Joseph Wilson obituary

Diplomat who disputed the US intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003

Al Alvarez: in praise of a literary cowboy

People lover, adrenaline freak, poker player and true romantic... the Observer’s former poetry editor remembered by his publisher

Oxford academic who transformed the Oxford University Press and laid the foundations for subsequent growth

Academic, feminist and peace activist who explored the themes of masculinity and war, and gender and technology

Writer, critic and poetry editor of the Observer best known for The Savage God, a meditation on literary suicide

Botanical illustrator who opened people’s eyes to the beauty of wild flowers

Writer and biographer born into a Bloomsbury group family who found an escape from her often turbulent life in her work

Poet and sociologist who retold the Mahabharata in verse

Other lives: Scholar, reviewer and publisher of early music

Doctor Who scriptwriter and author of more than 50 novelisations based on the TV series

Other lives: Scholar of modern Turkish politics with a special interest in Cyprus affairs

Versatile stage, screen and radio actor admired for her comic timing

Other lives: Inspirational figure in early years education

Self-styled King of Hay who put the market town on the map by establishing it as a centre for the secondhand book trade

Other lives: Prolific art book publisher who set up Redcliffe Press in Bristol