Michael Burns obituary

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

Carey Harrison obituary

Other lives: Son of the actor Rex Harrison who became a successful playwright and author

Literary editor and chief book reviewer of the Times who later joined the Observer as its theatre critic

Other lives: English lecturer who was a prolific author and editor of books on writers and their literature

Historian and anti-racism campaigner who wrote several groundbreaking books about Black British history

Other lives: Academic expert on downmarket illustrated books, prints and ephemera of Georgian and Victorian eras

Palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum who was also a bestselling science writer and accomplished TV presenter

Musician, actor and poet who drew on cultural influences from reggae to European poetry in his Welsh-language work

Bestselling crime writer whose work drew on his own experience as an LAPD detective

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

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