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Diary

Vicky Ward

New York at the start of a year is a place of hope.

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.

Elisabeth Thurn und Taxis

My week kicks off with a double date: I committed to a private charity dinner, way before even thinking about Frieze Art Fair.

My Summer Resolutions are to stay in Gloucestershire for the whole of August and to eat healthily. I’m sick of flying, loathe crowds and feel sluggish. My idea of heaven is to get up in my own house and not leave it.

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Spear's Salon

A Very English Revolution

“...The battle over the government’s planning reforms was a very English Revolution.”

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William Cash

Books

Spear's/Amazon Bookstore

You can buy all the books reviewed in Spear's and mentioned in it or on spearswms.com in the Spear's/Amazon Bookstore

Spear's Book Awards 2012: Nominate here

The fourth Spear’s Book Awards, celebrating the very best writing talent and British books of the year — from finance to fiction — will take place in late June at a glamorous literary lunch in central London

Ashenden Found: On the Trail of a Missing Somerset Maugham Book

Nigel West

Nigel West dons his dark glasses and fedora and heads to the Hotel d'Angleterre in Geneva, where Somerset Maugham stayed as a spy in the First World War. Has Maugham's destroyed book been found?