Save the planet...stop sowing your oats

What I've learned from raising two autistic sons

The latest Julia Donaldson in this month's children's fiction: THE MAGIC FEATHER by Julia Donaldson Illustrated by Catherine Rayner, WHERE ARE YOU EDDIE? by Michael Rosen Illustrated by Gill Smith, HER HIDDEN FIRE by Cliodhna O'Sullivan

Fractious friendships, bitter rivalries and genius in-jokes...a behind the scenes look at Hollywood's greatest love story

Will London be out of water by 2040?

One of her husbands was gay, one of her boyfriends (Peter Sellers) was mad, her mother was a suicidal wreck and Lady Gaga mortified her at the Oscars...in her new memoir Liza Minelli reveals how she's always come out on top

The woman who recruited Kim Philby for the KGB before running an antiques shop in Brighton

As one of just three working class boys at Oxford, Melvyn Bragg was so miserable he almost dropped out - then his first love dumped him...ex In Our Time presenter reveals the truth about his turbulent university years

The best in crime fiction out now: How to Get Away with Murder by Rebecca Philipson, Based on a True Story by Sarah Vaughan, Sacrifice by Lynda La Plante

The best historical fiction out now: Kin by Tayari Jones, Pixie by Jill Dawson, Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi

Stedman returns in this month's best popular fiction: A FAR-FLUNG LIFE by M. L. Stedman, HOOKED by Asako Yuzuki, THE DICE WAS LOADED FROM THE START by David Annand

Literary fiction out now: The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self, The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain, Mare by Emily Haworth-Booth

My mother never hugged me. And her cruel response when my sister got meningitis still haunts us, reveals MARK HADDON, author of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, in a chilling account of parental neglect

Hotel that played host to James Joyce and the Nazis

Netflix and nonagenarians in the best Literary Fiction out this week: Look What You Made me Do by John Lanchester, Good Good Loving by Yvette Edwards, Still Talking by Lore Segal