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  • Published: 26 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529155532
  • Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $60.00

Go Set a Watchman




A special centenary clothbound edition of the landmark second novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.

The landmark second novel from one of America’s greatest writers, now available in a special clothbound edition to mark the centenary of Harper Lee’s birth.

‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus.

Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.

Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, and set twenty years after Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story.

  • Published: 26 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529155532
  • Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $60.00

About the author

Harper Lee

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960; and Go Set a Watchman, published in July 2015. Ms Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died in 2016.

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