Mental illness is always a problem, so we will always need books about it
The current prominence of mental illness on bookshelves is good for all of us – so it’s important that reading about it is not a passing fad, writes Joanna Cannon
Why book clubs help you live longer
Being a member of a reading group may extend your life, according to a new study. Great – but which books should you read?
Gavin Francis: ‘Sex is given as much importance as death’
The GP and author explains how he conceived of a journey around the human body in the holistic spirit of medieval medicine
Top 10 books about cancer
Treatment of this cruel disease has advanced hugely in recent years, but writers from Philip Roth to Christopher Hitchens show the awful human cost it still exacts
Obsessed By My Body review: at last I know why bodybuilders smear themselves with fake tan
Welcome to the world of teenage bodybuilding – a hotbed of preening and paranoia. Plus, The Secret Life of the Zoo; time to rethink meerkats – they’re not as cute as they look
Snuffed out – the kids’ classics that would be censored by a smoking ban
The World Health Organisation would like films that feature smoking to automatically be given adult ratings. Bad news for Pinocchio and Cruella de Vil …
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig review – one man’s battle with depression
A timely memoir of mental illness reads as a highly personal and creative response to crisis
‘They take over your life and then, one day, they walk off with it’: life before and after children
A baby changes everything. So how does it feel when they’re all grown and gone? Photographer Dona Schwartz meets expectant parents and empty-nesters
Art works: how art in the office boosts staff productivity
A bright creative workspace can make employees more productive, lower stress and increase wellbeing
Matt Haig: ‘As therapy shows, words can be medicine’
Reasons to Stay Alive, the novelist’s book about his own depression, was much easier to write than to live through, he explains