Thomas Kilroy obituary

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

KM Peyton obituary

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

Other lives: Architectural historian, lecturer and writer

Leading academic and Keynesian best known for Thirlwall’s Law on economic growth

Experimental science fiction writer who looked to distant worlds and ages to address eternal human concerns

Syrian author of six novels about his war-riven country, including the award-winning No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

Chelsea, QPR and Tottenham player who as England manager displayed one of the sharpest football brains of his generation

Historian whose chronicles of 14th-century Montaillou focused on laypeople rather than leaders

Model and popular television presenter who went on to become a bestselling novelist