Reasons to Stay Alive review – striking staging of Matt Haig depression memoir This dramatisation of the mental health bestseller takes a step towards removing the stigma from depression – though it’s no substitute for the book
Penguin Random House to release audiobooks to send listeners to sleep Sleep Tales collections aimed at listeners with chronic insomnia, thought to affect 10-15% of adults
The Scientific Attitude by Lee McIntyre review – a defence against denial, fraud and pseudoscience In a world of ‘alternative facts’ respect for evidence must lie at the heart of any scientific endeavour
Rolled over: why did married couples stop sleeping in twin beds? A new cultural history shows that until the 1950s, forward-thinking couples regarded sharing a bed as old-fashioned and unhealthy
A secondhand book is a glimpse into the lives of other readers You might pick up a book that changed a life. Maybe you’ll then leave it somewhere, and it will transform someone else’s
McMindfulness by Ronald Purser; Mindfulness by Christina Feldman and Willem Kuyken – review Mindfulness may have become a tool of capitalism, but if it works, does it matter?
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
‘Vaccine hesitant’: a gentler label than anti-vaxxer, but just as scary Reluctant parents who keep their opinions on jabs to themselves have been called a global threat by the World Health Organisation
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry review – how to raise your kids What’s the top priority when raising kids? A bestseller on good parent-child relationships