Sir Larry Siedentop obituary

Other lives: Political philosopher who wrote a well received book on the democratic deficit at the heart of the European Union

Michel Guérard obituary

French chef who found fame with his bestelling book La Grande Cuisine Minceur, which advocated lighter dishes

Author who won the Children’s Book award in 1997 and whose bestselling series made adults laugh too

Writer who drew on her Hollywood childhood for her successful memoirs and novels

Exemplary historian with a mastery of archival research who focused on slavery and empire

Author of Theory of War, inspired by her grandfather’s experience of slavery in the US, which won the Whitbread book of the year award in 1993

Spanish publisher opposed to the Franco regime who went on to write acclaimed novels

Novelist who scandalised her native Ireland with The Country Girls, and explored the lives of women who love and suffer

American fitness instructor and weight-loss expert who became a popular television celebrity

Other lives: Biographer of Sir William Jones, the Welsh orientalist and polymath

American therapist, author and broadcaster known as Dr Ruth who talked openly about sex on her radio and TV shows

Other lives: Teacher and arts administrator who played an important part in the early days of the TS Eliot prize

Provocative but witty literary critic known for his satirical Winnie the Pooh essays and his opposition to Freudianism

Author, scholar and historian who enjoyed success with his 1983 novel The Arabian Nightmare

Danish historian who transformed our understanding of the way Athenian democracy functioned