Harper Lee

Det är 30-tal i en småstad i den amerikanska Södern, mitt under den stora depressionen. En ung svart man, Tom Robinson, anklagas för våldtäkt på en vit kvinna, och samhället vänder sig mot honom. Maycomb må framstå som en sömnig idyll, men under ytan är staden djupt splittrad av segregation och klassklyftor. Åttaåriga Scout är […]

‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel – a black man charged with attacking a white girl.

ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘No one forgets this book’ Independent ‘One of the best first novels I remember … uniquely unsentimental’ Guardian ‘There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written’ Sunday […]

A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee’s beloved American classic, voted the #1 Great American Read 2018. ‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation […]