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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child story already a US best-seller

Published Tue, Jul 26, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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HARRY Potter is casting a spell, again, over the publishing industry. Nine years after the publication of the seventh and last book in the best-selling boy wizard series, pre-orders for the script of a new, sold-out London play is the most pre-ordered book since 2007 in the US, retail book sellers Barnes & Noble said on Monday.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is billed as the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and is to be published at midnight on July 31.

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