Harry Potter fans can barely believe their luck after the book’s publisher announced an ‘8th story’ will be published in July, 2016.

Despite the seventh Harry Potter book being published nine years ago, fans all over the world continue to beg author J.K Rowing for more.

And it seems they’ve struck gold with the announced publication of a play script based 19 years after the final Harry Potter ended.

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The play, which is based on an idea of J.K Rowling’s, will be put on in London in 2016, but according to her publisher, countless fans have written to Rowling pleading for the script to be published as a book for those who can’t get tickets.

“JK Rowling and her team have received a huge number of appeals from fans who can’t be in London to see the play and who would like to read the play in book format, so we are absolutely delighted to be able to make it available for them,” chief executive of Little, Brown Book Group David Shelley said of the publication.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II will be published as a physical book in Britain and North America and an Ebook internationally.

It will be a joint venture by Little, Brown, Scholastic and Pottermore, the Harry Potter fan website launched by Rowling herself.

According to Reuters, the Cursed Child features a grown-up Harry with three children, overworked in his job at the ministry of magic and “with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs”.

The published book will still read as a play and not a narrative novel.

The final four Harry Potter books were consecutively the best-selling books of all time, while the final instalment sold 11 million copies in 24 hours in the US alone.

The eight Harry Potter films grossed AUD$10.8 billion and in 2015 were the highest-grossing film franchise of all time.

THERE IS A NEW HARRY POTTER BOOK BEING RELEASED! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! I AM SO HAPPY!!!

— Jacinda Chenelle (@Jacindyyy) February 10, 2016

there’s gonna be another Harry Potter book. well that’s a FANTASTIC way to wake up. good morning. ☀️ — Will Shepherd (@shep689) February 10, 2016

What if the Harry Potter books just continued: Harry Potter and the soul-crushing job hunt Harry Potter and the mortgage payments — Hogwarts Logic (@HogwartsLogic) February 10, 2016