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Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman special

It's been 55 years since Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Finally, her follow-up novel, Go Set A Watchman, sees the light of day. Read an extract in this Guardian exclusive, plus essays by Oprah Winfrey, Shami Chakrabarti, Mary Badham and Harper Lee’s sister, Alice

24 July 2015

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    Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee – review

    CaraErica: ‘It was a wonderful story, filled with a range of ideologies and opinions that are great to sink your teeth into’

21 July 2015

  • Robert Sean Leonard as Atticus Finch, with Eleanor Worthington-Cox as Scout, in a 2013 stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird.

    Go Set a Watchman: the real triumph of the book that set tills ringing

    The Atticus of To Kill a Mockingbird gave the US something to aspire to. Now, Harper Lee’s long-lost companion novel offers a protagonist who could make us look at ourselves anew

17 July 2015

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    Go Set A Watchman competition: your photographs

    We asked you where you were reading your special Guardian Weekend Harper Lee supplement. From vintage trains to garden picnics, you gave us a glimpse of your sunny weekend reading. Here are the five winners and the best of the rest

14 July 2015

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    Harper Lee's town flocks to read Go Set a Watchman at the stroke of midnight

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    Go Set a Watchman: discuss it with us on Twitter!

13 July 2015

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    'The book that taught me how to read': your stories about To Kill a Mockingbird

    During the wait for Go Set a Watchman’s release, you have been sharing what To Kill a Mockingbird means to you. Here is a selection of your stories, memories and anecdotes about Harper Lee’s timeless classic

11 July 2015

  • Harper Lee with her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, in 1961

    Harper Lee: my little sister

  • Harper Lee in her father's law office

    Oprah Winfrey: my lunch with Harper Lee

  • Mary Badham and Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird

    How playing Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird changed my life

  • Civil rights activist Rosa Parks on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama

    Shami Chakrabarti: To Kill A Mockingbird made me a lawyer

  • Go Set a Watchman launch excitement builds ahead of publication

  • Guardian Weekend Go Set a Watchman mobile photography competition: terms and conditions

10 July 2015

  • To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee, said to be ‘happy as hell’ about her new novel, Go Set A Watchman

    Go Set a Watchman: first chapter released - as it happened

  • This photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2015, shows a sign welcoming book fans to Monroeville, Ala., the hometown of "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee. Lee's second book "Go Set a Watchman" is set for release July 14, 2015, and town officials are hoping the new novel draws more visitors to the quiet town of 6,300 people. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

    Go Set a Watchman's first chapter, first review: a beguiling journey into the past

  • FILE: Harper Lee to Publish Second Book<br>FILE - FEBRUARY 3, 2015: It has been reported that Harper Lee will publish her second novel, "Go Set a Watchman", more than 50 years after the Pulitzer Prize-winning "To Kill a Mockingbird" February 3, 2015. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: Pulitzer Prize winner and "To Kill A Mockingbird" author Harper Lee smiles before receiving the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House November 5, 2007 in Washington, DC. The Medal of Freedom is given to those who have made remarkable contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, culture, or other private or public endeavors. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman finally reaches the public after 60 years

  • Reese Witherspoon

    Listen to Reese Witherspoon reading the first chapter of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman

  • Harper Lee’s new novel: read the first chapter

  • Go Set A Watchman: read the first chapter - interactive

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