Good Husbandry by Kristin Kimball review – a new life on a community farm

Sustainability and a love of the land are at the heart of a couple’s approach to farming. But grit and perseverance are essential

The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson review – strategies for eating in a world of change

The 21st-century diet consists of ‘unhealthy food, eaten in a hurry’. How did we enter this ‘food hell’?

A daringly unvarnished account of desperate self-absorption, this startling debut redrew the boundaries of confessional writing

This inquiry into a 1970s experiment that shook the world of psychiatry makes for a compelling read

The novelist shares lessons from the challenges in her own life and those of famous interviewees

In this study of psychiatry and neurology, Allan Ropper and BD Burrell ask: does mental illness reside in the brain or the mind?

Outspoken and defiant musings on dating, renting, running out of money – and caring for a parent

This year saw domestic cleaning overtake domestic noir, and women winning all the top spots in literary fiction

The next 12 months promise brave books on positivity, daughters trying to fathom their mothers and the twilight world of the terminally ill

Searching for the missing pieces in his family brought poet and author Michael Rosen closer to the horror of war