Jane Gardam obituary

Prolific novelist and short-story writer with a taste for the absurd

June Goodfield obituary

Other lives: Scientist, historian, writer and film-maker who forged a role for herself at the interface between science and society

Other lives: Co-founder and long-serving artistic director of the Phantom Captain experimental theatre company

Other lives: Lecturer in the history of ideas who became one of the UK’s leading Nietzsche scholars

Other lives: Headteacher who wrote a novel, a children’s book, several volumes of poetry and a memoir

Other lives: Road manager for the Clash who wrote a book about his time with the punk band

Other lives: Print consultant who worked with leading designers to produce high-end books such as Designed by Apple in California

Peruvian novelist, essayist and aspiring politician who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2010

Scholar and literary administrator who nurtured the talent of many writers from Africa, Asia and the Commonwealth

Poet and scholar who promoted the work of John Ruskin and edited a selection of Thom Gunn’s essays

Author of the Crongton novels whose stories of inner-city life give a realistic portrait of growing up in contemporary Britain

Other lives: Author, poet and academic whose books often fused history with verse

Other lives: Medieval historian at Sheffield and Newcastle universities who wrote influential books on heresy and the roots of intolerance

Norwegian novelist who sustained a reputation as both seer and comrade for readers and writers for half a century

Other lives: Cricket historian who wrote Seven Summers, an account of Surrey’s seven consecutive county championship triumphs