John Sutcliffe obituary

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

Brian Catling obituary

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

American journalist and author of the bestselling Nickel and Dimed, her 2001 memoir of living undercover on the breadline

Double Booker prize-winning author best known for her Wolf Hall trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell

Other lives: Dedicated campaigner who started the first Namibian publishing house

Other lives: Arts administrator who founded the Ilkley Literature festival in 1973

One of Spain’s greatest modern novelists whose constant themes were secrets and betrayal

Award-winning horror writer whose novels included Julia, Ghost Story and the bestselling The Talisman with Stephen King

Leading authority on the life of George Orwell who edited the mammoth 20-volume George Orwell: The Complete Works

Children’s author whose popular series beginning with The Spook’s Apprentice drew on Lancashire history and folklore