Know your fiction:?the Booker shortlist assessed September 8, 2010 IN A STRANGE ROOM BY DAMON GALGUT Atlantic, £15.99 Best for: travellers DAMON Galgut’s semi-autobiographical novel follows a man, named Damon, on three different journeys – through Greece, through Africa and through India. Although he encounters and connects with different people on each trip, and himself fulfils different roles in relation to them – the [...]
OUT OF OFFICE September 8, 2010 EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE AT THE TATE Tate Britain is playing host to an exhibition of photographs by one of the medium’s true pioneers. Muybridge’s images of bodies in motion – including horses galloping (proving for the first time that they had all four legs in the air at one point in its running stride) and wrestlers [...]
LIFE COACH September 8, 2010 I’ve been invited on a game shoot, but I’ve never been before and don’t know what to expect. What do I need to know? AS many people in the City will attest, going on a shoot is a terrific social occasion. There’s nothing like spending a day standing in fields blowing fowl out of the [...]
A car that’s easy to live in September 7, 2010 WHEN I was a kid, we spent every summer with family in Cornwall, and every year my father’s car used to break down, extending what was a gruelling journey into an epic, Herculean trial. Fortunately for me, motoring has moved on, and I’ve just done more than twice the distance in about the same time [...]
CAR TALK September 7, 2010 MINI COUNTRYMAN LAUNCHES MINI is launching its MINI Countryman on 18 September. With ALL4 four wheel drive available, the crossover car offers extra space inside, has 350 litres of boot space and a higher seating position for occupants. So it’s a less mini and more maxi version of the MINI – it’s also the car [...]
Scent yourself straight to the top September 6, 2010 AS THE worst economic crisis since the Great Depression broke in 2008, French designer Paco Rabanne released the most inappropriate scent possible: 1 Million, a male perfume in a bottle the shape and colour of a gold bar. Yet this grossly ill-timed slice of hedonism and opulence wound up being one of the UK’s best-selling [...]
FIT IN THE CITY September 6, 2010 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT WHETHER you’re suffering from a new injury or a recurring injury, it can be a frustrating time. So how to get back in the saddle ASAP? Follow these four steps. Work on your abs: Although core stability is no longer the cure-all it was once considered to be, creating a “girdle [...]
Suits’ fave spot for a helping of glam September 6, 2010 Aqua Nueva Fifth Floor, 30 Argyll Street, W1B 3BR Tel: 020 7478 0540, www.aqua.com.hk FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £50 LONDON’s love affair with the shamelessly glam has been hotting up for several years and Aqua Nueva, the Spanish side of a double rooftop restaurant off Regent Street, fits the bill perfectly. [...]
TASTING NOTES September 6, 2010 THE eating establishment reviewed above is the polar opposite to the one discussed here. Where that one is brashly glamorous and made for Euro-trotting Russians, this one is beautifully humble, studiedly homely and completely spot-on food-wise. It is equally trendy, of course, but rather it’s a Boho teacup whereas Aqua is a towering martini glass. [...]
Canada’s coolest city is both French and friendly September 5, 2010 THERE’s a good reason why Montreal is known as Canada’s party town. Quebec’s capital – the capital of French Canada – bills itself as the festival capital of the world. Every year there are dozens of festivals celebrating anything and everything. But it’s not just the likes of the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Anarchist Book [...]