Glenda Adams

Obituary: A novelist and short story writer, she drew on her remembered Australian childhood.

Voting with their hearts

What matters most in politics - facts and logic, or stories and feelings? Drew Westen says it's emotion that counts - and shows how Bill Clinton and George W Bush understood this, while John Kerry and Al Gore never got it. Here we print extracts from his new book, The Political Brain - which is essential summer reading from Washington to Westminster.

When pride comes before a fall

Interview: Former foreign secretary and SDP co-founder Lord Owen believes voters are attracted to leaders with dangerous levels of self-confidence, writes Ros Taylor

No bondage

Poly Styrene, the Raincoats and the Slits were among punk's most radical figures but have been overlooked by rock historians. As a new book finally celebrates their influence, Leonie Cooper speaks to some of the movement's forgotten heroes.

Kathleen E Woodiwiss

Obituary: Author of 14 romantic novels that sold 30m copies - her own life story was even better.

Fred Saberhagen

Obituary: SF writer with an apocalyptic vision for the cold-war era.

Survival instinct

Rachel North survived a horrific rape attack and the 7/7 London underground train bomb, before becoming the victim of a vicious cyberstalker. As she publishes a book about it all, she tells Julie Ferry why her faith in human nature is stronger than ever.