Travel

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

View From 1A: From Moscow to Manila

Land of the Rising Sum

At 30,000 feet between Moscow and Manila, peripatetic property panjandrum John Hitchcox reflects on why — however scrambled his personal compass — these days all signs point East 

Property Guru Sergey Sander on Relocating Russian and Asian HNWs to Switzerland

Sander Castles

Russian and Asian HNWs need more help buying property in the likes of Switzerland than estate agents provide. This is where Sergey Sander comes in, says Christopher Silvester 

Rubenstein on One Sandy Lane

A Residence Apart
 
Who lives in a house like this? William Cash is sure that there are billionaires out there ready to be seduced by One Sandy Lane’s infinite charms

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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