The Casual Vacancy

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 503, [3]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine; crimson red end papers. In the distinctive red and yellow dustjacket, common to all global editions. Published on 27 September 2012, simultaneously with the U.S. edition, in a print run of a million copies.

Signed by Author to the title page on October 6, 2012, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival and with her hologram sticker to the facing page.

Winner of the Best Fiction category in the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards. An all-out 'war' ensues in the seemingly idyllic English town of Pagford, upon the death of Councillor Barry Fairbrother, in the no holds barred race to replace him. A stand-alone novel, her first for adults, published under her own name, and not under the pen-name 'Robert Galbraith' Rowling uses for her crime fiction.

"A big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, deeply upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence." –Lev Grossman, Time

[Errington, Philip W., J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography, rev. ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), A16(a)]