatre of Scotland, which transferred to the Royal Court, West End and St. Ann's Warehouse. His other work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes Macbeth (also Broadway), Enquirer, The Missing, Peter Pan, The House of Bernarda Alba, Transform Caithness: Hunter, Be Near Me, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, The Bacchae, Black Watch, for which he won the Olivier and Critics' Circle Best Director Awards, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn and Home: Glasgow. Other recent credits include The Glass Menagerie at A.R.T and on Broadway and The Ambassador at BAM. Tiffany was Associate Director of the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012, and was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University in the 2010-2011 academic year.The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne.The Harry Potter series, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories and translated into 79 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster filmsHarry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story, set nineteen years after Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, featuring beloved characters Harry, Ron and Hermoine as adults

FOUR MILLION COPIES SOLD. In 40 languages. One of the most thrilling series of our time.

In this magnificent new epic, destined to become a classic, bestselling Australian author Lian Hearn transports us to a mythical Japanese world set 300 years before TALES OF THE OTORI.Like George R. R. Martin, Lian Hearn has captivated millions of readers worldwide with her masterpiece of imagination, TALES OF THE OTORI. Now, against a dazzling canvas of wild forest, elegant court and savage battlefield, she brilliantly brings to life the world that existed 300 years earlier.

Hearn weaves an intricate tapestry - seething with intrigue, adventure and love - of two rival clans struggling over who will be crowned Emperor of the Eight Islands, in a medieval Japanese country inhabited by warriors, assassins, ghosts and guardian spirits. And as the laws of destiny play out their inexorable drama, so the battle for the Lotus Throne begins.

Coming soon

LORD OF THE DARKWOOD: Books 3 and 4 in THE TALE OF SHIKANOKO.

Praise for TALES OF THE OTORI:

'One of the most thrilling series of our time.' THE TIMES

'The best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense since Philip Pullman.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'A classic in the making. A tour de force of pure storytelling. Rich with character and detail, yet effortless to read.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

'An engrossing fantasy saga of literary quality.' THE AGE

Don't miss any of the novels in the OTORI saga

ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR

GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW

BRILLIANCE OF THE MOON

THE HARSH CRY OF THE HERON

HEAVEN'S NET IS WIDEOne of the most thrilling series of our time. - The Times on TALES OF THE OTORIThe best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense since Philip Pullman. - Independent On Sunday on TALES OF THE OTORIA classic in the making. - Sydney Morning Herald on GRASS FOR HIS PILLOWAn engrossing fantasy saga of literary quality. - The Age on TALES OF THE OTORIAn enthralling and original work of fantasy. - The Times on TALES OF THE OTORILian Hearn's marvellous storytelling talent makes reading these books a moment of pure bliss. - Le Monde on TALES OF THE OTORIA tour de force of pure storytelling. - Sydney Morning Herald on THE HARSH CRY OF THE HERONRich with character and detail, yet effortless to read. - Sydney Morning Herald on HEAVEN'S NET IS WIDELian Hearn's beloved Tales of the Otori series, set in an imagined feudal Japan, has sold more than four million copies worldwide and has been translated into nearly forty languages. It is comprised of five volumes: ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW, BRILLIANCE OF THE MOON, THE HARSH CRY OF THE HERON and HEAVEN'S NET IS WIDE. The series was followed by two standalone novels, BLOSSOMS AND SHADOWS and THE STORYTELLER AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS, also set in Japan. EMPEROR OF THE EIGHT ISLANDS is Books 1 and 2 in The Tale of Shikanoko and is followed by LORD OF THE DARKWOOD (Books 3 and 4). Lian has made many trips to Japan and has studied Japanese. She read Modern Languages at Oxford and worked as an editor and film critic in England before emigrating to Australia. For the latest news from Lian, visit lianhearn.com, follow Lian on Twitter @LianHearn, or join the readers who have become Lian's friend on Facebook.FOUR MILLION COPIES SOLD. In 40 languages. One of the most thrilling series of our time.

In this magnificent new epic, destined to become a classic, bestselling Australian author Lian Hearn transports us to a mythical Japanese world set 300 years before TALES OF THE OTORI.Combined ANZ sales: 386k (of OTORI series). It's been 8 years since the final OTORI novel so this is the long-awaited return to the country where OTORI is set.EMPEROR OF THE EIGHT ISLANDS consists of Books 1 and 2 in THE TALE OF SHIKANOKO.LORD OF THE DARKWOOD (August release) is Books 3 and 4 in THE TALE OF SHIKANOKO.2016 is the Year of Lian Hearn. Supported by the year's biggest marketing and publicity campaign for an Australian brand author.Will be loved by fans of GAME OF THRONES, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, THE HUNGER GAMES, David Mitchell, Philip Pullman. Crosses genres and reading tastes, appealing to dedicated fantasy fans, historical thriller, action adventure, literary and general fiction (commercial) readers.Five-book backlist repackages release 6 weeks earlier sharing new iconic cover style as frontlist.

Life is sweet in this heartwarming tale of a little chocolate shop in Paris, by the bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Mouth-watering recipes inside!

As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work; mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate; made entirely by hand, it is sold to the grandes dames of Paris.

It's a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in at home in the north of England. But when an accident changed everything, Anna was thrown back in touch with her French teacher, Claire, who offered her the chance of a lifetime - to work in Paris with her former sweetheart, Thierry, a master chocolatier.

With old wounds about to be uncovered and healed, Anna is set to discover more about real chocolate - and herself - than she ever dreamed.Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including Christmas at the Cupcake Caf and Little Beach Street Bakery, which are also published by Sphere. Meet Me at the Cupcake Caf won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, as was Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams, which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013. Jenny is married with three children and lives in Scotland. For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter: @jennycolgan.Life is sweet in this heartwarming tale of a little chocolate shop in Paris, by the bestselling author Jenny Colgan.A winning formula with the irresistible extra ingredients of Paris and chocolateAll in one highly desirable package, a must-have purchase for women everywhereJenny Colgan is a UK bestseller, with over 1.5 million books sold.

A captivating, slyly brilliant debut by the award-winning author of EAST OF THE WEST.

In his mesmerising first novel, the internationally celebrated short-story writer Miroslav Penkov spins the intriguing tale of an American student who returns to Bulgaria, the country he left as a child. His mission is to track down his grandfather and to find out why he suddenly cut off all contact with the family three years before.

The trail leads him to a remote village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains - a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he is drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths. And here, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. Old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts blaze anew, until the past finally yields up its plangent secrets.

A Bulgarian Don Quixote fighting windmills, his Sancho Panza a lost American grandson, and Dulcinea a Turk overfond of smoking dope. Add a smattering of Christian firewalkers, a touch of Muslim clerics, thousands of hysterical storks who deliver more secrets than babies. What you get is a marvel of a novel. Penkov has written a rollicking, poignant delight. - Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award Finalist and author of An Unnecessary Woman

I can't speak to Miroslav Penkov's standing among Bulgarian novelists, but now that I've read Stork Mountain, it is easy to say that Penkov is my favorite novelist publishing in America. - Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk

PRAISE FOR EAST OF THE WEST, WINNER OF THE BBC SHORT STORY AWARD 2012: - -

Humour, poignancy, tenderness and a deep sense of European history suffuse these lovely stories by a young Bulgarian writer of whom more will surely be heard. - Sunday Telegraph

Penkov's stories combine toughness, vulnerability and bravado . . . he applies humour and compassion in equal measure: this is a sparkling collection. - Guardian

Every once in a while, but no more often than that, a first book by a young writer comes along to restore a reader's faith . . . Penkov's stories are ironic without being trite, melancholic, but with a whiff of whimsy . . . a considerable, quirky, new talent. - Canberra Times

Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He moved to the United States in 2001 on a scholarship to study psychology at the University of Arkansas, where he subsequently gained an MFA in creative writing.

His stories have won the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in journals and anthologies including Granta, The Best American Short Stories (edited by Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor) and The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. Published in more than a dozen countries, his collection East of the West was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction.

Penkov teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is the editor-in-chief of the American Literary Review.

A captivating, slyly brilliant debut by the award-winning author of EAST OF THE WEST.

EAST OF THE WEST: Miroslav Penkov received great acclaim for his collection of stories East of the West, described as 'intensely personal and moving' (The Age, Australia) and selected by Salman Rushdie for Best American Short Stories in 2008. He also won the BBC International Short Story Award in 2012.

DEBUT: This is his debut novel and will confirm him as a highly talented young author with prize-winning potential.

UNIQUE SETTING: A unique and vivid insight into a little-known part of the world: mountainous, rural Bulgaria, close to the border with Turkey. Addresses themes of political and social unrest in the Balkan states.

APPEAL: Weaves myth and history into a modern-day story , a combination that will appeal to readers of Tea Obreht's THE TIGER'S WIFE, A.S. Byatt's RAGNAROK and Hanan Al-Shaykh's ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS.

PASSION SHARED: Proofs available

Previous title: EAST OF THE WEST (978144473373)

Set in a crumbling hospital in the 1850s, Beloved Poison is richly atmospheric and features cross-dressing apothecary Jem Flockhart.The object I drew out was dusty and mildewed, and blotched with dark rust-coloured stains. It smelt of time and decay, sour, like old books and parchments. The light from the chapel's stained glass window blushed red upon it, and upon my hands, as if the thing itself radiated a bloody glow.

Ramshackle and crumbling, trapped in the past and resisting the future, St Saviour's Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors the doctors bicker and fight. Ambition, jealousy and hatred seethe beneath the veneer of professional courtesy. Always an outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide, apothecary Jem Flockhart observes everything, but says nothing.

And then six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of mouldering rags. When Jem comes across these strange relics hidden inside the infirmary's old chapel, her quest to understand their meaning prises open a long-forgotten past - with fatal consequences.

In a trail that leads from the bloody world of the operating theatre and the dissecting table to the notorious squalor of Newgate and the gallows, Jem's adversary proves to be both powerful and ruthless. As St Saviour's destruction draws near, the dead are unearthed from their graves whilst the living are forced to make impossible choices. And murder is the price to be paid for the secrets to be kept.E. S. Thomson was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire. She has a PhD in the history of medicine and works as a university lecturer in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award and the Scottish Arts Council First Book Award. Elaine lives in Edinburgh with her two sons.Set in a crumbling hospital in the 1850s, Beloved Poison is richly atmospheric and features cross-dressing apothecary Jem Flockhart.Reminiscent of Andrew Miller's Pure, winner of the 2012 CostaSupported by a huge marketing campaignShortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award and the Scottish Arts Council First Book Award

A new must-read crime series for fans of Mark Billingham and Sarah Hilary: introducing Harry Kent, a police surgeon working with the Met, determined to help those the world would rather brush aside.Dr Harry Kent likes to keep busy: juggling hospital duties with his work as a police surgeon for the Metropolitan Police - anything to ward off the memories of his time as an Army medic.

Usually the police work means minor injuries and mental health assessments. But Solomon Idris's case is different. Solomon Idris has taken eight people hostage in a chicken takeaway, and is demanding to see a lawyer and a BBC reporter. Harry is sent in to treat the clearly ill teenager...before the siege goes horribly wrong.

When Solomon's life is put in danger again from the safety of a critical care ward, it becomes clear he knows something people will kill to protect.

Determined to uncover the secret that drove the boy to such desperate action, Harry soon realises that someone in the medical world, someone he may even know, has broken the doctors' commandment 'do no harm' many times over...Rob McCarthy is a medical student in his fourth year of study, who started writing crime novels when the neuroanatomy textbooks threatened to take his sanity. He lives in South London, where he spends his time eating, drinking, learning, reading, writing, cycling and occasionally sleeping. He is currently working on two more stories featuring Dr Harry Kent.A new must-read crime series for fans of Mark Billingham and Sarah Hilary: introducing Harry Kent, a police surgeon working with the Met, determined to help those the world would rather brush aside.A fresh take on the crime drama, a brilliant new voice in this genre, and the perfect mix of medical thriller and procedural.The author is only 24 - he has a long and bright future ahead of him, and THE HOLLOW MEN is the first in the Harry Kent series.TV rights in the series optioned by See Saw - the company that produced TOP OF THE LAKE.Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Val McDermid, and watchers of medical dramas from ER to Silent Witness.