Thomas Keneally on the cruelty of writing

'Les Misérables needs a champion'

The cinematic writing of Tolstoy

Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea

Edna O'Brien reads from The Little Red Chairs

Julian Clary and illustrator David Roberts on drawing a hyena

Malorie Blackman's life lesson

Jonathan Dimbleby on breaking the Enigma code - and nearly losing the war

Kamila Shamsie: "Are we living our lives according to rules Shakespeare set up?"

Jeanette Winterson explains why she chose The Winter’s Tale as her Shakespeare ‘cover version’

Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War

Schama Chameleon

Steve Silberman: ‘There has been no autism tsunami’