Norwegian bestseller is just alright September 14, 2011 HEADHUNTERS BY JO NESBO Harvill Secker, £11.99 NORWEGIAN Jo Nesbo shot to UK prominence in 2010 with The Snowman. This was quickly followed by what is considered his best work: 2011’s The Leopard. Both feature Detective Harry Hole, a flawed yet brilliant detective who operates in the Norwegian underworld. Headhunters is a departure from the [...]
September is a month of hot openings September 14, 2011 GOING OUT THIS week saw one of London’s most auspicious and historic private members’ clubs magnificently unveiled. The Arts Club has reopened on Mayfair’s Dover Street and looks set to take the Big Smoke by storm. Founded in 1863 by a small group of friends including Dickens and Trollope; this most recent incarnation is likely [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS September 14, 2011 BILLINGSGATE FISH MASTERCLASS Fish lovers who work in Canary Wharf have a treat in store on Friday 30 Sep, when fine-dining Plateau’s chef, Allan Pickett, will be taking a fish masterclass at Billingsgate Market. During a jolly and informal evening, Allan will show you how to make two fish dishes – shallow fried plaice fillets [...]
Gizmos for taking films with you on the move September 14, 2011 SIZE isn’t everything” – an inaccurate platitude typically uttered by those whose equipment is lacking in some way. That’s right, folks, we’re talking about mobile media storage solutions. And in this game, the length of your battery life and the girth of your storage capacity are kingmakers. It’s no longer just music collections we want [...]
A menswear brand with technological edge September 14, 2011 STEP into menswear brand Alfred Dunhill’s London “home”, Bourdon House on Davies St in Mayfair, and you enter a world of heritage and urbanity – polished leather and wood, old-fashioned stylings, gentlemanly deference and proper tailoring. There’s even an attached gentlemen’s club that’s strictly invitation only. All very classy, but let’s just say it doesn’t [...]
Pocket watch: the next generation September 14, 2011 THOUGHT the pocket watch was a gadget relegated to history? Think again. Of late two of the most cutting edge Swiss watch companies have announced new pieces designed to be worn on a chain rather than on the wrist. The first, by Urwerk (www.urwerk.com), a brand that specialises in futuristic timepieces that bear only the [...]
OUT OF OFFICE September 14, 2011 BROKEN GLASS AT THE VAUDEVILLE Arthur Miller’s play Broken Glass, which reflects on the American Jewish experience during the Nazi ascendancy in Germany, sees the return to the London stage of two of the country’s finest actors, Anthony Sher and Tara Fitzgerald. After reading about the events of Kristallnacht, Fitzgerald’s character Sylvia is rendered paralysed. [...]
US retail sales growth stalls September 14, 2011 US retail sales failed to increase in August compared with the previous month, official figure have shown. The zero growth rate was worse than expected, and the rate for July was also revised down by the US Commerce Department, from 0.5 per cent to 0.3 per cent. Department store sales continued to suffer, according to [...]
Unemployment rises to 2.5m September 14, 2011 The number of Britons claiming unemployment benefit rose slightly less than expected last month, although the number of people without work on the wider ILO measure showed its biggest rise in two years, official data showed on Wednesday. The Office for National Statistics said the number of people claiming jobless benefit rose by 20,300 last [...]
Barratt back in the black September 14, 2011 Housebuilder Barratt Developments returned to profit for the full-year, helped by higher selling prices, and said it expected to make further progress despite the constrained housing market. The country’s largest housebuilder by volume reported full-year profit before tax and exceptional items of £42.7m, at the higher end of market estimates, compared with a loss of [...]
