Life with a basin of gravy
The Truth About Babies is a beautiful and welcome book that reveals just what your baby will do to you
Please yourself – and everyone else
Our culture may be obsessed with sex but that still doesn't mean we're any good at it. The latest how-to guide takes up several refreshing new positions.
How was it for you? Four couples give their verdict on The Sex Book
"They say that food is the new sex, and The Sex Book has clearly decided to package sex as food."
Thanks for the mesmerise
Phil Baker looks deep into Hidden Depths by Robin Waterfield - a study of hypnosis
I’m not convinced – but I’m open to suggestion
Hypnosis has long been the preserve of crooks and cranks, but does it really work? Robin Waterfied tries to reclaim mesmerism as a respectable pursuit in Hidden Depths
Darkness visible
Nicholas Lezard on depression's definitive text, The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
Mothers’ pride
The Fat Ladies' Club started as five women comparing notes on their pregnancies. Then one of them died - and they turned into a publishing phenomenon. Sabine Durrant reports.
Bringing up baby
Feeding on demand and co-sleeping are out. Timed feeds and controlled crying are in. Is this the end of liberal parenting, asks Kate Worsley.
The witch report
Roy Porter's Madness: A Brief History is a vivid account of how fads and fashion have marked the theories and treatments of insanity
Body language
Tim Radford looks at The Oxford Companion to the Body and learns all about facial expressions, faeces, fainting, Fallopian tubes and farting