Bernard Dixon obituary Editor of New Scientist who saw the magazine’s circulation double during his 10 years at the helm
George Mackie obituary Book designer who brought an artist’s sensibility to his many titles for the Edinburgh University Press
Val Warner obituary Acclaimed poet, editor and scholar responsible for the rehabilitation of the ‘forgotten’ poet Charlotte Mew
Mick Hugo obituary Other Lives: Merchant seaman turned builder who helped set up Hackney Housing Co-operative in London
Jill Paton Walsh obituary Children’s author who turned to writing for adults and was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1994 for Knowledge of Angels
Norman Thrower obituary Other lives: Pioneering cartographer and geography professor who developed new 3D mapping techniques
Shalom Schotten obituary Other lives: Graphic designer for Thames & Hudson who worked closely with artists such as David Hockney
Tom Maschler obituary Booker prize founder and publisher of some of the greats of 20th-century fiction
Ian Michael obituary Other lives: Scholar of medieval Spanish culture who also wrote a series of detective novels
Stephen Cohen obituary US historian who argued that the Soviet Union could have been reformed and need not have ended when it did