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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...
...Sarah Janet Maas’s interest in fantasy took off in the wake of the September 11 attacks....
...In the UK, Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury in February raised its profit outlook following strong sales of the latest Maas novel released in January....
...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...
...Contributions from Benjamin Wilhelm, Tee Zhuo and Sarah Ebner...
...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...
...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....
...When Sarah Watson, founder of bathroom furniture and fixtures brand Balineum, began making tiles 10 years ago, she turned to a small factory in Stoke-on-Trent to combine traditional techniques with contemporary...
...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....
...Marigold is making a 2.5m-long cabinet for Sarah Myerscough Gallery to exhibit at PAD London design fair from October 10-15....
...Sales growth was boosted by the success of the series by fantasy author Sarah J Maas....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...Together with other New Yorkers – socialites Muffie Potter Aston and Blaine Trump, and film producer Sarah Arison among them – Fales-Hill is committed to adding “kids of colour to the school, as well as...
...These are people who continued writing stories with the Harry Potter characters. Or they’re extending Star Trek. Or they’re writing another season of the TV show Firefly....
...Principally, a £650 pigeon that has been spotted on Sarah Jessica Parker’s arm....
...But as the author Sarah Jackson argues, technologies aren’t inherently good or evil. They are just tools....
...Bloomsbury offset that risk by investing profits from the Harry Potter franchise into professional and academic publishing, which has higher and more predictable margins....
...He is a joker who once invoked Harry Potter’s bank Gringotts on an analyst call to relieve his boredom and a disciplinarian known to lock colleagues out of meetings if they are late....
...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....
...In the 1980s, this traditional house was the summer getaway of Sarah Trad’s family, a place her mum loved to fill with friends....
...He potters about his neat kitchen, finding cups, straightening up....
...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....
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