When a medical condition left her in agony, The Essex Serpent author was prescribed powerful opiates. They gave her terrifying visions - and a new insight into literary drug culture
The poet and philosopher Mark Nepo says that however divided we seem right now, we’re far more connected than we think. To be the best we can be, we have to meet the outer world with our inner world
Matt Haig extends his hard-won mental health wisdom to an anxious world, Joe Mungo Reed crafts a convincing cycling novel, and Natasha Pulley pulls of a fine steampunk adventure