Karsten Schubert obituary

Gallerist who played an important part in promoting the Young British Artists

Sir Fergus Millar obituary

Classicist whose work transformed the study of ancient history

Writer, philosopher and broadcaster who became an MP for Labour and the SDP

Other lives: Professor of jurisprudence at Oxford University

Historian of modern China, cut off from his roots, who rued the rise of the military and the Communist conquest

Journalist who risked his life by publishing the names of the disappeared during Argentina’s ‘dirty war’

Prolific author of the Inspector Montalbano detective novels

Other lives: Iraqi poet and painter whose work has been widely translated

Literary critic whose multidisciplinary perspective revealed the existential depth of fairytales and fantasy

Other lives: Dedicated librarian who inspired young and old with her love of books

Author of a groundbreaking study of step-parenting, and biographer of Nora Barnacle, the wife and muse of James Joyce

American author best known for her ‘sex-and-shopping’ novels such as Scruples and Princess Daisy

Publisher and nephew of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, he extended the hand of friendship to Woolf scholars and writers

Historian and controversial media commentator who taught at Cambridge, Oxford and in Turkey

Other lives: Teacher, historian and champion of multiculturalism