Writing

The first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published in 1997 to immediate popular and critical acclaim. Six further best-selling books and eight blockbuster films followed. The books have been translated into 85 languages, won multiple awards, and sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling book series in history.

To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. One of these companion volumes inspired the Fantastic Beasts film series in 2016, with screenplays written or co-written by Rowling.  She also collaborated on the writing of a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was published as a script book. Pottermore Publishing is the global digital publisher of the Harry Potter series, as well as other digital audiobooks and eBooks from Harry Potter™.

Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling. After Harry Potter, the author chose crime fiction for her next books, a genre she has always loved as a reader. She wanted to write a contemporary whodunit, with a credible back story.

Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series is classic contemporary crime fiction from a master story-teller, rich in plot, characterisation and detail. Galbraith’s debut into crime fiction garnered acclaim amongst critics and crime fans alike. The seven novels in the series so far, The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014), Career of Evil ( 2015), Lethal White (2018), Troubled Blood (2020), The Ink Black Heart (2022) and The Running Grave (2023). All were published to critical acclaim and were bestsellers in the UK and internationally. The eighth in the series, The Hallmarked Man is to be published in 2025. The books have all been adapted for television by the BBC and HBO.

J.K. Rowling’s original intention for writing as Robert Galbraith was for the books to be judged on their own merit, and to establish Galbraith as a well-regarded name in crime in its own right.

Now Robert Galbraith’s true identity is widely known, J.K. Rowling continues to write the crime series under the Galbraith pseudonym to keep the distinction from her other writing and so people will know what to expect from a Cormoran Strike novel.

The Robert Galbraith website can be found here - robert-galbraith.com