Maureen O’Connor obituary

Other lives: Crime novelist and founding editor of Education Guardian

Dame Shirley Conran obituary

Bestselling author of Lace and Superwoman and women’s editor for the Daily Mail and the Observer

Campaigner who founded the CoppaFeel! cancer awareness charity to encourage women to check their breasts

Author of The New York Trilogy who conjured up a world of wonder and happenstance, miracle and catastrophe

Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries

Paediatrician specialising in child development and novelist who founded the literary periodical Ambit

Other lives: Dutch journalist, author and futurologist who was an advocated for a post-capitalist society

Other lives: Art teacher who did much to revive interest in the ancient shawl-making tradition of Norwich and Norfolk

Controversial US philosopher who sought to understand and explain the science of the mind

Creator with his design partner Colin Banks of corporate identities for clients including Royal Mail and British Telecom

American postmodernist novelist whose experimental approach challenged literary conventions

Writer whose novels trace the complexities of a globalised world and the fortunes of families across continents and generations

Other lives: Writer and poet whose work celebrated the natural world and raised environmental issues

Sociologist whose research on coercive control led to new criminal justice responses to domestic abuse

Bestselling author of the 1960 novel The L-Shaped Room and the children’s classic The Indian in the Cupboard