Martin Amis obituary

Writer whose acrobatic wit defied gravity and solemnity and who epitomised literary fame in an age of glitz and hype

Iain Johnstone obituary

Documentary maker, producer, writer and distinguished film critic for the Sunday Times and the BBC

Gerald Rose obituary

Children’s illustrator whose picture books with his wife, Elizabeth, and authors such as Ted Hughes, are enjoyed worldwide

Elain Harwood obituary

Architectural historian who championed the preservation of England’s postwar buildings and the brutalist style

David Elliott obituary

Other lives: Bookseller and publisher who became editorial director of Quartet Books and co-founded Elliott & Thompson

Carl MacDougall obituary

Scottish author who focused on the themes of his country’s traditions, language and questions of identity

Kate Saunders obituary

Prize-winning novelist who won the Costa award for Five Children on the Western Front and whose Belfry Witches stories were adapted for TV

Donald Hinds obituary

Writer, teacher and historian whose book Journey to an Illusion provided an insight into the lives of postwar Black immigrants

Anne Perry obituary

Bestselling historical crime novelist whose troubled adolescence, and part in a notorious murder, was the subject of a film by Peter Jackson

Dubravka Ugrešić obituary

Writer in Serbo-Croatian whose mix of stringency and wit, although ignored in her own country, led to her being talked of as a possible Nobel laureate

Rachel Pollack obituary

Science fiction writer who was an authority on tarot cards and the belief systems that surround them

Peter Usborne obituary

Publisher whose eponymous company changed the face of children’s nonfiction with its fact-filled illustrated books

Edith Velmans obituary

Other lives: Author of Edith’s Book, an account of her years in hiding from the Nazis in Holland during the second world war