Petra Boynton is a social psychologist and agony aunt, as well as someone who has experienced miscarriages, and her warmth, wisdom and compassion shine through all of her text in…

I like to revisit David Schnarch’s thinking, as it always feels refreshing. He turns some well-received, and indeed practised, ideas in couples and sex therapy around and upside-down in parts,…

Abby Norman’s compellingly crafted memoir joins the canon of growing – and valuable –  literature exploring the human experience of physical and mental pain and illness, but it’s so much…

Described as a ‘novel’ which I now understand to be a word encompassing various literary forms, Motherhood prises open the narrator’s years-long ambivalence about becoming a mother – I assume, we…

I was used fucked, broken, toyed with and violated from the age of six. Over and over for years and years. And here’s how it happened. So begins an autobiography,…

I was pre-disposed to like this book. I have followed Andrew Reeves’ writings with interest, and greatly benefited from a training day about suicidal presentations he delivered years ago. It…