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Sphere unveils new Robert Galbraith novel The Running Grave
Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, has announced it will publish the next instalment in Robert Galbraith’s Strike crime series, The Running Grave, on 26th September. It will be the seventh title in a planned series of 10.
This year also marks the 10th anniversary of The Cuckoo’s Calling, the first novel in the series. A year-long run of activity is planned to celebrate the milestone, including a creative consumer campaign that will “revisit key elements of Strike and give readers the opportunity to share their favourite moments".
Fans will also have the opportunity to purchase a special anniversary edition of The Cuckoo’s Calling – which has received the Nielsen Platinum award for surpassing one million sales – produced with exclusive artwork, of which further details will be released later this year.
As with all previous editions of The Cuckoo’s Calling, royalty proceeds of the new edition will go to ABF The Soldiers’ Charity.
The Silkworm and Career of Evil, novels two and three in the series, have also now, according to the publisher, reached the Nielsen Gold bestseller record with over 500,000 sales each.
David Shelley, c.e.o. of Hachette UK, said: “With over 11 million copies sold in the English language to date, the story of Strike and Robin has captured readers’ imaginations and, like so many others, I can’t wait to see what happens to them over the course of the final four books in the series.”
Michael Pietsch, c.e.o. of Hachette Book Group, commented: “There are few pleasures richer than knowing a new Robert Galbraith thriller is on the way. Seven novels into the Cormoran Strike series, J K Rowling keeps expanding her already peerless skills in crafting drama, emotion, urgency, and capturing the infinite complexities of the human spirit.”
Galbraith is on 1.9 million copies sold for £16.1m via Nielsen’s UK TCM, with The Cuckoo’s Calling paperback the bestseller on 377,133. The Ink Black Heart is currently on 171,482 copies sold in hardback in the UK.
