Peter Ford obituary
Other lives: Author and editor who co-wrote a biography of Joseph Merrick, the ‘Elephant Man’
Zoë Wicomb obituary
South African-Scottish author admired for her first book You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, a collection of short stories
Ronnie Sim obituary
Other lives: Former teacher who helped translate the Bible into various African languages
Susan Griffin obituary
Author who devised the concept of ecofeminism and also wrote about war, memory and the private lives of public events
Shirley Abicair obituary
Australian singer and musician who became a regular on children’s TV programmes in the UK in the 1950s and 60s
Mirosław Chojecki obituary
Dissident publisher who smuggled presses, dollars, broadcasting equipment, books and audio cassettes into communist Poland
Maurice Rutherford obituary
Poet who wrote with originality, warmth and mischief about his home city of Hull, after turning to writing later in life
Lesley Cookman obituary
Other lives: Author of the Libby Sarjeant ‘cosy crime’ series
Britney Spears calls claims in Kevin Federline’s memoir ‘extremely hurtful’
Singer disputes account in ex-husband’s memoir You Thought You Knew, in which he says she behaved erratically around their sons
Gillian Tindall obituary
Writer, historian and biographer who wove archaeology, social history, myth and religion into her work
Sheila Canby obituary
American art historian and museum curator with a special focus on Iran and the Islamic world
Ivan Klíma obituary
Czech novelist and playwright whose work was banned under communism
Judy Taylor obituary
Doyenne of children’s publishing who promoted Beatrix Potter and nurtured Maurice Sendak’s talent
John Russell Taylor obituary
Film and art critic and cultural historian who wrote an authorised biography of Alfred Hitchcock
Dame Jilly Cooper obituary
Author whose bestselling novels, including Riders and Rivals, were set deep in an English countryside where the natives pursued land, sports, and each other, with lust and gusto