I just got in from a good, long walk, only to find this sad news being reported. Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died aged 89. I don’t want to do too much eulogising, save to say that Lee was a writer I truly respected. I first came across Mockingbird at school, and it has always stayed with me: it’s one of those books which profoundly effect the way one looks at the world. Mind you, I was less impressed with Go Set a Watchman, which I have yet to finish. Nonetheless, the literary world and the world as a whole has today lost one of it’s leading lights.