Home > The Magazine > Books

Tuesday 2 December 2008

Dare to dream and make your ultimate trip a reality

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Michael Henderson

Michael Henderson suggests

Email registration

Free weekly email update

Great products and special offers for Spectator readers

Click here for great value events

Click here for exclusive articles, offers, tasting notes and discussion

Sunlight on stucco

Rachel Johnson

The power of the evasive word

The Economist Book of Obituaries, by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe

Deadlier than the male

When does a novel stop being a novel and become a crime story? It’s often assumed that there is an unbridgeable gap between them, but that’s not necessarily so.

Not just Hitler

The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945, by Richard L. Evans

The done thing

The Politics of Official Apologies, by Melissa Nobles

Arts

Enchanted forest

Hänsel und Gretel
Royal Academy of Music

Jenufa
Birmingham Hippodrome

Pelléas et Mélisande
Sadler’s Wells

Highs and lows on the laughometer

Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World’s Most Curious Presents, by Robin Laurance

Chalk and cheese

The British in France: Visitors and Residents since the Revolution, by Peter Thorold

Style & Travel

Pink and potent

Never gamble your pension on a food fashion.

Stocking- filler fizz

Stuck for stocking-filler ideas and feel like raising an insouciant middle finger to the credit crunch?

Brown has played into the hands of the Tory Bullingdon Boys he loathes

Fraser Nelson says that the Pre-Budget Report killed off New Labour without landing a punch on the Tories. It has paved the way for a new Conservatism, in which Cameron woos aspirational voters, focuses on government debt and looks for responsible spending cuts

Fraser Nelson