Why women have sex
According to a new book, there are 237 reasons why women have sex. And most of them have little to do with romance or pleasure
Retro guide books show modern women the lost wisdom of being a lady
Being cheap doesn't mean being unladylike, according to a new market in nostalgic self-help manuals
Pamela Stephenson writes ‘epic’ sex book
Pamela Stephenson, pyschologist and wife of Billy Connolly, has written what her publishers call the 'most comprehensive book on sex - ever'
Home truths
Writer Sathnam Sanghera tells Mary O'Hara why mental illness should not be a closed book
‘Yum yum! Delicious babies!’
Recent years have spawned mummylit, dadlit and a brood of online offspring. Two new anthologies bring together earlier examples of parentlit in poetry and prose. Jenny Turner on why a sprinkling of 'not-niceness' is essential in books about bringing up children
Chastened by Hephzibah Anderson
Immodesty Blaize on why seduction is more valuable than sex
France’s ‘cookery bible’ gets English edition
Je Sais Cuisiner, which has sold more than 6m copies in France, has been translated into English for the first time
Health in mind
Review: Doctoring the Mind by Richard BentallDaniel Freeman finds a challenge to psychiatric orthodoxy leavened by a touching humility
Interview: Monica Seles
Monica Seles talks to Tim Adams about being stabbed in the back and the decade of disappointment and despair that followed
Carlos Castilla del Pino
Obituary: Spanish psychiatrist influenced by the horrors of the civil war