Shirley Barrett appreciation: ‘She never stopped being the life of the party’

Australian film-maker and author Shirley Barrett died this week. Her brother-in-law Imre Salusinszky pays tribute

Alan Grant obituary

British comic book writer responsible for shaping storylines for characters such as Judge Dredd, Batman and Strontium Dog

British-born food writer who found fame in the US with groundbreaking books about Mexican cuisine and its traditions

Prolific author best known for the Kevin and Sadie young adult novels charting friendship across the divide in 1970s Belfast

Other lives: Author of books on sports and higher education, including a narrative account of the Hillsborough disaster

Other lives: Poet, novelist and literary critic who was also a university lecturer in creative writing

Journalist and author of the Manon Bradshaw crime novel series with an intuitive understanding of the dynamics between people

Thriller writer and publisher who became an authority on the American old west and Billy the Kid

Pioneer of Modern Greek studies in British universities fascinated by questions of language and identity

Frank, warm and funny podcaster and campaigner who raised millions for bowel cancer charities

Historian and security strategist who was aware of the elusiveness of a relationship of trust with a nuclear power such as the Soviet Union

Writer and campaigner on social justice and the environment who developed the understanding of consumer vulnerability

Other lives: Poet and children’s author, and the creator of Ragdolly Anna, whose adventures were dramatised for television in the 1980s

Poet and teacher whose work embraced a wide range from sinuously tender love poems to sharp literary parodies

Acclaimed Israeli writer who was a leading member of the activist group Peace Now