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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The talk-show titan, who's amassed $1.5 billion over the course of her impressive career, has bested Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart
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The seventh and final Harry Potter book sells a record 11 million copies in the UK and US in its first 24 hours.
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A get-well-soon letter written by Queen Elizabeth II as an 11-year-old girl was sold for 1,140 pounds at auction Thursday -- double its original asking price.
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Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury unveils plans to eke extra revenue from JK Rowling's phenomenon.
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A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $4 million at auction Thursday. The buyer, Web retailer Amazon.com Inc., now owns one of only seven copies of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," which is leather bound with silver mounts.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling, will be published in July next year. The BBC News website examines the money-making machine the teenage wizard has become.
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A handwritten copy of author JK Rowling's new book, which will never be published, sells for almost Â£2m.
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A hand-written, illustrated book of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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The archive of Britain's leading writer and playwright, Harold Pinter, has been acquired by the British Library for Â£1.1m.
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HARRY Potter author JK Rowling gave fans an early Christmas gift yesterday by revealing her new book will be published on July 16.
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The final book in the series by J.K. Rowling sold a record 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale in the U.S.
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Nearly 1.6m copies of the final Harry Potter book have been ordered online ahead of its release later this month.
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"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has given birth to a baby girl, a Scottish hospital said. The 39-year-old British author, who shot to fame with the publication of the popular boy-wizard fantasy book series, gave birth to her third child at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Sunday, a hospital spokesman said. The baby girl hasn't been named.
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SINGAPORE: British author J.K. Rowling has completed the manuscript for another Harry Potter book.
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A campaign launched Monday to extend the globally popular Harry Potter series received a boost after author J.K. Rowling declared &quot;never say never&quot; about writing another book.
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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 ...