Colin Spencer obituary
Writer and artist whose cookery column for the Guardian also dealt with the ethics of agriculture and food production
Carol Smith obituary
Other lives: Literary agent who used her publishing expertise to write her own bestselling thrillers
Jim Powell obituary
Other lives: Writer and historian whose success as a novelist began when he was 61
Sue Dymoke obituary
Other lives: Teacher, academic and poet
Lord Brown of Eaton-Under-Heywood obituary
Judge who made a lasting impact on immigration and sexual offence law and went on to become a supreme court justice
Gareth Floyd obituary
Other lives: Book illustrator whose drawings were used in more than 150 episodes of the BBC’s Jackanory series
Milan Kundera obituary
Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Christine Baker obituary
Editor with the Paris-based publisher Gallimard Jeunesse who was determined to give British children’s books a presence in France
Claudia Mason obituary
Other lives: Bookseller and signwriter who lived for many years on a houseboat on the Thames
Mavis Cheek obituary
Author of a series of comic novels that focused on the tragi-comic nature of relationships and the general absurdities of life
Robert Gottlieb obituary
American editor who worked with many celebrated authors including Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing and Joseph Heller
Pamela Nottingham obituary
Other lives: Lacemaker and teacher who gained an international reputation through her books
Cormac McCarthy obituary
Acclaimed author whose novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian, told grim, violent tales of life stripped down to the fundamentals of existence in a hostile world
Ama Ata Aidoo obituary
One of Africa’s most influential playwrights and poets who served as education minister in her native Ghana
Paul Ickovic obituary
Photographer inspired by the ordinary lives of the people he met on the streets who believed in ‘shoot first, think later’