I was used fucked, broken, toyed with and violated from the age of six. Over and over for years and years. And here’s how it happened. So begins an autobiography,…

I was pre-disposed to like this book. I have followed Andrew Reeves’ writings with interest, and greatly benefited from a training day about suicidal presentations he delivered years ago. It…

There’s not much of a warm-up to this harrowing tale of a three-person family cult. The scene is set in 1936 with Louis Didier, a self-made wealthy business man, taking…

I’d recommended Phillipa Perry’s Couch Fiction as an accessible introduction to the little-understood process of psychotherapy. But also, The Gossamer Thread, the memoir of John Marzillier. Setting off his professional…

Couples can’t always make a baby with ease, and for the one in six who struggle to do so, there’s another significant minority who may never conceive at all –…

Whatever you think of David Szalay’s latest novel, All That Man Is, it is undeniably a remarkable one. Defying convention, it is structured with the loosest of a narrative arc,…