Paul Bailey obituary

Writer best known for the novel Gabriel’s Lament and a sympathetic biography of the brothel madam Cynthia Payne

Emma Calder obituary

Animator and illustrator whose film Beware of Trains led to a retrospective of her work in Austria in 2023

Dame Janet Nelson obituary

Historian who combined impeccable scholarship with a high degree of empathy towards figures past and present

Joseph Rykwert obituary

Architectural writer who believed that buildings not be considered in isolation but as part of the fabric of a city

Jehane Markham obituary

Other lives: Playwright whose work appeared on television, radio and in the theatre, and whose poems were published in five volumes

Lore Segal obituary

Novelist and short-story writer who drew on her experiences as a refugee and migrant living in New York

Richard Woodman obituary

Writer who drew on his own experience at sea in a series of novels and historical works about the British merchant navy

Ralph Jackson obituary

Archaeologist, curator at the British Museum and leading expert in the field of Greco-Roman medicine

Fleur Adcock obituary

One of the leading New Zealand and British poets of her generation who was fascinated by the past and ancestral voices

Heinz-Peter King obituary

Other lives: Lecturer and historian at St Andrews University who was an expert on the Cistercian Order

Robert Coover obituary

One of the leading lights of US postmodern fiction best known for his 1969 short story The Babysitter and The Public Burning

Ed McLachlan obituary

Cartoonist whose work appeared in Punch, Private Eye, the Spectator and the Oldie in a 60-year career