JK Rowling manuscript fetches 1.95 million pounds
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A hand-written and illustrated tale of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) -- nearly 40 times its expected price -- at auction on Thursday.
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J.K. Rowling has completed her first book since she finished her blockbusting series of Harry Potter novels which have sold 400 million copies world-wide.  Fans hoping to lay their hands on the latest work are, however, doomed to disappointment...
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The sixth book in the children&#39;s series by JK Rowling rocketed to the top of the best-seller charts on Amazon&#39;s US and UK websites, although it will not be published for another seven months.
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Films based on characters  by UK authors have contributed Â£6.7bn to the world box office, figures reveal.
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British supermarket chain Asda apologized to the publisher of the Harry Potter books on Tuesday, having accused it earlier of "blatant profiteering" for charging 17.99 pounds ($36) for the last novel in the series.
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Best-selling children's author J. K. Rowling has given fans of her Harry Potter books a brief but tantalising taster of the next title in the series chronicling the boy wizard's adventures, a report said.
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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A rare first edition of a Harry Potter book sells for Â£9,000 at an auction in London.
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The publishers of Harry Potter corrected an error in one of JK Rowling's books after readers spotted a mistake.
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The publisher of the Harry Potter books called in the lawyers after a British supermarket chain accused it of "blatant profiteering" for charging 17.99 pounds ($36) for the final novel in the series.
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The seventh and final Harry Potter book became the fastest-selling work in British history by shifting over two and a half million copies during its first 24 hours on sale, the publisher said Monday.
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An 800-year-old copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, is sold for a world record price of Â£1,140,500 at a London auction.
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The publisher of the Harry Potter books  called in the lawyers after a British supermarket chain accused  it of &quot;blatant profiteering&quot; for charging 17.99 pounds ($36)  for the final novel in the series.
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By Paula Murray  HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling will hold a midnight reading from the last book of the boy wizard's adventures for 500 lucky fans.
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A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the title page, was sold to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie's auction house.
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A rare signed first edition Harry Potter book sells for Â£19,700 at Christie's auction house in London.
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The focus of her millions of fans is on the actual contents of JK Rowling&#39;s sixth Potter saga Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.