Books

Review: Inventing Elsa Maxwell

Elsa Maxwell was a 20th-century phenomenon. If the event-management business wanted a patroness saint, then she fits the bill better than anyone, having thrown about 3,000 parties in her lifetime and attended many more.

Spear's Book Awards 2013: Shortlists Announced

Nominees in six categories of the fifth annual Spear's Book Awards have been announced. The awards, which cover everything from finance to fiction, will be presented at a lunch in late September

Review: Sorry! The English and Their Manners

Are the English uniquely class-conscious? Does it display itself in our manners, the manneredness of our manners?

Review: Prairie Fever: How British Aristocrats Staked a Claim to the American West

For a little over 50 years a host of British aristocrats, whose dreams were nourished by western adventure fiction, variously treated the American West as their sporting playground or, later, established farms and ranches there

Review: Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy

Those centuries of oppression — of wielding the knout on the backs of the poor — had to end in tears, didn’t they?

Daisy Waugh Book Launch Party

Daisy Waugh and Rachel Johnson

Daisy Waugh celebrates the launch of her new book at the Mandarin Oriental

Spear's Book Awards 2013: Nominate Here

We want to hear the best books you've read in the past year

Review: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich

Freeland argues that the global super-rich are engaging in their own serrata. They educate their children at elite universities in what has become ‘an intergenerational form of rent-seeking’ and they float from one tax jurisdiction to another in ‘their own global gated community’. 

Review: Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden

The whole thing feels like a total immersion installation where you get the lot coming at you — the sights, the voices and the smells.

Charmed by The Love-Charm of Bombs

I've been reading a book with the wonderful title of 'The Love-Charm of Bombs', which examines the literary work and loves of four wartime writers

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 Spear's Salon

Books

Review: Inventing Elsa Maxwell

Christopher Silvester

Elsa Maxwell was a 20th-century phenomenon. If the event-management business wanted a patroness saint, then she fits the bill better than anyone, having thrown about 3,000 parties in her lifetime and attended many more.

Spear's Book Awards 2013: Shortlists Announced

Nominees in six categories of the fifth annual Spear's Book Awards have been announced. The awards, which cover everything from finance to fiction, will be presented at a lunch in late September

Review: Sorry! The English and Their Manners

Peter York

Are the English uniquely class-conscious? Does it display itself in our manners, the manneredness of our manners?