Françoise Gilot obituary

French painter who wrote about her relationship with the artist Pablo Picasso in a bestselling book

Patrick Renshaw obituary

Other lives: Historian of American politics and labour who produced a major study of the General Strike

Poet best known for The Song of the Banana Man who went on to become a prolific playwright and screenwriter

Other lives: Author of a series of novels published in the 1960s and 70s exploring themes of sexual ambiguity

Other lives: Former editor in chief of The Good Hotel Guide, who worked on every edition from 1978 to 2022

Influential avant-garde film-maker and author of the salacious book Hollywood Babylon

Historian who brought to light the important role of rural communities in the French resistance during the second world war

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

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

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

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

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

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

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