Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury becomes the latest firm to report soaring e-book sales in the UK, generating £1.1 million between January and March... more
Is City Spy missing something or isn't there an element of "here we go again" in reports that Chancellor George Osborne wants to ease the liquidity requirements on banks to increase borrowing?... more
Harry Potter publisher Bloombsury, which has just won the Booker Prize with Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question, gives an upbeat trading update... more
Delia can do no wrong, particularly at Christmas, in Melanie McDonagh's eyes, but other imaginative and user-friendly food writers also find favour in her round-up... more
Gordon Ramsay is not the only high-profile celebrity chef having a hard time of it. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the old Etonian contemporary of David Cameron, is not exactly flush with cash.... more
Planting your own vegetables in small London gardens is a near pointless gesture - you need an allotment to produce enough to cut your shopping bill significantly - and keeping six chickens won't turn you into an agri-business... more
Singers Mick Jagger and Jamie Cullum were left looking positively pint-sized last night as they arrived with their statuesque girlfriends at a charity banquet in London... more
It was the charity banquet with a difference, a £1,000-ahead five-course meal made of ingredients all grown, plucked or fished from in and around London... more
It's the £1,000 dinner with a difference. Guests at a charity banquet in London next month can look forward to soup made from nettles picked from Hyde Park, and wild fennel plucked from the banks of the Regent's Canal in Hackney... more
The first Whole Foods Market in Europe opened in London this week, adding to the tasty choice of organic stores across the capital's most fashionable areas.... more
Most fine-dining establishments in London now claim to be environmentally friendly but the bar has been set at a new height by Acorn House, a restaurant that aims to be 'carbon neutral'.... more
After years of sterling work at the River Cafe, chef Theo Randall now has a place of his own. But the Park Lane venue is a surprising choice, writes Fay Maschler.... more
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