Go Set a Watchman launch excitement builds ahead of publication

Harper Lee’s unexpected companion novel to To Kill a Mockingbird has bookshops readying for huge salesRead the first chapterListen to an extract read by Reese WitherspoonFirst chapter review: A beguiling journey into the pastSix months ago, it was a book the literary world would have laughed off as unimaginable, but the chief executive of Waterstones James Daunt is now predicting that pre-orders for Harper Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman, will top those for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.“You don’t need to be clairvoyant to say that it will without doubt be the biggest book of the year, and the biggest book of many a year,” Daunt said on Friday. Related: Go Set A Watchman: read the first chapter - interactive Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]

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