The follow-up to Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird has gone on sale - with many fans queuing up for hours to get their hands on a copy of the hotly anticipated book.

Bookshops opened at midnight to cope with the demand for Go Set A Watchman, with queues forming outside Dublin's Hodges Figgis branch on Dawson Street before midnight last night to get their hands on the book.

It had been claimed Lee was not involved in the decision to release a second novel.

However, her US publisher Harper Collins released a statement earlier this year quoting the author as saying "she is alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions" to Go Set A Watchman.

Tony Hayes is the Manager at Hodges Figgis bookstore on Dawson street in Dublin and he spoke to Chris Donoghue on this morning's Breakfast about last night's launch