Andrew Cattanach asks, is it such a bad thing that Atticus Finch has a darker side? A day ahead of the release of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, the long awaited sequel/parent/companion to To Kill a Mockingbird, and the reviews are beginning to emerge. Predictably, they’re mixed, with many journalists somehow expecting Watchman to be on a par with, or even eclipsing, Mockingbird. T... Read more

The release of Go Set a Watchman next week is already shaping as the literary event of the century. The sequel (or ‘parent’ as Harper Lee calls it) to her seminal 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, exploring racial injustice in the American Deep South, will demand a two million copy initial print run in the US, numbers which have never been seen before. The release of the novel hasn&... Read more

To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee has announced her long awaited sequel, Go Set a Watchman, will be the second book in a planned Mockingbird trilogy. The third book, which has a working title of The Girl Who Killed The Mockingbird, will be set in an alternate reality where humans and birds struggle to co-exist. Scout is a rouge FBI agent with a taste for vengeance and an eye for danger. B... Read more