From zero to bestseller July 6, 2011 SANCTUS was an instant hit when it came out in April. Waterstones shopfronts were full of it, it quickly climbed the bestseller list and the author is tipped as the next (but much more talented) Dan Brown. Yet before he wrote Sanctus – which is the first in a trilogy commissioned by Harper Collins – [...]
VEXED IN THE CITY : SOLVING YOUR LOVE & LIFE PROBLEMS July 6, 2011 DEAR VEXED: Summer party season has meant lots of drinking with colleagues. I keep getting drunk in front of them and regretting it the next day – not that I’ve done anything terrible (yet). I can’t figure out where to draw the line – is it acceptable, professionally and socially, to booze in front of [...]
City Boy strikes again, this time in danger July 6, 2011 The ex-columnist has lost his sparkle with this heavy-handed tome JUST BUSINESS BY GERAINT ANDERSON Headline, £12.99 CITY Boy, aka Geraint Anderson, rode the success of the City in its pre-crunch prime in two ways. One: by raking in the cash in a Chateau Margaux fuelled frenzy and two, by capitalising on people’s fascination with the [...]
Crafted for a better taste July 6, 2011 THE British pub industry may be in crisis, with scores of venues reportedly closing around the country each week, but there’s one side of it that’s bubbling along rather nicely. Bars that are dedicating their trade to the kind of specialist, low-volume beers you can’t find in mainstream pubs are on the rise, as are [...]
Keeping it cool behind closed doors July 6, 2011 IN recent weeks secret doorways have been surfacing across London. Following in the footsteps of clandestine operations Eight Bank, ECC, Crazy Bear Members Club and more recently The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town (which can only be entered through a Smeg refrigerator) a little black door has just appeared on Orchard Street by Selfridges. The [...]
OUT OF OFFICE July 6, 2011 WILTON’S SUMMER FESTIVAL One of London’s most magnificent and historic music venues, Wilton’s Music Hall is playing host to all sorts of musical and theatrical diversions this summer. As well as an eclectic comedy programme for the London Comedy Festival, there will be live music, illusionists, contortionists, films and cabaret artists, all falling under the [...]
BLACKBERRY PLAYBOOK in association with SELFRIDGES&CO. selfridges.com July 6, 2011 BlackBerry® has already revolutionised the way we work and do business. Now, as the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet launches, it’s also transforming the way we play. BlackBerry PlayBook marks a much-anticipated debut in the tablet market and is now available to purchase at SELFRIDGES. It’s the first tablet on the market to offer users the best [...]
House prices rise in June July 6, 2011 House prices rose 1.2 per cent in June, their biggest month-on-month rise since October, mortgage lender Halifax said. That confounded analysts’ expectations for an unchanged reading and left prices 3.5 per cent lower in the three months to June compared with a year ago. “Low interest rates, an increase in the number of people in [...]
Jeep’s… back July 5, 2011 Us Brits should be forgiven for thinking Land Rover invented the luxury 4×4 with the Range Rover brand. In fact it was Jeep with its Wagoneer that created the segment, and by the mid 1990s, its successor, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, was just about everywhere in the US and ubiquitous in London too. Then sales [...]
CAR TALK July 5, 2011 CHEVY’S ELECTRIC OFFERING Chevrolet’s extended range EV Volt will cost £28,545 (including £5,000 government grant) when it arrives in early 2012. Thanks to its E-REV powertrain, the car has an electric-only range of 50 miles after which an on-board generator kicks in to prevent the battery going flat. This means you could commute using electric [...]