Patrick Seale obituary
Journalist, broadcaster and one of the world's leading chroniclers of Syria and its history
Sue Townsend appreciation
The much-loved author's first agent, Janet Fillingham, recalls a fresh, aspiring writer, and the day she first mentioned a certain spotty teenager
Michael Billington on Sue Townsend: ‘Plays poured out of her’
On stage, the diary-writing teenager Adrian Mole was a joy because Townsend was serious about her single-parent hero and funny about everything else
Roland Meighan obituary
Other lives: Educational academic, researcher and author who was an advocate of home schooling
Lorenzo Semple obituary
Screenwriter highly regarded for his film work but best known for the hit 60s TV series Batman
Phil Evans obituary
Cartoonist on the side of the exploited and the oppressed
Lorna Arnold obituary
Nuclear historian respected by those who supported and opposed the H-bomb
Nigel Jenkins obituary
Other lives: Welsh writer and performance poet who became a leading literary figure in his homeland
Clarissa Dickson Wright obituary
Cook, bookshop owner and writer who found fame as one of BBC TV's Two Fat Ladies
Joe McGinniss obituary
Controversial writer and journalist known for Fatal Vision and The Selling of the President
Nicholas Brooks obituary
Historian, archaeologist and authority on the Anglo-Saxons
Tom Margerison obituary
Founder of New Scientist, Sunday Times journalist and BBC broadcaster who made complicated subjects easy to understand
Robin Bateman obituary
Other lives: Career librarian who built a reputation as a painter of groups of people
John Pickstone obituary
Historian who founded the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester
Richard Hart obituary
Other lives: Key figure in the West Indian trade union movement and nationalist politics, who became an influential historian of the Caribbean