Go Set A Watchman: Fans queue around the world for release of Harper Lee's new novel
Pre-sales of the novel are on track to out-perform Harry Potter in the UK
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Your support makes all the difference.Harper Lee's anticipated second novel Go Set A Watchman went on sale across the world at midnight on Monday 13 July.
Fans queued to get their hands on the hardback edition of the novel, which was discovered by Lee's lawyer lying in a safe-deposit box in 2014.
The novel is set 20 years after the events of To Kill A Mockingbird, but was written five years or so before the publication of Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning book in 1960.
Go Set A Watchman is the biggest release in the book-selling world since the final Harry Potter book in 2007.
Monroeville, Alabama - Harper Lee's hometown
Decatur, Georgia
London, UK
Hong Kong
Seoul, South Korea
Sydney, Australia
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