Mary Portas on growing up on the high street

John Boyne on why Bruno reads Treasure Island

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

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

Stephen Fry on Francis Bacon and his 'little man'

Helen Macdonald: I started to dream of goshawks

Germaine Greer on The Female Eunuch

Silk, sass and shimmer: William Banks-Blaney on Coco Chanel

Cressida Cowell: Could dragons be real?

James Rhodes' guide to love

Alan Bennett: The poor don't get much of a look in

Terry Waite on finding humour in the darkest of places

Andrew O'Hagan reads a passage about a firefight in Helmand Province