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...Shares in Bloomsbury Publishing hit a record on Wednesday as the group best known for backing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series hailed fantasy author Sarah J Maas as a “publishing phenomenon” helping to turbocharge...
...She remembers the delay of several years between the release of each new Harry Potter book, and she wants to save her fans that wait....
...The publisher of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series expects revenue for the year ending February 29 to be ahead of market expectations at more than £291mn, and profit before tax and “highlighted items” to...
...Maas and Samantha Shannon growing 79 per cent and 169 per cent in the period, and demand for Harry Potter, 26 years after publication, remaining strong....
...Newton pointed to the “huge” growth in fantasy novels, with sales of books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha Shannon growing 79 per cent and 169 per cent respectively in the period and demand for Harry Potter...
...It’s the big play on Broadway right now, and it has Harry Potter in it, Daniel Radcliffe. And part of what’s unique about that play is that the entire thing goes back in time....
...Bloomsbury reported record full-year sales and profits on Wednesday, helped by 51 per cent sales growth in the Throne of Glass series author Sarah J. Maas’ books....
...Every year, the bestseller lists feature celebrity memoirs and works by dazzling and established literary stars — but also reader-driven surprises, from Sarah J Maas’s romantic fantasy series, including...
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...But in a bookselling duel, Harry Potter has the advantage. Fiction sells better than non fiction — especially in the age of #booktok, the TikTok hashtag....
...Sales growth was boosted by the success of the series by fantasy author Sarah J Maas....
...The group, which publishes JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, said there was increased demand for books by fantasy fiction authors such as Sarah J Maas, prompting it to upgrade its forecasts....
...I also like the look of a colourful 1930s still life by New Zealand painter Frederick J Porter, previously sold by Tony Bradshaw’s former London gallery The Bloomsbury Workshop (est £400-£600)....
...Nor will readers find characters in whom they see themselves or their own experiences, such as the schoolchildren in the Harry Potter books....
...Bloomsbury offset that risk by investing profits from the Harry Potter franchise into professional and academic publishing, which has higher and more predictable margins....
...That was clear this week at Bloomsbury, publisher of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books, along with the Crescent City fantasy series by Sarah J Maas and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s reworking of...
...“In February, the final month of our financial year, Bloomsbury delivered exceptional sales, in part driven by Sarah J....
...It attributed the rise in part to “exceptional sales” of author Sarah J Maas’s new novel House of Sky and Breath, part of the Crescent City series....
...He is showing studio pottery made by the 20th-century British potters Lucie Rie and Bernard Leach and Japanese potter Shoji Hamada along with magisterial vessels by Peter Voulkos, the postwar American potter...
...Lockdowns boosted demand for everything from the fantasy escapism of Sarah J. Maas to insights on racism by Reni Eddo-Lodge....
...Initiatives included switching some urgent US print runs to the UK, such as printing works by the best-selling American fantasy novelist Sarah J Maas in Kent....
...John J Parman moesbooks.com Molho, Thessaloniki “My wife and I visited it in 2000 and spent a memorable hour with René Molho herself....
...The company said recently published novels that had sold well included A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas and Outlawed by Anna North, while the Harry Potter books were still popular....
...The company’s recently published novels, including A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas and Outlawed by Anna North, have sold well, it said, as had cookbook Dishoom, written by chefs at the London-based...
...J Balvin, Maluma, Karol G. The biggest success story has been Bad Bunny. He’s a Puerto Rican rapper whose music is described as part reggaeton, part Latin trap....
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