From Elizabeth Day's How To Fail to  Shonda Rhimes' Year of Yes and Glennon Doyle's Untamed, a publishing insider explains why we're so obsessed with self-books at the moment. 

How self-help books became cool again (and which ones to buy)

As a genre, it’s moved from ‘you’re broken, and I, an expert, will fix you’ to ‘your behaviour is a perfectly normal response, you’re not alone, and you can change this if you want to’     

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A publishing expert explains why we're obsessed.

Self-help books: how they became cool – and which ones to look out for in 2021