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November 5th, 2007, 09:25 PM
7 Copies Only - Bad news, fans: Rowling's new book is not for sale
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NEW TALES: Rowling handwrote and illustrated each of seven copies of her new book.
Harry Potter author J K Rowling has written a new book - her first since the final best-seller about the boy wizard came out earlier this year, she told BBC radio.
But most fans will not be able to buy a copy of The Tales Of Beedle The Bard - only seven copies will be produced, with six going to people involved with the Potter books, and a seventh being auctioned.
The book is a volume of five wizarding fairy tales left to Potter's friend Hermione Granger by headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the seventh and last Potter book, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, which came out in July. One of the tales appears in Deathly Hallows, but the remaining four are told for the first time.
Each copy of the book is handwritten and illustrated by Rowling on translucent vellum paper, and is leather bound and covered with silver and jewels.
Rowling said that writing the book had helped her to come to terms with the end of Potter. "It's like coming up from a deep dive I suppose," she said.
"I've been writing about the world. It's not about Harry, Ron and Hermione, but it comes from that world, so it's been therapeutic in a way, a nice way to say goodbye" although it was "very, very difficult" and "very, very, very sad" to end the series.
The author also revealed that she was working on a "half-finished book for children".
The seventh copy of The Tales Of Beedle The Bard will be auctioned by Sotheby's in London on 13 Dec in aid of Rowling's charity The Children's Voice, which campaigns to help vulnerable children across Europe.
Sotheby's estimate that the book will sell for up to £50,000 (S$150,000). – AFP/ym
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NEW TALES: Rowling handwrote and illustrated each of seven copies of her new book.
Harry Potter author J K Rowling has written a new book - her first since the final best-seller about the boy wizard came out earlier this year, she told BBC radio.
But most fans will not be able to buy a copy of The Tales Of Beedle The Bard - only seven copies will be produced, with six going to people involved with the Potter books, and a seventh being auctioned.
The book is a volume of five wizarding fairy tales left to Potter's friend Hermione Granger by headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the seventh and last Potter book, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, which came out in July. One of the tales appears in Deathly Hallows, but the remaining four are told for the first time.
Each copy of the book is handwritten and illustrated by Rowling on translucent vellum paper, and is leather bound and covered with silver and jewels.
Rowling said that writing the book had helped her to come to terms with the end of Potter. "It's like coming up from a deep dive I suppose," she said.
"I've been writing about the world. It's not about Harry, Ron and Hermione, but it comes from that world, so it's been therapeutic in a way, a nice way to say goodbye" although it was "very, very difficult" and "very, very, very sad" to end the series.
The author also revealed that she was working on a "half-finished book for children".
The seventh copy of The Tales Of Beedle The Bard will be auctioned by Sotheby's in London on 13 Dec in aid of Rowling's charity The Children's Voice, which campaigns to help vulnerable children across Europe.
Sotheby's estimate that the book will sell for up to £50,000 (S$150,000). – AFP/ym
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