Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince has over 650 pages, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has over 750, so it’s no surprise that a new Potter-centric bibliography would boast a hefty 544 page count.
Written by by author and Sotheby’s director for children’s books Philip Errington, the hefty tome is the new J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography 1997-2013, which details some of the behind-the-scenes action that occurred during the creation of the wildly-popular series.
The book has not yet been released in the U.S., but The Guardian has read it and doled out a few highlights from the book. Included in the mix is the fact that after rounds of revisions and edits on her third Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling wrote her editor to say, “I’ve read this book so much I’m sick of it.” She later confessed that she would be “hard put to smile when it comes to doing public readings from it.” Luckily no one else seemed to agree, as the book went on to become the eighth bestselling book of all time.
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