Cora Kaplan obituary

Other lives: Literary critic and scholar who played a key role in ushering feminist readings of fiction and poetry into the mainstream

Jennifer Johnston obituary

Prizewinning author who wrote elliptical, needle-sharp novels about family, Irish history and the Troubles

Prolific Hollywood character actor who won Oscars for The French Connection and Unforgiven

Gardening writer whose no-nonsense Expert guides have remained in the bestseller lists since the 1950s

Press secretary to Harold Wilson in the late 60s and 70s who went on to work for the Daily Mirror

Author, novelist and wife of the jazz musician George Melly who wrote about her rackety and bohemian life in her books

Author whose work examined the links between emotions, behaviour and location, notably in his novel Bleeding London

Acclaimed football writer who worked for the Guardian and the Observer, and proved a hit on Sky TV

Novelist whose biggest seller was Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which Thomas Pynchon hoped would change the ‘brainscape of America’

Other lives: Behavioural psychologist, management consultant and author of more than 40 books

Other lives: English scholar at Oxford University and acclaimed biographer of 19th-century authors

Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who went on to become a successful author

Debonair publisher known for his generous book advances whose stable of writers included Peter Ackroyd and Rose Tremain

Other lives: Radio broadcaster who began his career in Africa before joining the BBC, rising to be controller of its East European Services

Other lives: Bookseller, writer and editor of the cultural magazine Out of the Circle