On Wednesday, Pottermore announced a new book in the Harry Potter world to millions of excited fans. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, soon to be a play in London will also be released as a book, after the opening of the production.

Here's what we know about the book so far:

Readers and moviegoers last saw Harry waving off his children at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, in the epilogue to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up after that moment and is staged in two parts, due to the ‘epic nature of the story’. – Pottermore

The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.

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.

The book is set to be published in hardcover on 31st of July.

Later, the book will be replaced by Definitive Collector’s E­dition. We will bring you more information on the collector's edition once it becomes available.

To pre-order visit Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

– From the Book Gorilla