Rick Seccombe obituary

Other Lives: Bookseller and community activist committed to working collaboratively to bring about change

Paul Holmes obituary

Other lives: Child and adolescent psychiatrist who specialised in psychodrama

Other lives: Producer and presenter at BBC Radio Sussex and author of more than 40 books about his county

Controversial academic and theologian best known for his 1984 television series The Sea of Faith

Belfast poet of exceptional poise and eloquence – but with a sardonic streak to temper his technical accomplishment

American cartoonist and writer who portrayed angst-ridden New Yorkers and exposed the hypocrisy of government

Other lives: Respected professor of sociology at the University of Bradford

Other lives: Professor of African history at Soas who delighted in his membership of a local choir in Wales

Producer who adapted the books of the Rev Wilbert Awdry to create the TV series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends

Cartoonist whose work appeared in newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian and Punch

Trainer for the Special Operations Executive who acted as a ‘honey trap’ and later wrote novels based on her wartime experiences

Other lives: Historian of the Labour party who wrote a biography of the 1930s leader George Lansbury

Pakistani author whose novels offered an insight into the Parsi community and highlighted the challenges of reconciling different cultures

First professor of children’s poetry at Cambridge, who also worked to promote the teaching, dissemination and understanding of Caribbean poetry

Prolific science fiction writer who conceived alternative lives for figures including Emily Dickinson and Sigmund Freud