Clive Wilmer obituary

Poet and scholar who promoted the work of John Ruskin and edited a selection of Thom Gunn’s essays

Alex Wheatle obituary

Author of the Crongton novels whose stories of inner-city life give a realistic portrait of growing up in contemporary Britain

Other lives: Author, poet and academic whose books often fused history with verse

Other lives: Medieval historian at Sheffield and Newcastle universities who wrote influential books on heresy and the roots of intolerance

Norwegian novelist who sustained a reputation as both seer and comrade for readers and writers for half a century

Other lives: Cricket historian who wrote Seven Summers, an account of Surrey’s seven consecutive county championship triumphs

Other lives: Son of the actor Rex Harrison who became a successful playwright and author

Literary editor and chief book reviewer of the Times who later joined the Observer as its theatre critic

Other lives: English lecturer who was a prolific author and editor of books on writers and their literature

Historian and anti-racism campaigner who wrote several groundbreaking books about Black British history

Other lives: Academic expert on downmarket illustrated books, prints and ephemera of Georgian and Victorian eras

Palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum who was also a bestselling science writer and accomplished TV presenter

Musician, actor and poet who drew on cultural influences from reggae to European poetry in his Welsh-language work

Bestselling crime writer whose work drew on his own experience as an LAPD detective

Other lives: Literary critic and scholar who played a key role in ushering feminist readings of fiction and poetry into the mainstream