Isabel Hardman: ‘One of my most exciting botanical finds was in a Glasgow car park’
The journalist and author on how nature can boost mental health treatment, even on lockdown
Got 150 hours? Great audiobooks to listen to on lockdown
From Ian McKellen reading Homer to Bill Bryson on the body, these audiobooks can expand your horizons, even when you can’t go out
Dear Life by Rachel Clarke review – a doctor on grief, love and the NHS
A medic’s heartbreaking personal account of the loss of her father, and of witnessing the courage of the critically ill
With Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel blew open the memoir as we know it
A daringly unvarnished account of desperate self-absorption, this startling debut redrew the boundaries of confessional writing
Nonfiction to look out for in 2020
The next 12 months promise brave books on positivity, daughters trying to fathom their mothers and the twilight world of the terminally ill
How to save the NHS… by five bestselling medical memoirists
With medical memoirs now the hottest ticket in publishing, we asked five acclaimed authors for their views on the crisis in the NHS
The Undying and Notes Made While Falling review – how to write about being ill
Beyond the horrific surgery stories ... Anne Boyer and Jenn Ashworth innovate with form in their remarkable books about the experience and business of illness
Like a natural woman: why taboos about discussing the female body are dying
Periods, miscarriage and menopause were traditionally ‘private topics’. A raft of new books is changing that
Not Speaking by Norma Clarke review – tight trousers and celebrity hairdressers
This is an explosive family memoir ... but the remarkable stories are also an exploration of the effect Thatcherism had on Britain
Top 10 books about walking in Britain
Travelling on foot is a national obsession that has inspired a whole tradition of great writing, from Laurie Lee to Iain Sinclair