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Go Set a Watchman and the challenge of being challenged
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
Go Set a Watchman Already Breaking Records Before Release
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 Set To Become A Trilogy
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
NEWS: Harper Lee to publish sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird
In perhaps the biggest literary news of the 21st century, To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee has announced she will be releasing a sequel to her seminal debut in 2015. “It’s a pretty decent effort,” she said of her soon to be released second novel, 55 years in the making, entitled Go Set a Watchman. According to Harper, Go Set a Watchman is set roughly 20 years after To Kill a Mockingbird ... Read more
The Twelve Best Books ‘We Might Never Have Read If They Hadn’t Forced Us To’
Because of compulsory education most of us can claim to have read – or have some knowledge of – at least one literary classic. We can probably recall the title and/or the author of the book, too. Which comes in handy when we meet one of those bores who still reads good books and wants to make us look dumb by talking about them in a work or social situation. “So, Sally, what ha... Read more