Tim Hilton obituary

Journalist, biographer of John Ruskin and brilliant art critic who wrote for the Guardian and Independent on Sunday

Colin Lacey obituary

Other lives: Academic committed to improving education, media standards and environmental awareness

Science fiction writer whose novel foreseeing reality TV was adapted as Bertrand Tavernier’s film Death Watch

Other lives: Poet and editor of Lapwing Publications, a poetry press in Belfast, for more than 30 years

Journalist who started out on the Nottingham Evening Post and went on to become the sports editor of the Observer

Other lives: Secretary and long-serving staff member at the Economist whose roles included commissioning the magazine’s art collection

Other lives: Author of a stream of novels notable for their pace and lively sense of history

Irish playwright who championed change in religious, social and sexual attitudes while giving voice to fears and anxieties

Author whose Flambards books drew on her love of horses and captured the changes brought by the first world war

Other lives: Author of comic novels and plays who later focused on singing for local blues bands and appearing in amateur dramatics

Academic and author of The Return of Martin Guerre, an account of peasant life in France that inspired a generation of historians

Australian author, scholar and teacher who wrote the feminist classic Man Made Language and co-founded Pandora Press

Other lives: Feminist and political activist who chronicled the ideas and beliefs of Greenham Common protesters

Poet, performer and actor hailed as one of Britain’s most outspoken and original literary voices

Writer, thinker and champion of green economics, monetary reform and new ways of looking at employment