Go Set a Watchman knocks EL James's Grey from top of UK book charts

Harper Lee’s long-lost novel has sold over 200,000 copies in the UK over the past weekEL James’ reign at the top of the UK book charts for the last month with her erotic bestseller Grey has been ended by a novel written in the 1950s and abandoned in a box for decades: Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman.The UK’s official book charts show that Lee’s novel, written before To Kill A Mockingbird and published last week, comprehensively beat James’ follow-up to Fifty Shades of Grey into second place in the week to 18 July. Lee sold 168,455 print copies of her novel in just five days last week, The Bookseller revealed, more than four times the number sold by Grey, which has held the top spot for the last four weeks, but has now seen sales drop by 37% to 41,943 copies. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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