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HBO, in association with Warner Bros. Television, has named Francesca Gardiner (HBO’s “Succession,�� “Killing Eve��)��as writer (showrunner) and executive producer and Mark Mylod (HBO’s “Succession,�� “Game of Thrones”��and “The Last of Us��) as executive producer and director of multiple episodes of the upcoming original Harry Potter series.

The series will be a faithful adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books and will feature a new cast to lead a new generation of fandom, full of the fantastic detail��and��characters��Potter fans have loved for over twenty-five years, while the original, classic and beloved films will remain available to watch globally.

Produced in association with Brontë Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television, the series is executive produced by J.K. Rowling, Neil Blair, Ruth Kenley-Letts; and��David Heyman for Heyday films.

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J.K. Rowling is amongst the contributors to a new book published today and edited by Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn. The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht is a collection of over thirty essays capturing an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots Scottish women’s movement, harking back to the suffragettes and second wave feminists of the 1970s and 1908s, took on the political establishment �� and changed the course of history.

In this book women tell the story of their involvement in the five-year campaign to protect women’s sex-based rights, including leading SNP MP Joanna Cherry, Ash Regan MSP, and former prison governor Rhona Hotchkiss.�� The book is published by Constable in hardback and eBook, and on 6th June in audiobook.

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Actress and Lumos Ambassador Evanna Lynch makes a heartfelt, personal appeal as she introduces Lumos and its work with vulnerable children to BBC Radio 4 listeners.

Evanna, best known for her role as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter movies, has been a passionate and dedicated Lumos Ambassador for many years.

She explains,

“I got involved in Lumos through J.K. Rowling, who founded the charity. As an actor in the Harry Potter films, I became very interested in the mission to give all children loving homes. I visited an orphanage and when I met the children, I saw there was no animation, no life or energy behind their eyes. They were so neglected.��

Since 2005, Lumos has helped hundreds of thousands of children to be returned to their families or to be placed in a loving family environment including more recently in Moldova, Ukraine, Kenya and Colombia.

Listen to the Appeal and donate through the BBC (donations accepted via the BBC until midnight on Saturday 25th May 2024):

OR Donate directly to Lumos:

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J.K. Rowling is often asked questions by fans and budding writers about her writing process: where she writes, how she writes, her inspiration and her research, how a book comes about, from the germ of an idea to the editing process and eventual publication.

For the first time, J.K. Rowling has responded to those questions, discussing openly and in depth about her writing including Harry Potter, her other children’s books The Ickabog and The Christmas Pig, as well as writing as Robert Galbraith, the Cormoran Strike crime fiction series.

The On Writing series will consist of three episodes,

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Pottermore Publishing and Audible have announced a brand-new co-production of the original Harry Potter stories, revisiting the beloved listening experience for the first time ever.

Scheduled for late 2025, these full-cast audio productions will bring these iconic stories to life as never heard before, offering immersive audio entertainment through high-quality sound design, a full range of character voices, and real-world sound capture.

Fans of the original Stephen Fry and Jim Dale audiobooks will be delighted to learn that their iconic narrations will remain available. But now, they will be joined by these new full-cast editions where almost every character in Harry’s��world��will have their own unique voice, giving listeners another way to hear the magic on Audible.

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Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are returning for the next instalment of STRIKE �� THE INK BLACK HEART, the sixth (4 x 60 minute) story of the BBC’s hit crime drama in co-production with HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery and based on J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novel written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Head to for more information.

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J.K. Rowling’s international children’s charity Lumos has launched their ��to coincide with the countdown to the festive season.

Their annual ‘Home for the Holidays Appeal�� focuses on the theme that��children belong at home, where they can enjoy the holidays and special moments throughout the year within a loving, supportive family.

With Lumos working with communities in countries like Ukraine, Moldova, Kenya and Colombia, their campaign demonstrates how community-based care is possible and beneficial for all, right across the globe.

Lilian Rose, Global Director of Fundraising and Engagement at Lumos said:

��By working with everyone, we can make a change—through raising��much-needed funds��to support care reform with local communities and��bring an end to children growing up in institutions��where they don’t belong.��

Lumos relies on supporters and donations from around the world to fund its work.�� Thanks to the generous support of J.K. Rowling and others, these funds go directly to protecting children around the world.

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The seventh book in the Cormoran Strike series, The Running Grave, has gone straight in at No1 in the bestseller lists in the UK, US and Australia after its first week being on sale.

Rave reviews include:

��The Running Grave is testimony to Rowling/Galbraith’s skill as a storyteller��

�� Guardian

‘It is moving, gripping and terrifying��

�� Daily Mail

‘a rich, immersive experience��

�� The Sunday Times

‘the kind of book you are happy to lose yourself in��

�� Scotsman

‘the best duo in detective fiction since Reginald Hill’s Dalziel and Pascoe��

�� Telegraph

‘another absolute barnstormer �� Unmissable��

�� Heat

And Strike fans are loving this new instalment �� The Running Grave is the highest rated Galbraith yet by reviewers on Amazon UK, with 4.7 stars out of 5.

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (otherwise known as J.K. Rowling) follows the No 1 bestseller from last year, The Ink Black Heart.

For more information visit the Robert Galbraith website .

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Almost 200 influential guests gathered in New York to celebrate the work of J.K. Rowling’s international children’s charity Lumos, with entertainment from some of the nation’s top emerging talent, at the City Winery on 21st September.

On the week of the annual UN General Assembly, where President Biden urged world leaders to stand firm in their support of Ukraine, the evening felt particularly poignant with reflections on Lumos’s efforts providing humanitarian aid and support for children and families in Ukraine. The event included a pre-recorded conversation between J.K. Rowling (Lumos Founder and Life President), Oksana Markarova (Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States of America) and Daria Herasymchuk (Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights and Child Rehabilitation), and on the urgent challenges and dangers facing children and families in conflict.

J.K. Rowling said during the conversation:

“Lumos has been dealing with the rapid evacuation of institutions in Ukraine, which has meant very vulnerable children becoming even more vulnerable in the chaos and carnage of war. Lumos has done a lot, and we’re happy about that, but there is clearly still so much more to do. The war is ongoing, and children are among the greatest sufferers.��

The event provided a call to action for people to donate to commit resources, and thanks to Honoree Sponsors, Warner Brothers Discovery and Scholastic, 100% of funds raised will go directly to support Lumos’s vital work.

For more information about the Lumos Illumination Dinner and Concert,

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In the 10th year since The Cuckoo’s Calling was published in 2013, the seventh book in the Cormoran Strike series, The Running Grave, is released today in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand, with other international markets coming soon.

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son,��Will,��has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.

The Universal Humanitarian Church is,��on the surface,��a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones,��and unexplained deaths.

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (otherwise known as J.K. Rowling) follows the No.1 bestseller from last year, The Ink Black Heart.

For more information,

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