In The Air: While the Lib-Cons’ squeeze on ads has left the industry feeling low, it’s not all bad news - apart from at ITV, which scored an own goal in the Champions League final... more
“Darling, you shouldn’t have!” The spousal exclamation — usually applied to bunches of flowers — is given new life by the tragicomic situation of the historian Orlando Figes... more
If London is a centre of influence, a melting pot of creative partnerships, deals, competition and unlikely alliances then last night the Evening Standard's party for London's top 1,000 influentials was a microcosm of that in action... more
Liz Hoggard, who confesses to spending almost every mealtime — and much of her salary — in the capital's dining establishments, raises a glass to London's first Restaurant Festival... more
The only surviving London home of writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson will open its doors free on Friday to mark the 300th anniversary of his birth... more
As baggage restrictions on budget airlines are so mean, it’s crucial to choose your holiday reading wisely. Here are some books that truly deserve to make the cut... more
Judging the Samuel Johnson Prize began as an over-enthusiastic book club - each of us had 40 books to read in three months - and ended in personal transformation... more
Writer Philip Hoare has made an impassioned plea to save the whale after winning Britain's most prestigious prize for non-fiction with a love letter to the world's biggest mammal... more
A book offering lessons from history on how a few bankers can bankrupt the world made it onto the shortlist of Britain’s most prestigious non-fiction prize... more
Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading.
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An account of a gruesome Victorian murder which sparked our obsession with detective novels has won the world's most lucrative non-fiction book prize... more
An exhibition at the Museum of London aims to show how well the capital's populace has adapted to fog, floods, storms and heatwaves over the years.... more
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