Tom Templeton: ‘I suspect doctors have realised how therapeutic it can be to write books’
The former Observer writer and now GP talks about his new book, 34 Patients, and the challenges he has faced during the pandemic
Nonfiction to look out for in 2021
Biographies of Philip Roth and DH Lawrence, and the curious death of Robert Maxwell
Wellness is a seductive lie – and it is changing how we treat illness
In desperate need of hydrotherapy, Abi Palmer went to a sanatorium – and found herself surrounded by luxury. How has health been sold as a lifestyle choice?
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
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
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
Molly Case, the NHS nurse who finds poetry on the wards
The student nurse whose impassioned poem about the NHS went viral talks about her new memoir
What will you be reading next year? London book fair’s star attractions
Salman Rushdie’s take on Don Quixote, Elton John’s memoirs and a study of criminals in Broadmoor – a selection of the biggest and most interesting books announced at the fair