The Rowling Magazine Issue #73 · January 2023
BBC One’s adaptation of JK Rowling’s Strike series, written under the pen name Robert Galbraith, returned to our screens this past month with its fifth season, entitled Troubled Blood. The new season sees series leads Holliday Grainger and Tom Burke reprise their roles as Robin Ellacott and Cormoran Strike, respectively, as they tackle a difficult […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #69 · September 2022
The Ink Black Heart has been out for less than a month and the three of us at The Strike & Ellacott Files are already on our second and third reads as we prepare to dive back into our regularly scheduled episodes of the podcast. J.K. Rowling’s latest has proven to be just as dark, […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #69 · September 2022
Being one of many Rowling-made book lovers in my generation, I have always sung her plenty of praise for turning me into an investigative reader. Her texts are full of hidden clues that sometimes only a second (or third or tenth) reread can help you connect all the dots. She trained us quite well with […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #69 · September 2022
Connections between The Ink Black Heart and Harry Potter From the beginning J.K. Rowling has encouraged readers to find parallels between Strike and Harry Potter. There was the initial announcement of a new seven book series (since quashed – I’m delighted to find that she’s now planned out ten1 and hopefully we’ll get even more). […]
December 3rd, 2021
J.K. Rowling tweeted minutes ago that she just finished a new novel and it will be published next year. Her tweet is a reply/quote to another tweet asking for “Strike news”, so we can assume she is referring to the sixth book in the Cormoran Strike series. New book finished, out next year 🖤 <- […]
August 11th, 2021
Sphere announced the publication of The Strike Collection, a new box set that contains the first five novels by Robert Galbraith in paperback format. This box set will be available from October and you can pre-order already on the links available at the Little, Brown website.
The Rowling Magazine Issue #48 · December 2020
If Hogwarts Professor is right that Strike (like Harry Potter) is organised around a seven-novel plan, then Lethal White (as the fourth novel) is a pivot. This idea pairs up the novels before and after Lethal White, for we can expect that in this series – as in Harry Potter – will be organised in a […]
The Rowling Magazine Issue #47 · November 2020
In Cuckoo’s Calling, the opening book of the Strike series, Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling argues that the human brain is drawn to symmetry. Walking past the Queen’s Gate into Hyde Park, Strike notices something that, the narrator implies, others do not: ‘incurably observant, he noted the sculpture of the doe and fawn on one pillar and […]