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Spear's writers recommend what they're reading now and what they've loved in the past. All of these books are available in the Spear's/Amazon store
Spear's Book Awards 2010: Winners
The second Spear’s Book Awards, in association with Citi Private Bank, celebrating the very best writing talent and the books of the year – from finance to fiction – took place today (July 5th, 2010), at a glamorous literary lunch held at the legendary Criterion restaurant.
Jumby Bay Dispatches IV
The trouble with too many hotels today is that when it comes to 'relaxing', the spa has replaced the library.
Jumby Bay Dispatches III
Updike's prose reads like somebody who writes too cosily. Greene and Wolfe prefer to get their hands (and notebooks) dirty.
Books Books Books
I have plenty. I have too many. I would estimate that I currently have a ten-to-one buying-to-reading ratio.
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Don't Blame the Shorts
In Britain, Anglican bishops have condemned short sellers, yet the C of E uses currency hedging as part of its investment strategy. Whatever you may think of bankers, Sloan wishes to persuade you that short sellers have been consistently scapegoated through recent history and that they are socially useful.
Cheerful Money
Friend’s growing-up tracked the decline of Wasp influence, which he scrutinises wittily through the prism of this family memoir. ‘The branches of my family tree were bowed with squires, judges, ministers, senators, and colonial dames,’ he writes.
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