Ronald Atkins obituary

Guardian jazz critic for over 30 years who also contributed widely to respected music books

My island of strangers: a poem

The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds

Row breaks out in Marnhull, location used in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, over plans to build 120 homes

Queen Camilla opens house, refurbished after 18-month fundraising campaign, where you can stay ‘in the same room the Brontës slept in’

Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

The 1,274-hectare Bradford Pennine Gateway links eight nature sites and includes landscape that inspired sisters

Readings and performances will be staged at the ‘misfortune of ruins’ that long fascinated the writer

Exclusive: University College London acquires Gollancz archive that was in danger of being dispersed forever

Exclusive: Poet laureate says new book, inspired by wildlife at Cornish garden, is a plea for humans to slow down and reflect

Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd

New Writing North’s literary venture The Bee includes magazine and podcast, and is supported by Michael Sheen

New work says novelist, who was a censor during second world war, may been employed to look for coded messages

Videos will share author’s tips on everything from story structure and plot twists to the art of suspense

Doyenne of children’s literature has regularly utilised social media in support of women-only spaces

‘Lord forgive me. I am quite shameless’, author playfully wrote in note weeks after horror novel published in 1897