Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There by Cheryl Strayed – review
Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar agony aunt columns will infuriate some but delight many more, writes Viv Groskop
Bipolar memoirs: What have I done?
We live in bipolar times. Yet memoirs of manic depression by Stephen Fry and others suggest the new diagnosis, treated with drugs, risks ignoring the crucial details of each patient's condition. By Darian Leader
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review
Sentimentality clouds an otherwise sharp diagnosis of child unhappiness, writes Mary Beard
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review
The shocks come thick and fast in this courageous and clear-sighted memoir about a family secret, says Elizabeth Lowry
Lisa Lynch obituary
Writer who recounted her experience of cancer with engaging candour
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
Pondlife: A Swimmer’s Journal by Al Alvarez – review
An octogenarian's account of wild swimming's life-affirming qualities is a delight, writes Kate Kellaway
Andrew Solomon: ‘I’m one of five parents with four children in three states’
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
Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review
Tim Adams is moved by a study of how disability, crime or illness test the limits of parental love