This book has been voted by readers as one of the best, but it's not one you might instantly think of for holding this title.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee centres on Atticus Finch’s attempts to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson, a black man who has been wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama.

At first, the story seems simple: Scout Finch’s rose-tinted memories of long, languid summers in the American deep south, and her idealised image of her father, Atticus, who acts as her moral ...

To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1930s in the fictional ... as she navigates the complexities of racial injustice and moral growth in her community. Atticus, a lawyer, defends a black man ...