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James Bradley pays a tribute to a true friend and a woman possessed of a black sense of humour, novelist Georgia Blain.
Shirley Hazzard was one of the most cosmopolitan, elegant and quietly formidable writers of the 20th century.
Here is a selection of some of the best books published in 2016 for younger readers.