Ian Black obituary

Middle East editor of the Guardian, author and academic who embodied the journalist’s duty to show fairness to all sides

Graham Oakley obituary

Illustrator and author widely admired for The Church Mice, his series of children’s picture books

Writer of travel books, novels and essays, whose Soft City was an early example of psychogeography

Political scientist whose radical approach and professorship at Essex University transformed the study of government

Other lives: A leading authority on the French writer Paul Claudel

Poet and writer who championed the Gaelic language in Scotland and the rest of the world

Nature writer whose 1969 book Akenfield, a portrait of a rural life rapidly disappearing from view, was acclaimed as a classic

Prolific journalist and historian who shifted allegiance from the left of Labour to become an ardent Thatcher supporter

Other lives: Antiquarian bookseller whose expert knowledge was much sought after around the UK

Founder of the publisher Kogan Page, one of the first companies to focus on business and management titles

Novelist and screenwriter whose tales of women taking control of their own destinies included The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Other lives: Novelist and playwright who also had a career as a journalist with the Daily Worker and Times newspapers

Other lives: Teacher and accomplished seamstress who became well known for the restoration of harpsichords

US science fiction writer whose novels combined a wide-ranging view of future technical developments with political speculation

Czech actor who described how she survived several Nazi camps during the Holocaust in her book The Tin Ring