Michael Slater obituary

Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the writer’s more neglected works

Wendy Hoile obituary

Other lives: Illustrator whose work appeared in magazines and newspapers, and on book jackets

Other lives: Novelist and artist who was drawn to found objects for their shapes, textures and hidden histories

Other lives: Teacher who used her skill in storytelling to engage primary school children in drama productions

Literary critic, essayist and academic known for his erudite and pugnacious judgments on writers and his fellow dons

Author whose Shopaholic series of romcom novels were global bestsellers and adapted into a Hollywood film

Author of ‘country noir’ novels, such as Winter’s Bone, set in the rural communities of the Ozark mountains

Talented editor and literary agent who was a co-founder of Women in Publishing

Other lives: Writer and publisher whose Shoestring Press published more than 400 titles

Photographer whose unblinking eye documented the human subject as a birdwatcher might, via plumage, habitat and diet

Other lives: Co-founder and head of Grosvenor Books, a Christian publishing company

Writer, performer and broadcaster with a talent for being interested in everything and a particular fascination with British counterculture

Award-winning author whose novels, including her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, united comic skills with serious themes

Novelist and television scriptwriter who co-wrote screen hits with her husband Terence Brady that drew inspiration from their own lives

Journalist, literary critic, food writer and columnist whose work graced the Observer for 24 years