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...The group’s consumer division will also publish new books in the expanding Harry Potter franchise — such as a new Wizarding Almanac this autumn....
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...Labour’s challenge: It will be hard for the UK economy to get any worse, but the bad news facing the next government is that it will also be hard to make it much better, writes Martin Wolf....
...According to a charge sheet seen by the Financial Times, the kickbacks allegedly included tickets to English Premier League football matches, Formula One races and plays including Harry Potter and the Cursed...
...It was also readers who discovered JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and who turned the romance novelist Colleen Hoover into a publishing powerhouse (and forced publishers to pay more attention to the thriving...
...Here, staged without vitrines, he hopes the audience will become acutely aware of their presence and role....
...Collectors will often argue: “They are not making them any more.” That does not mean something will be valuable. There is often a reason something is no longer made!...
...“Beyond Repair” by 85-year-old, Cambridgeshire-based potter Elspeth Owen brings together clay elements that will disintegrate during the six weeks of the biennial....
...As any brief study of museum antiquities in Athens, Rome or Berlin will testify, an appreciation of the reflexive relationship between cultures of the eastern and western Mediterranean, or human settlement...
...It’s a decision that will inevitably alienate some readers, but those who stay the course will find themselves rewarded with mesmerising prose, close to transcendent in its earthiness....
...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....
...For many others, it seems safe to assume, the lure of a Hogwarts homecoming will prove too strong....
...“If we don’t have work, the younger people are going to leave and we will lose our identity,” she says....
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