Rowling writes first book since Potter finale

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has written a new book, her first since the final best-seller about the boy wizard came out earlier this year, she told BBC radio Thursday.

But most fans will not be able to buy a copy of "The Tales Of Beedle The Bard" -- just seven copies of the work will be produced, with six going to people involved with the Potter books, and a seventh being auctioned.

The book is the volume of five wizarding fairy tales left to Potter's friend Hermione Granger by headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the seventh and last Potter book, "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", which came out in July.

One of the tales -- a distillation of the themes of the seven Potter works -- appears in "Deathly Hallows", but the remaining four are...

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