Geoffrey Whitehead obituary

Other lives: Author of textbooks for students on a wide range of business subjects

David Spenser obituary

Child radio star of the 1940s and 50s best remembered for playing Richmal Crompton's Just William

Other lives: Former teacher and author of crime fiction featuring DI Jim Meldrum

Italian screenwriter, novelist and poet who formed a successful partnership with film director Roberto Benigni

Popular archaeologist who raised the profile of his subject by appearing on Channel 4's Time Team

Science fiction author and inspiration to Stephen King whose novels, such as I Am Legend, were adapted for film and TV

Educationist who helped found the Open University and writer whose books included biographies of Dickens and Wells

Israeli novelist who became disillusioned with his homeland

Artist at the forefront of printmaking in Britain

Scottish novelist known for The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road who communicated with his readers via the internet

American Catholic priest, sociologist, theologian and author of racy bestselling novels such as The Cardinal Sins

Comic novelist in the mould of Wodehouse and Waugh, he was best known for Wilt and Porterhouse Blue

Other lives: Keen fisherman whose book Tangled Lines became a favourite among anglers

Other lives: She managed to bring up her family amid the bohemian partying of her husband, GS Fraser, and his fellow poets

Writer who exposed the role of German doctors in the mass murder of disabled people during the second world war