Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman tops US 2015 bestseller list

Lee’s second novel sold 1.6m copies, more than half a century after To Kill a Mockingbird was published

Harper Lee’s second novel Go Set a Watchman topped the US bestseller list in 2015, selling 1.6m copies more than half a century after her Pulitzer-winning first book was published.

The figures were based on US print unit sales reported to Nielsen since the novel was published in July. The book was snapped up by avid fans who for decades thought the reclusive author of the 1960s masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird would never publish another word.

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