When therapist Lori Gottlieb found herself in therapy after a devastating breakup, she began to rethink her own life story

A songwriter's songwriter, John turned his often bemused view of people and politics into songs for fifty years (R)

Astronaut Jim Bagian on working, eating and sleeping in micro-gravity while orbiting the earth at 28 000 kilometres an hour

Kate Leaver became fascinated by the curative qualities of dogs after her Shih Tzu Bertie helped her through her darkest days

Biographer Ann Blainey with the tale of Smithy, king of the Milky Way, and his audacious flight across the Pacific in his plane the Southern Cross (R)

How a lifetime exploring different landscapes inspires the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, who's also one of the world's most prolific writers (R)

Walking the Sahara, towards the fabled city of Timbuktu and into Niger (R)

A breathtaking Saharan adventure: camels, bandits and one fearless woman (R)

A writer recalls the precious stretch of time between the birth of his son, and the death of his father (R)

The author of bestselling novel, Pachinko, explores the lives of generations of Koreans in Japan (R)