The Sex Lives of English Women review – turkish delight fantasies and great ‘organisms’

Being ravished on Question Time, enjoying bondage in the pub, a nun who wants a threesome … Wendy Jones has given women the space to talk, but could have done much more

Book reviews roundup: The Essex Serpent; The Muse; The Middlepause: On Turning 50

What the critics thought of The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, The Muse by Jessie Burton and The Middlepause: On Turning 50 by Marina Benjamin

FGM survivors on Cuttin’ It: ‘I remember that smell of disinfectant too’

Cuttin’ It is a play about British Somali girls and female genital mutilation. Three women who have been cut give their verdicts

Tristimania by Jay Griffiths; Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon – review

Two depression memoirs aimed at different readerships both offer optimism and enlightenment

A must-read book? Go on, make me

Faced with rave reviews of musicals, films, books and plays, why does Oliver Burkeman run a mile?

The Middlepause by Marina Benjamin and In My Own Times by Jane Miller – review

What does it mean to be middle-aged? Is 50 over the hill? An honest facing up to loss and sadness is an important theme in these valuable studies

Lean in 15: The Shape Plan by Joe Wicks – digested read

The fitness guru’s 15-minute healthy eating recipe plan is trimmed to shape in less than 800 words

A Walk in the Park by Travis Elborough review – what makes a park a park?

William Boyd gives his definition of a park, and praises a wonderful book, full of learning and enthusiasm, that insists we need to cherish and protect these ‘people’s institutions’

Bang Gang: a modern love story about sex, teens and syphilis

Director Eva Husson spins the bottle with a group of French teens searching for meaning in mindless sex – and explains how she related to their lives

Carrie Fisher: tell me your story, I’ll tell you mine

In a new column, the Star Wars actor, writer and comedian recalls a life filled with pratfalls and accidents – and invites young readers to send her their problems