To Kill a Mockingbird commemoration to be released

Arrow has acquired a book commemorating Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, to be published ahead of the release of Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann). Publishing director Jenny Geras acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Scout, Atticus & Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy from Richard Pine at Inkwell Management.  In Scout, Atticus & Boo, McDonagh Murphy commemorates more than half a century of To Kill a Mockingbird by “exploring the great novel’s history and how it has left its indelible mark”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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