Saddle of Vespa all’Italiana
John Foot's taste buds are tickled by Matthew Fort's gastronomic Vespa trip, Eating Up Italy, but left unsatisfied by Carol Helstosky's Garlic and Oil, a history of Italian food that misses a few prime morsels.
Minding the baby
Rebecca Abrams applauds Sue Gerhardt's clear-sighted assessment of child development in Why Love Matters.
The fat controller
Can this man solve the obesity epidemic? Clint Witchalls meets Dr Arthur Agatston, leading cardiologist and inventor of the mega-successful South Beach diet.
‘She blossoms, my flower is fading’
When the fluctuating hormones of a menopausal mother meet those of her adolescent daughter, there is inevitably conflict. But there is also great sadness for the woman losing her fertility and her child at the same time.
‘Every part of my body hurt’
After years of pain and fatigue, novelist Hilary Mantel was diagnosed with endometriosis, a disease so little understood, she was offered psychiatric treatment.
Forget me not
Giles Foden is disappointed by a worthy project that fails to deliver as he tackles Henning Mankell's I Die, But the Memory Lives On
Curious incidents
Harriet Stewart is moved by Charlotte Moore's George and Sam and Paul Collins's Adventures in Autism: both parental accounts of living with autistic children
‘I have a brain that works and a body that doesn’t’
Photographer Lesley McIntyre has written an inspiring book charting the short life of her daughter, Molly, who was born with a disabling muscular defect. She talks to Yvonne Roberts, who knew Molly all her life.
The eating cure
Forget drugs - diet is the way forward in treating mental illness, says Lucy Mayhew.
Have we created a generation of joyless, selfish monsters?
To you, it's a temper tantrum. To child psychiatrist Robert Shaw, it's the beginning of a slide into perdition. And it's all the parents' fault. Joanna Moorhead reports.