News: The Ring of Solomon Lost Chapter by Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus)

Today sees the publication of the paperback edition of Jonathan Stroud's The Ring of Solomon, his brilliant prequel story to the equally brilliant Bartimaeus trilogy. To celebrate this there are two exciting things happening today:

At 9am this morning Jonathan will post an extract from an early draft of the story on his Facebook Fan Page. Supposedly it will feature Bartimaeus, Faquarl, a wicked magician and his shadow, and will be "completely different from anything that made it into the eventual book". You can access that page by clicking here.

And even more exciting.....

At 4pm today UK time Jonathan will be logging on to that very same Facebook Fan Page to answer any questions about Bart, the lost chapter or his other books.