Literature Trend: Reboots, Reissues And Revisiting The Classics

Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in the David Fincher film adaptation of the Lisbeth Salander story The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The Looking Glass House by Vanessa Tait (Corvus, $27.99)
Alice In Wonderland gets an update, penned by the great-granddaughter of Lewis Carroll’s muse, Alice Liddell, and told from the perspective of Liddell’s real-life governess, Mary Prickett. Out now.

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee (Random House, $45)
To Kill A Mockingbird has a new ending: while Go Set A Watchman is technically a sequel (set some 20 years after the original), it was actually written first. Out now.

Nelly Dean by Alison Case (HarperCollins, $34.99)
Nelly Dean – the headstrong housekeeper at Wuthering Heights – takes centrestage in this “downstairs” retelling of Emily Brontë’s moody romance. Out now.

The Girl In The Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (Hachette, $45)
Lisbeth Salander is back! David Lagercrantz has picked up where the late Stieg Larsson left off with his Scandi-noir Millennium series. Out August 27.

Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz (Orion, $29.99)
Pussy Galore has been resurrected, cars are raced and copious amounts of alcohol are drunk in the latest James Bond caper, set in 1957, which was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications. You know the drill ... Out September 8.