Magyk is the first of the Septimus Heap series, which I found through an article on the Guardian Unlimited Film site titled ‘Harry Potter meets his match in Septimus Heap.’ I did my preferred method of research, head on over to the Amazon.com page and try and read an extract (I also found extracts from [...]

Another great action story from Oppell which starts a few years after the events of Airborn. Many of the great characters return and this book, more so even than the first, has a feeling something like a 30’s swashbuckler, where the odds are long, the technology rudimentary and yet men (and women in this case) [...]

I found out about Airborn while surfing around looking for contemporaries of Harry Potter to see if any books had sold anywhere near the same number. Kenneth Oppel was unknown to me, although he has been writing for some time, partly because his previous books seem to have been aimed at a younger audience. The [...]

Word is that the final film of the series is being spit in two, to be released in 2010 and 2011, due to the size and complexity of the book. Daniel Radcliffe and produce David Heyman have both said that they could not cut down the final book because their are no elements that can [...]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was the biggest box office hit in the UK in 2007, beating the third Pirates of the Caribbean by roughly £7 million.