More magic at Bloomsbury

If the saga of a pre-pubescent necromancer represents the pinnacle of children’s book publishing, as the devotees of the Harry Potter series would have us believe, then Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY) has certainly conquered (and re-conquered) that particular summit. Nigel Newton’s decision to publish the adventures of the boy wizard has provided more than two decades of revenue growth. And the magic keeps on coming – a special anniversary edition of the first book helped send children’s full-year revenues up 24 per cent to £69.2m.