8th 'Harry Potter' book coming out in July

Originally written as a staged play, the script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, would be released 19 years after the last harry potter book.

David Shelley, chief executive of Little, Brown, said on Wednesday that Rowling and her team had received many requests from fans who cannot see the play to publish it in book form: “We are absolutely delighted to be able to make it available for them,” he said.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is being dubbed as the "eighth story" in the series. It's set 19 years after her seventh, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in which Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione save Hogwarts and the wizarding world from the dark magic of Lord Voldemort.

A description of the new volume reads: "It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.

"While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places."

Just days after the announcement, J.K Rowling made No 1 on Amazon and Waterstones’s bestseller lists.

Both the print and eBook versions will be published on 31 July 2016, following the play's world premiere on the 30 July.

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