Bad Blood – Frank McNally on the Irish man who nearly stole England’s crown jewels

Bananas in a salad? That’s bananas

Give me a chicken salad any day – but not the sad Caesar kind with mircowaved chicken you find everywhere

What future has the essay in a social media age?

Unthinkable: Despite today’s fashion for talking in tweets, there’s life in the old art form

The Ash and the Beech: the Drama of Woodland Change, by Richard Mabey

Paperback review