Inferno; What Have I Done? – fearless accounts of postpartum psychosis
Catherine Cho and Laura Dockrill are painfully honest about the horrors they experienced as new mothers in the grip of a terrible illness
The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith review – unwinding with nature
A life-affirming study of the pleasures of tending a plot or garden and soothing your mind
The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith; The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman – review
A fascinating pair of books on the therapeutic potential of the natural world
Sitopia by Carolyn Steel review – big questions about food
An ‘all-you-can-eat buffet of thoughts’
Isabel Hardman: ‘One of my most exciting botanical finds was in a Glasgow car park’
The journalist and author on how nature can boost mental health treatment, even on lockdown
Endell Street by Wendy Moore review – the suffragette surgeons
A fascinating, carefully researched study of life partners who became pioneering army hospital doctors in the first world war
The Better Half by Sharon Moalem review – on the genetic superiority of women
Women live longer than men. We know Covid-19 is killing more men than women. This book is an antidote to the myth of the ‘weaker sex’
In brief: The Bass Rock; Radical Acts of Love; Letters of Note: Mothers – review
The subjugation of women throughout history, how to accept death without despair and a selection of letters about mothers
From splendid to stressful: a short history of isolation
Not that long ago, the concept of isolation was seen as something of a luxury
Don’t panic: the best books to help us survive a crisis
Joe Moran looks at books on how to keep calm in times of adversity - and take joy where we find it