The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – finding the funny side of living with cancer
The comedian reflects on mortality and the new course his life has now taken in this warm account of his cancer diagnosis and treatment
The Inherited Mind by James Longman review – a moving memoir of mental illness in the family
The TV reporter’s struggles with depression and the suicide of his father, whose own father killed himself, prompt this incisive, highly personal investigation
The Big Idea: looking for a better life? Follow your nose
Smell has an outsize effect on our thoughts and moods, so it’s worth paying more attention to it
A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review – what nearly dying can teach us about living
In this sequel to his bestseller, Critical, the intensive care doctor draws lessons on the joys of a ‘second life’ from the experiences of patients who have flatlined and been revived
The anxiety secret: how the world’s leading life coach stopped living in fear
Famous for her work with Oprah Winfrey, Martha Beck is a bestselling author and self-help superstar. But for 60 years she was anxious and terrified - until she found a simple, uplifting answer
Paul Gordon obituary
Other lives: Psychotherapist, author and campaigner determined to improve people’s lives
The best ideas books of 2024
Richard Dawkins’s greatest hits, the diaries of a sociopath and a history of the gut
In brief: Eurotrash; Overcoming: A Workbook; What Writers Read – review
An unsettling semi-autobiographical road trip; practical life advice from Michelle Obama; and essays by leading writers on the books they love
An Improbable Psychiatrist by Rebecca Lawrence review – doctor turned patient
A brave memoir from a psychiatrist with severe mental illness that describes a failing system from within
‘The very thought of it repelled me’: how a skiing accident left me unable to read
After suffering a head injury, I found I was unable to read without headaches, eye strain and wild mood swings – and that my condition was far from rare