Kate Saunders, who has died aged 62, was a prize-winning novelist, journalist and critic whose many achievements emerged despite a life of suffering and loss. Kate initially worked as an actor, joining the National Theatre in 1987, an experience that inspired her second novel, Storm in the Citadel (1989), and the third of her detective …
The three main characters in Work-Life BalanceAisha Franz’s mordantly funny new graphic novel, are connected by one woman: a therapist called Dr Sharifi, whose eyes, in time-long comic book fashion, can never be seen behind her round, outsize spectacles. Dr Sharifi dresses a bit like the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (AKA the princess of polka …
For all the extraordinary advances in medical science seen in the past century, mental illness remains an area of conspicuous uncertainty. It’s perhaps a reflection of this doubt that three separate specialisms – neurology, psychiatry and psychology – contest overlapping areas of the field, and amid the confusion other disciplines such as philosophy and cultural …
Clara Kumagai’s Catfish Rolling (Head of Zeus/Zephyr) is set in the aftermath of the 2011 Japanese earthquake, an event that has left strange pockets of fractured time around the country. Since losing her mother to the devastation, Sora has felt aimless and alone and when her grief-stricken father goes missing, she follows him into uncharted …
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