Harry Porter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermione have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down ... This is a gripping and electrifying new novel, full of suspense, secrets, and - of course - magic, from the incomparable J.K. Rowling.

J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling has written fiction since she was a child, and always wanted to be an author. Her parents loved reading, and their house in Chepstow was full of books. In Tact, J.K. Rowling wrote her first `book' at the age of six - a story about a rabbit called Rabbit! The idea for Harry Potter occurred to J.K. Rowling on the train from Manchester to London, where she says Harry Porter just strolled into my head fully formed', and by the time she had arrived at King's Cross, many of the characters had taken shape. During the next five years she outlined the -plots for each book and began writing the first in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, which was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997. The other Harry Porter titles: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, followed. J.K. Rowling has also written two other companion books, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief.