Minding the baby
Rebecca Abrams applauds Sue Gerhardt's clear-sighted assessment of child development in Why Love Matters.
The fat controller
Can this man solve the obesity epidemic? Clint Witchalls meets Dr Arthur Agatston, leading cardiologist and inventor of the mega-successful South Beach diet.
What makes a man?
That was the question we asked five brilliant writers, and their answers ranged from the heartfelt to the cheeky to the strictly scientific. So, take your pick: it's talent or vulnerability or just a scrap of genetic material.
‘She blossoms, my flower is fading’
When the fluctuating hormones of a menopausal mother meet those of her adolescent daughter, there is inevitably conflict. But there is also great sadness for the woman losing her fertility and her child at the same time.
‘Every part of my body hurt’
After years of pain and fatigue, novelist Hilary Mantel was diagnosed with endometriosis, a disease so little understood, she was offered psychiatric treatment.
Forget me not
Giles Foden is disappointed by a worthy project that fails to deliver as he tackles Henning Mankell's I Die, But the Memory Lives On
Curious incidents
Harriet Stewart is moved by Charlotte Moore's George and Sam and Paul Collins's Adventures in Autism: both parental accounts of living with autistic children
Black Death blamed on man, not rats
A new analysis of more than 100 plague epidemics which swept Europe for hundreds of years concludes that it was not spread by rodents running between villages and towns but by man himself.
‘I have a brain that works and a body that doesn’t’
Photographer Lesley McIntyre has written an inspiring book charting the short life of her daughter, Molly, who was born with a disabling muscular defect. She talks to Yvonne Roberts, who knew Molly all her life.
‘I looked in the mirror, and it wasn’t me’
When Bruno de Stabenrath was left quadriplegic after a car crash, he assumed his playboy days were over. But eight years later, he's making music again, making love - and even surfing. He talks to Dea Birket.