Hello! Every year Book Therapy curates a list of our most notable books of the year spanning both fiction and non-fiction, ranging from literary fiction, young adult, romance, mystery and thrillers, LGBTQIA+ as well as best political and business books, memoirs and biographies and travel and cookbooks. We hope these…

Ann Dix is a freelance dramatherapist, supervisor, writer and trainer. She has worked with children, schools and families for over 30 years. Ann has developed a programme for children who have experienced domestic abuse, based on her book, Little Mouse Finds a Safe Place (2012) published by Worth Publishing. Ann…

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton, PhD is an award-winning writer/director, whose writing has been produced and published internationally; her first book, a hybrid collection, THE MORTALITY SHOT is out now with Liquid Cat Books and is the reason for this blog post, for each literary piece within the collection is a meditation…

Neha Swaminathan is an author, certified breath coach and the co-founder of Flip and Flow’, an emotional well-being brand that creates and delivers easy-to-implement mindfulness tools for its clients. When I first met Neha and she introduced me to Flip and Flow’s mindful meditation and mantra book for kids aptly…

Halfway through 2022, here are the bestselling books of the year so far across a variety of genres from Literary Fiction, True Crime, Business Books to Memoir and Romance. We will be adding to this list for the final 40 books we loved this year so watch this space. Any…

When Talya and I connected, I could not be more excited to share her stories and her journey. Focused entirely on creating a therapeutic reading experience for children during the COVID lockdown, the literature felt aligned with Book Therapy’s goals and values and I had to dig deeper! Talya Bruck…

A lot of the value that comes from the therapeutic reading process, is often unquantifiable given the private and intimate not to mention subjective experience of the reader yet we have the likes of Dr Kelda Green and her experiments on Therapeutic Reading that have shown us strong evidence of…

Sometimes it’s only in hindsight that we get a sense of what our story is — a sense of closure. Through reflection, through journaling and re-writing our narrative. This is why reflection and writing our story is so important — it brings closure and even hope as we are able…

Recently a reader wrote in asking about the benefits of reading and specifically: What are the benefits of reading? What impact does it have on us, in terms of increasing our ability to empathise/heal from past trauma? In what ways can it be therapeutic? Reading has tremendous benefits beyond therapeutic…