The farm tableFirst generation farmer and chef Julius Roberts shares honest tales of farming life and easy, thoughtful dishes to reconnect us to nature and the seasons. Making the most of simple ingredients, this is food to comfort and inspire. A few good things on a plate, assembled with joy and ease. Beginning in winter, recipes include: an elegant, fuss free dinner of roast pumpkin, mozzarella, hazelnuts and sage, and a hearty sausage stew; in spring baked fish

food to eat

fizzy sherbet dib-dab of a book - deliciously nostalgic

At once a reflection on America's past and present

a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library

Defeated by gyms

From flash-in-the-pan dinners to slow-cooked comforts

Why bad boys are an absolute waste of your time

Yuval Noah Harari examines the implications of our newly acquired divine capabilities

It shows how a boy born on a middle-class street to Boston Irish Catholics became the most powerful leader in the world

Step into the shoes of Midsomer CID's newest recruit

Or the secrets of the living

Colleagues - including thieves