Running With the Pack by Mark Rowlands; Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley – review

Two books on the joy of running are equally inspirational but in very different ways, writes Miranda Sawyer

Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss – review

A damning investigation into the junk food industry is both chilling and contentious, writes Joanna Blythman

An octogenarian's account of wild swimming's life-affirming qualities is a delight, writes Kate Kellaway

The author talks to Carole Cadwalladr about his 11-year mission to write an epic about family strife and his own challenges as a gay father

Tim Adams is moved by a study of how disability, crime or illness test the limits of parental love

An uneven path of self-discovery along the Pacific Crest Trail unfortunately leaves the reader lagging far behind, writes Frances Stonor Saunders

Lynsey Hanley: Prescribing self-help books to people with depression is good, but the social benefit of reading groups also empowers

Can Sherlock Holmes help us to become better thinkers? Sophie Scott isn't convinced

Stephen Grosz's collection of case histories makes the case for psychoanalysis in the subtlest of ways, writes Alexander Linklater

The editor of British Vogue picks her cultural highlights of the moment, from Kathryn Bigelow to Juergen Teller. By Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy