Diary
David Linley
The final printed copy of my new book has just arrived on my desk, and I can’t help but feel like a schoolboy opening my stocking on Christmas Day as I unwrap the cellophane and it creaks open in that delicious way that brand new books do.
Anthony Haden-Guest
Fast forwards. When the history of the American Empire is written one reason given for its decline may well be that they play the Wrong Sort of Football.
Caroline Michel
To celebrate the Spear's Book Awards on June 30th, Caroline Michel, one of the country's top literary agents and CEO of the PFD agency, has written the Spear's Diary for the forthcoming summer issue.
Andrew Roberts
An invitation arrives for the launch of Alain de Botton’s new book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, which will doubtless be great fun. Yet it joins a weirdly bare mantelshelf.
Victoria Aitken
GSTAAD DIARY
Right off the train I went to the Palace Hotel to meet Ivan Lindsay, my holiday host. I wondered, could the chicest ski resort in the world sustain its reputation when the only thing crunchier than its fresh snow is the economy?
Hong Kong diary
An ex-pat living in Hong Kong told me last night that they knew what Superman must have felt after leaving Krypton, coming to Earth and discovering he was all-powerful.
Exclusive: Conrad Black's Jail Diary
"I write to you from a US federal prison. It is far from a country club or even a regimental health spa."
Spear's exclusively has the full-length version of Conrad Black's jail diary, written from his prison in Florida. For his unedited thoughts on law and order (or lack thereof) in the United States, click here.
Richard Kay
The ‘season’ is upon us, that extraordinary six weeks in which sport, opera and horticulture collide with social climbing, arcane dress codes, royalty and snobbery.
Stephen Webster
I usually start my build-up to Christmas in August. Not because I’m eight years old, but because I’m a jeweller.
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Books
Madness Under the Royal Palms
Laurence Leamer
Life in Palm Beach, writes Laurence Leamer, ‘is like an elaborate costume party in which one can wear whatever outfit one wants as long as the mask never falls. For over a century, people have come to the exclusive community to reinvent themselves by cloaking themselves in the illusions of wealth. They often build second acts so unrelated to the first that their biographies are like two different lives mysteriously attached to each other.’
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
Too many financial history books lack pace, often mired by an overly scholastic approach. Liaquat Ahamed’s magisterial study is not only a compelling exception, but also perfectly-timed as we find ourselves living again in the shadows of a major financial crisis.
Nowhere Man
David Yarrow
David Yarrow has taken his camera around the world and published the results in his book Nowhere. Here is a portfolio of his best shots
HNW Events
Ana Mendieta
19 February 2010
Beer Investment Evening
25 February 2010
Mat Collishaw
26 February 2010
Richard Hamilton
03 March 2010
The Diary
David Linley
17 Dec 2009
Anthony Haden-Guest
14 Sep 2009
Caroline Michel
13 May 2009
Andrew Roberts
24 Feb 2009
Victoria Aitken
08 Jan 2009
