Relatively wealthy Braintree has supported just one asylum seeker in recent months while deprived Rochdale hosted 734Labour councils house eight times as many asylum seekers as Tory areas, analysis findsSituated in the heart of rural Essex, Braintree o…
Jill Murphy, children’s author and illustrator, dies aged 72
The writer was best known for the much-loved picture book Peace at Last and the Worst Witch series of novels ‘I just wanted to have a book on the shelf’ | Jill Murphy Beloved children’s author and illustrator Jill Murphy has died at the age of 72. Murp…
Advance copies of Sally Rooney’s unpublished book sold for hundreds of dollars
Uncorrected proofs of upcoming novels have been selling for large sums on eBay and Depop – despite the practice being banned by publishersWhen advance reading copies (ARCs) of Sally Rooney’s new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You were sent out in May…