Martin Parr obituary

Photographer whose unblinking eye documented the human subject as a birdwatcher might, via plumage, habitat and diet

Hugh Nowell obituary

Other lives: Co-founder and head of Grosvenor Books, a Christian publishing company

Writer, performer and broadcaster with a talent for being interested in everything and a particular fascination with British counterculture

Award-winning author whose novels, including her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, united comic skills with serious themes

Novelist and television scriptwriter who co-wrote screen hits with her husband Terence Brady that drew inspiration from their own lives

Journalist, literary critic, food writer and columnist whose work graced the Observer for 24 years

Other lives: Member of the Wicca religion who promoted ‘the Craft’ through books, interviews and lectures

Journalist, historian and author who served as a foreign correspondent and features editor of the Guardian

South African-Scottish author admired for her first book You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, a collection of short stories

Other lives: Former teacher who helped translate the Bible into various African languages

Author who devised the concept of ecofeminism and also wrote about war, memory and the private lives of public events

Australian singer and musician who became a regular on children’s TV programmes in the UK in the 1950s and 60s

Dissident publisher who smuggled presses, dollars, broadcasting equipment, books and audio cassettes into communist Poland