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A Voice from Old New York
In one of Peter Sellers’s marvellous late Fifties comedy records he has an old toff reminiscing — Sellers was brilliant at a whole range of English class-based voices — visiting an old bed-ridden retainer in his tiny low-ceilinged hovel, the loyal creature struggles to sit up, bangs his head on an overhead beam and expires
The Pendulum
Stephen Hill swings between pessimism about the West’s bloated balance sheets and optimism about the chance to reshape our economics. What to do?
Oi!
The chav phenomenon reignites old debates about class, social mobility and government policy in Britain. Innit, says Christopher Silvester
Remains of the Hay
Literary festivals and creative writing courses are killing serious novels, says William Cash. And Kazuo Ishiguro agrees...
Spear's Book Awards: What the Judges Said
Extracts from the judges' comments and presenters' speechs from the Spear's Book Awards 2011
And the Show Went On
As for Paris’s inhabitants: unless you were a Jew or an outright résistant, you would be left to get on with your business. It is this fascinating area of cohabitation, in all its complexity and nuance, which the veteran American journalist Alan Riding explores in a powerfully researched book that tells the whole story for the first time in detail, in English
The Hellhound of Wall Street
Michael Perino, a law professor and former Wall Street litigator, has produced a humdinger of a first book. Like another first book, Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed, The Hellhound of Wall Street is a dazzling example of how to write financial history that is thick with drama and atmosphere, expertly placed in its historical context, and scrupulously fair-minded in assessing the merits of its hero
Spear's Book Awards 2011 Photos
Photos from the Spear's Book Awards 2011, in association with Citi Private Bank
Spear's Book Awards 2011 Winners' Photos
Photos of the winners from the Spear's Book Awards 2011, in association with Citi Private Bank
Spear's Book Awards 2011
The third Spear’s Book Awards, celebrating the very best writing talent and British books of the year — from finance to fiction — will take place on Monday 27 June at a glamorous literary lunch at Massimo's at the Corinthia, London's newest grand hotel
Books
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Michael Lewis
Kyle Bass, a Texas-based hedge-fund manager who did well out of shorting the sub-prime property market before the 2008 financial crisis, used to play the international strategy board game Risk as a kid, which led him to find out everything about a tiny country called Iceland, which was a key strategic location in the game
The Gentry: Stories of the English
Adam Nicolson
How delicious the notion of the gentry is. How beautifully it shades into every kind of 19th-century fraudulence, into Eric Hobsbawm’s Invention of Tradition. How easily it locks on to the much later and altogether more middle-class idea of the gentleman
Zahawi and Hancock on 'Masters of Nothing'
Anne McElvoy
The Wide Blue Yonder
A new breed of Tory MPs emerged from the 2010 general election, and already some are making their mark. Anne McElvoy looks at two of Cameron’s cabal
HNW Events
Spear's/Speechly Bircham Seminar: How to be a philanthropist in the 21st century
21 February 2012
Spear's Young Turk Awards 2012
01 April 2012
Spear's Design for Living Awards 2012
01 May 2012
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum 2012
19 September 2012
The Diary
Mark Hix
04 Jan 2012
Amanda Palmer
22 Nov 2011
Patrick Perrin
11 Oct 2011
Nicky Haslam
05 Aug 2011
Stephen Webster
06 Jul 2011