Wellcome science book prize goes to story of a heart transplant
Maylis de Kerangal’s Mend the Living, which tracks the journey of a heart from donor to recipient, is only the second novel to take the £30,000 award
The Nordic Guide to Living 10 Years Longer by Dr Bertil Marklund – digested read
John Crace sums up the health-giving Swedish concept of lagom, carefully using not too many words – and not too few
Simone Lia on pain
My recent experience of giving birth is the greatest pain I’ve ever endured…
Sarah Wilson on living with anxiety: there’s no sugarcoating mental illness
Her cookbook I Quit Sugar made her the face of health and wellness, but Wilson’s memoir, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, traverses much darker terrain
Joanna Cannon vows to keep working in NHS after £300,000 book deal
Novelist who began writing to relieve the stress of her psychiatry job says literary success will not stop her listening to ‘real voices’ in hospital
The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe review – great writers on their deathbeds
Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: sensitive and faithful, this book charts the last hours of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy review – a memoir of wanting too much
The New Yorker writer had a life that balanced domesticity with intellectual and sexual adventure. Then it fell apart
Wellcome prize shortlist announced: books that ‘will change lives’
Six books are in contention for the annual award for excellence in science and health writing, including a trainee neurosurgeon’s posthumous memoir and books about the NHS, HIV/Aids and organ donorship
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving – review
Psychotherapist Julia Samuel’s case studies provide vital and compelling insights into bereavement
‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’
At five months pregnant, Ariel Levy lost her baby. After four more years of IVF, had she left motherhood too late?