Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker review – how more sleep can save your life
A neuroscientist has found a revolutionary way of being cleverer, more attractive, slimmer, happier, healthier and of warding off cancer – a good night’s shut-eye
The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World’s Happiest People by Meik Wiking – digested read
John Crace condenses the latest lifestyle advice from Scandinavia, in a bid to spread happiness
Fearne Cotton webchat – your questions answered on Keith Lemon, Teletubbies and the future of radio
The presenter and writer spilled the beans on anger management, meeting the Royals and what she really thought of the ropiest Live Lounge performances
Book doulas: the new way to push your writing into the world
A cuddly new publishing service has arrived to help struggling authors with ‘bookbirthing’ – and for all its new-age trappings, it seems to be catching on
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard – digested read
John Crace cuts the Norwegian author’s letter explaining the world to his unborn daughter
Sales of mind, body, spirit books boom in UK amid ‘mindfulness mega-trend’
While fewer titles are selling in other genres, reading that offers a path to spiritual growth has risen 13% in 2017
Byron Bay: where wellness flows and women chunder
I’m enjoying a sunkissed winter moment on the New South Wales coast when suddenly the detox clinic I’ve come to visit is not only interesting but necessary
Taboo-busting sex guide offers advice to Muslim women seeking fulfilling love lives
The Muslimah Sex Manual: A Halal Guide to Mind Blowing Sex is praised for empowering women
‘I should feel pleased the fast is having the desired effects but my life is boring’
In an extract from her new book Wellmania, Guardian Australia columnist Brigid Delaney recalls the agony – and unfortunate side effects – of a 15-day fast
A Manual for Heartache review – sound advice for the grieving
Cathy Rentzenbrink, who wrote a moving memoir about losing her brother, now offers unpreachy tips to fellow sufferers
The pleasure and pain of leaving the woodland utopia that taught us so much
The author and community leader recalls both frustrations and miracles as he passes his residential sanctuary into new hands
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s – review
Joseph Jebelli’s personal study of a disease that has reached epidemic proportions offers the latest research – but not much hope
Future Sex: Emily Witt on new ways of understanding porn, marriage and love
The author discusses her investigation of the new world of relationships and sexuality opening up in the digital age
How to master the art of change in a world in flux
For her book Metamorphosis, Polly Morland interviewed everyone from a man who lost 18 stone to a monk who fell in love. Then Trump and Brexit happened …
Top 10 books about psychoanalysis
Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure