Frank Cottrell Boyce reads from The Astounding Broccoli Boy

Frank Cottrell Boyce's first day at school

Cressida Cowell on maps and the writer's imagination

Germaine Greer on The Female Eunuch

Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel

Neil Gaiman's favourite memory of Terry Pratchett

Simon Schama on Germany's historical relationship with the Jews

Rose Tremain on The American Lover

Yuval Noah Harari: Why money is the most successful story ever told

Ben & David Crystal's A-Z of Shakespeare

Celia Imrie on the importance of being bored

John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity