John Fletcher obituary

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

Ronald Atkins obituary

Guardian jazz critic for over 30 years who also contributed widely to respected music books

Other lives: Ecological thinker who wrote 100 books on the environment, including A Blueprint for Survival with Edward Goldsmith

US international affairs scholar who pointed to soft power as a complement to military and economic might

Crime writer known for his ‘history-mystery’ series about the Victorian detective Sergeant Cribb

Prolific novelist and short-story writer with a taste for the absurd

Other lives: Scientist, historian, writer and film-maker who forged a role for herself at the interface between science and society

Other lives: Co-founder and long-serving artistic director of the Phantom Captain experimental theatre company

Other lives: Lecturer in the history of ideas who became one of the UK’s leading Nietzsche scholars

Other lives: Headteacher who wrote a novel, a children’s book, several volumes of poetry and a memoir

Other lives: Road manager for the Clash who wrote a book about his time with the punk band

Other lives: Print consultant who worked with leading designers to produce high-end books such as Designed by Apple in California

Scholar and literary administrator who nurtured the talent of many writers from Africa, Asia and the Commonwealth

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

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