Get Control of Sugar Now! Great Choices for Your Healthy Future by Paul McKenna – digested read

John Crace reduces the hypnotist’s self-help advice for the sweet-toothed to an even lower-calorie 800 words

Tim Ferriss: ‘I’m a coyote, a merry prankster, a go-between’

With a new book of tips from billionaires and ‘world-class performers’ out now, the American self-help guru opens up about what motivates him

Helped by Harry Potter and the hit fitness guru, year on year takings to December rose sharply to £1.59bn

The comedian and mental-health campaigner explains how realising that everyone feels crazy led to writing A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

John Crace brings Emily Witt’s investigation of sexual mores in the Google era to a swifter conclusion

Gary Taubes’s latest assault on the ruinous effect of sugar on our lives and the promotion of fat-free diets is detailed and compelling

One woman’s quest for personal fulfilment proves a handy guide to sex in the internet age

The cardiac specialist reveals how what really goes on behind the operating door inspired his book The Naked Surgeon

John Crace boils down a miraculous food plan that promises to heal through a divine voice – and radishes

The dramatised format isn’t perfect but this companion piece to Orbach’s Radio 4 series offers a real insight into the ‘talking cure’