Spear’s is pleased to annouce the nominees in the first four categories for the Spear’s Young Turk Awards 2012. The awards, to be held on 30 May at Jack Barclay, Berkeley Square, recognise the rising stars of the private client world who are aged …
Month: April 2012
Ashenden Found: On the Trail of a Missing Somerset Maugham Book
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?
THE EXPLOITS OF John Ashenden, Willie Somerset Maugham’s British agent in the First World War, were undoubtedly based on the author’s own experiences. The release of Ashenden in 1928 was a milestone, acknowledged as the very first spy novel of the modern genre. Quite simply, Maugham’s collection of short stories began a rich literary seam that would be followed by John Dickson Carr, John Bingham, Kenneth Benton, Graham Greene, John le Carré, and his old friend Ian Fleming, all of whom served as British intelligence officers and relied on their inside knowledge to lend their thrillers a certain verisimilitude.
Are Mesher Orders Over Splitting Property Becoming More Useful Today?
As most people are aware divorce rates are on the rise again for the first time in a decade. The economy has hit the dreaded double dip recession. With quantitative easing apparently ineffective; standard variable mortgage rates increasing and property prices continuing to fall (by nearly 20% from their summer 2007 peak), how has this impacted on those people seeking to get divorced from one another?