I don't think there's any point in me writing a review of this, do you? Pulitzer prize, 30 million copies sold, never out of print since publication in 1960. I think that tells you everything you need to know.

I won't give a synopsis because, like Scout, Jem and Dill, you'll really want to see everything unfolding before you. To Kill a Mockingbird is more than a biting social commentary, employing Dickensian humour to talk down our demons. It holds up a mirror and makes society look through the brutally honest eyes of a child at the kindness, craziness, happiness, prejudice and downright mean-spiritedness that crops up in the most unexpected of places.

This is the perfect novel.