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Preventable by Devi Sridhar review – a resolutely global view of Covid

One of the best-known public intellectuals of the pandemic gives her account of two years that shook the world

Bittersweet by Susan Cain review – a mawkish manifesto for the happy-sad

The author of Quiet again bangs the drum for the world’s sensitive souls, but her unflagging earnestness is depressingly short of nuance and humour

The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – astonishing adventures in precognition

How the Aberfan disaster prompted one psychiatrist to launch a nationwide search for ‘seers’ who could predict the future

A moment that changed me: my dream job healed my excruciating pain

The autoimmune disease lupus had ruined my life until I landed an interview at the Southbank Centre. After years of trying to fit in I’d found my tribe – and a way to get better

After my sister died I didn’t know what to do with my furious pain – but poets and horses led the way

I was heartbroken and angry but horse riding and medieval poetry revealed the quest I was on, says Clover Stroud

Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull review – mind games

The chequered history of psychiatry over the last 200 years is one of much pain and some progress

Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell

Nobody could read my writing but, desperate to conjure another world, I eventually became an author

The Anatomy of Anxiety by Ellen Vora review – the physical basis of mental health

A psychiatrist explains how distressing states are often rooted in bodily dysfunction – and what it means when they aren’t

Skin Deep by Phillipa McGuinness review – a fascinating study of our largest organ

This wonderfully eclectic book covers everything from cancer to cosmetics, racism to skin hunger, with curiosity and intelligence throughout