Kelvin Jones obituary

Other lives: Author of many works on Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as on Cornish folklore

Barbara Taylor Bradford obituary

Bestselling author who enjoyed overnight success with her debut novel A Woman of Substance

Colourful philosopher whose readiness to examine current controversies sometimes brought him notoriety

Other lives: Lecturer in law who advised at the 1973 Sunningdale talks on Northern Ireland

Other lives: Doctor and writer who produced books on medical care for developing countries

Progressive Anglican clergyman radicalised by an urban ministry social project in Chicago

Other lives: Glasgow University professor who specialised in the study of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus

Writer best known for the novel Gabriel’s Lament and a sympathetic biography of the brothel madam Cynthia Payne

Designer and artist who worked for Spare Rib, the Monty Python team and Pink Floyd

Animator and illustrator whose film Beware of Trains led to a retrospective of her work in Austria in 2023

Historian who combined impeccable scholarship with a high degree of empathy towards figures past and present

Architectural writer who believed that buildings not be considered in isolation but as part of the fabric of a city

Other lives: Playwright whose work appeared on television, radio and in the theatre, and whose poems were published in five volumes

Novelist and short-story writer who drew on her experiences as a refugee and migrant living in New York