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Spear's Design for Living Awards 2012

Design can and should be applied to all and any aspects of a life well-lived and the wide range of categories in the Spear’s Design for Living Awards reflect this

Hong Kong Airlines to launch all Club Class flights

Hong Kong Airlines has taken delivery of its first all Club Class Airbus A330-200 passenger aircraft ahead of the launch of the flagship London route, and the first of 30 Airbus A320s to operate within Asia

New York Needs an Annabel's Style Nightclub

Boite the Heck?

Sure, the Beatrice was good, clean, grungy fun, but let’s face it, New York is crying out for a proper, grown-up, Annabel’s-style nightclub, says Daisy Prince 

Spear's Spa Selection: The Edge in Bali

Heights of Luxury

Enjoy clifftop comfort at the Edge in Bali 

Spear's Spa Selection: MesaStila in Java

Jungle Booking

MesaStila in Java is the calmest of retreats despite the volcanic surroundings

Spear's Spa Selection: Viva Mayr 

Viva Mayr is no typical spa retreat — but if you want the ultimate in health, head for Austria

Spear's Spa Selection: Chuan Spa at Langham

Langham Languor

Oriental splendour comes to the heart of London at the Langham Hotel’s Chuan Spa

Spear's Spa Selection: Six Senses Laamu

Leisure Island

Six Senses Laamu certainly makes the most of its idyllic, remote setting in the Maldives

Spear's Spa Selection: Borgo Egnazia

Hot on the Heel

Tradition meets style — and of course luxury — in Borgo Egnazia at the foot of Italy

Spear's Spa Selection: ESPA at Gleneagles

Northern Enclosure

Best known for its golf, Gleneagles in Perthshire has more than its share of indoor attractions, too

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 Spear's Salon

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

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