It ’s not a biography , it ’s a bibliography , but a newfangled Holy Scripture about J.K. Rowling is so detailed the writer herself calls it “ slavishly thorough and reasonably nous - boggling . ” The reference loudness direct to be the unequivocal publishing story of the Harry Potter series .
J.K. Rowling : A Bibliography 1997 - 2013 is described by publisherBloomsburyas “ the classical bibliography of the writing of J. K. Rowling . ”
The contents of this hulking volume , which also include 122 colouring material images , are name by Bloomsbury so :
In add-on to complete bibliographic detail of each edition of all her books , pamphlets and original contribution to published works , there is detailed entropy on the publication history of her piece of work , include bewitching extracts from correspondence , and info on Rowling at auction . This will be the first source on Rowling confer by textual scholar , record dealers and collector , auction house , critics and researchers . The design of the book is to record fact and dispel rumor on the gripping publishing history of the Harry Potter serial .
An article on the new book ( whose author , Philip Errington , is the Director for Children ’s Books at Sotheby ’s ) in theGuardianreveals a few of its juicier tidbits , including the cloak - and - dagger measures get when Rowling ’s agent needed to communicate the ms of Harry Potter and the rules of order of the Phoenix to her publisher at the height of Pottermania :
[ Agent Christopher ] Little summon [ Bloomsbury chief exec Nigel ] Newton to The Pelican saloon in Fulham for a drink … Newton knew the confluence could be pregnant , as the location was where Little had give birth the previous book to Bloomsbury . “ So I drove to The Pelican , a pub off the Fulham Road not far from Stamford Bridge , in a state of high alert . And I went in and there was a massive Sainsbury ’s plastic carrier handbag at this invertebrate foot … he enunciate nothing about that and I read nothing and he just said ‘ Drink ? ’ and I enjoin , ‘ a pint , please ’ . So we stood at the measure and drink our pints and aver nothing about Harry Potter . But when we left I walk out with the carrier bag . It was a classic dead letter bead , ” [ Newton told Errington ] .
“ So I put this bag into the back of my motorcar and drive it home . By this level the serial publication was so enormous that I was almost frightened to be in physical willpower of it … I jostle it under the bed . I had another typescript sit there … so I stuffed [ the ] top four page of David Guterson ’s East of the Mountains on the top and then rest up all night read it , which my married woman did find a number odd … There was no dubiousness of showing any of it to her . Even then I was putting bits of it in the secure . ”
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