John Miller obituary

Other lives: Author and broadcaster who wrote authorised biographies of Judi Dench, Peter Ustinov and Ralph Richardson

Virago founder Carmen Callil remembered by her friend Rachel Cooke: ‘Of course she was difficult’

The Observer writer on the brilliant publisher, a larger-than-life character among whose many talents was an extraordinary capacity for friendship

Journalist and prize-winning author of Konin: A Quest, the story of a Jewish community that vanished

Other lives: Educational publisher who launched a range of books of songs and poetry for children

Other lives: Book artist who designed and printed by letterpress and whose work is collected in the US Library of Congress

Publisher who founded Virago, which champions women’s writing and books on feminist topics

Author of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the world

French philosopher whose work spanned many disciplines and who believed we must take greater care of the Earth’s resources

Other lives: Interior designer and artist with a passion for colour who made an important contribution to the Farrow & Ball range of paints

Performance artist and fantasy writer whose gothic imagination found inspiration in the ‘wrongness of actions’

Novelist, playwright and film-maker whose directorial debut was Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the 2006 novel

Other lives: Prolific children’s poet and author who wrote the prize-winning verse narrative Wayland

Other lives: Artist and writer of influential books on the ecological and social function of art

Other lives: Journalist and author who wrote a biography of his poet father

Former armed robber dubbed ‘Public Enemy No 1’ by the press whose 1974 memoir was turned into a film