Children’s writers are sometimes cruel, and often damaged. And, as AS Byatt put it crisply when talking about her 2009 novel The Children’s Book: “Writing children’s books isn’t good for the writer’s... Read more »
A handwritten manuscript of the classic French novel LâÃtranger by Albert Camus has sold for more than â¬650,000 (£553,000) at auction, despite bafflement over the reasons for which the Nobel prize-winning author... Read more »