The Independent on Sunday (London, England) back issues from June 2008:
I say, do you know Madders?
Jun 01, 2008; ... A biography of the house and family that enchanted Evelyn Waugh Madresfield: The real Brideshead By Jane Mulvagh DoubledayPounds 20 Although it covers 1,000 years or so of country house history,and comes crammed with eccentric earls and fanatic law-suits,Madresfield's two ...
The world's first edible high-rise
Jun 01, 2008; ... Pie in the sky? The potential of city-based farming could be vastly expanded ifwe extend upwards as well as using ground-level plots. Of course, one major problem with growing produce on our roofs isthe quantities of soil needed, which would add unfeasible amounts ofweight ....
Is there a critic in the house?
Jun 01, 2008; ... Isabel Fonseca is an acclaimed author in her own right, but asshe explains, it's not easy giving your spouse your debut novel toread when you're Mrs Martin Amis Jean, the 45-year-old heroine of Isabel Fonseca's debut novelAttachment, has spent her entire married life playing second ...
Ready to order?
Jun 01, 2008 ... Food Special How to decipher a modern menu When most of us look at a menu we are, usually, too busysalivating over what we are about to eat to pay too much attentionto the choice of font or the thickness of paper it is printed on.But it might be worth looking a little harder ...
Mum the gunrunner
Jun 01, 2008; ... Stealing Water By Tim Ecott Sceptre Pounds 16.99 While in South Africa I found Johannesburg to be the hub fornavigation (everywhere seemed to be "about 100K from Jo'burg") andthe litmus test for danger (you didn't slow down at traffic lightsthere for fear of hijack). In Stealing ...
Burning down the house
Jun 01, 2008; ... An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England By BrockClarke Heinemann Pounds 12.99 A comic novel disguised as a memoir, An Arsonist's Guide toWriters' Homes in New England begins with the confession note ofSamuel Pulsifer, who burned down the Emily Dickinson House ...
If you thought the Vandals were bad, meet the brown shirts
Jun 01, 2008; ... Death in Breslau By Marek Krajewski trs Danusia Stok MaclehosePounds 15.99 Breslau is now Wroclaw in Silesia, west Poland, a thrivinguniversity city 190km from Warsaw and 160km from the German border.Ever since its origination in the eighth century, the city'sposition on the ...
Michelin man
Jun 01, 2008; ... Food Special How Joel Robuchon became the world's most starred chef Who is the world's greatest living chef? As always when showeringsuperlatives on a subject, it all depends on how you define theterm. If it's bespoke iconoclastic creativity you're after, fewwould argue ...
Revenant
Jun 01, 2008; ... *** By Tristan Hughes Picador Pounds 7.99 A revenant is a person - or possibly a thing - who returns,generally from the dead. In Tristan Hughes's third novel, after 10years apart, three friends in their twenties meet up at the isolatedWelsh village they grew up in, visit ...
Crow Stone
Jun 01, 2008; ... *** By Jenni Mills Harper Perennial Pounds 7.99 Jenni Mills's debut novel is an offbeat (sometimes as insurprising; occasionally as in without rhythm) psychologicalthriller, set around the mineshafts sprawling under Bath. A femaleengineer, Kit Parry, has been given the task ...
The World Without Us
Jun 01, 2008; ... **** By Alan Weisman Virgin Pounds 8.99 If humans vanished from the Earth today, how would it look? Fromthe submerged buildings of JG Ballard's novel The Drowned World tothe last scene of Planet of the Apes, in which Charlton Hestondiscovers the Statue of Liberty half-buried ...
The Have-Nots
Jun 01, 2008; ... ** By Katharina Hackertrs Helen Atkins Europa Editions Pounds 8.99 After meeting at a party, Jakob and Isabella agree to see eachother again on the evening of 11 September 2001. They marry soonafter and move to London, so that Jakob can take a job vacated byone of his ...
A state of denial
Jun 01, 2008; ... Chinese Whispers: The true story behind Britain's hidden army oflabour By Hsiao-Hung Pai Penguin Pounds 8.99 ***** Sweatshops and dangerous factories only flourish in countriessuch as China, don't they? Places without the kind of labourlegislation we have in this country ....
Sins of the flesh
Jun 01, 2008; ... George Bush was mightily displeased with Jonathan Yeo's image ofhim. But the artist's risque joke has turned into a lucky escapefrom 'boring' society portraiture On visiting his friend Jonathan Yeo's 25ft-high Chelseaworkspace, the Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry ...
Hot stuff
Jun 01, 2008; ... Food Special Why Helene Darroze is set to become Britain's leading female chef My bet is that little Helne Darroze was born days, even weeks,later than scheduled. It's not that she is perennially late - quitethe opposite, in fact - but she seems almost ...
Julian Velard
Jun 01, 2008; ... The kid from Fame has seen the future of pop - and it's EltonJohn With his love of Elton John and penchant for writing 1970s-tinged, piano-based pop songs, Julian Velard wasn't made for thesetimes. So it's little surprise that the 28-year-old former PEteacher from Brooklyn has ...
The urban farmer
Jun 01, 2008; ... One man's crusade to plough up the inner city Fritz Haeg isn't perhaps the obvious representative of arevolution in global farming. As an architecture and design academicand practitioner, the American has had his work exhibited at TateModern and the Whitney Museum of American Art, ...
Kitchen spy
Jun 01, 2008 ... Food Special Skye Gyngell snoops on three great chefs at work This week I've had the opportunity to visit three of London'sbest restaurants and cook with three very different chefs: TheoRandall, the former River Cafe head chef whose restaurant at theInterContinental on Park ...
Big Brother Britain
Jun 01, 2008; ... Set in 2010, this satirical novel sums up all that is wrong withtoday's tabloid celebrity culture Everything Is Sinister By David Llewellyn Seren Pounds 7.99 David Llewellyn's first novel was the critically-acclaimedEleven. Published by Seren in 2006, and composed entirely ...
CONCISE CROSSWORD No. 955
Jun 01, 2008 ... SC FOR 6Dn/18Ac By Mass The entries marked "?" have something in common suggested by theunclued answer(s) forming the puzzle's title Across 1 ? (6) 4 Classical underworld (5) 8 Dissuade (5) 9 Tuneful (7) 10 Inquisitive (7) 11 Unit ...
Different strokes
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE COLLECTION Jonathan Yeo's four favourite portraitists John Currin "He's the best painter in the US. If you're looking to spendmoney on art, it's a no-brainer. He's an Old Master of the future.He genuinely loves his subject matter and really wants to ...
Albert Roux & Eric Lanlard
Jun 01, 2008; ... How we met 'When I resigned, Albert ignored me for two months. I was veryupset' Eric Lanlard 40 is a master ptissier. He recently opened his first shop, cafe andcookery school, Cake Boy, and has made wedding cakes for celebritiesincluding Madonna, Claudia Schiffer ...
POKER
Jun 01, 2008; ... The normal factors taken into account for the all-important firstdecision - whether or not to enter a hold 'em pot - are the strengthof one's starting hand, position at the table and what the playerson one's right have done. If the player under the gun - first to act- has raised, then a ...
Tony Robinson
Jun 01, 2008; ... Tony Robinson's Crime and Punishment Today 7pm Channel 4 Tony Robinson has been many things - an actor, a writer, abroadcaster - but these days he's settling nicely into his ownniche: creating and presenting programmes that put the "story" into"history". "I think the niche found ...
Doors open for new buyers. But will they like what's inside?
Jun 01, 2008; ... MORTGAGES First-timers can dodge a big deposit, but only if theyopen another account with their lender. By Esther Shaw With so much turmoil in the mortgage market, finding a good dealhas become increasingly hard for borrowers - and especially toughfor those who can raise only a ...
The deposit was paid and the car dealer did a U-turn
Jun 01, 2008; ... Consumer rights Q I put a deposit of 99 on a car at the Evans Halshaw dealership. When the monthly price for the finance came back, it was higherthan originally quoted and more than I'd planned to spend. When I went to collect my deposit, having cancelled the ...
FINANCIAL SERVICES Complaints escalate
Jun 01, 2008 ... The consumer revolt over bank charges has led to a surge incomplaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). More than 123,000 were made in the year to April 2008. "By theend of the financial year, we had received more new complaints thanin any year since the ombudsman was ...
BANKING Watchdog accused of not going in hard enough on mis-selling
Jun 01, 2008 ... The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been accused of beinga "passive bystander" to bank mis-selling. The broadside came from consumer group Which? in reaction torecent evidence of misleading advertising and failures exposed bythe FSA's own "mystery shopping" exercises. Which? ...
TRAVEL Beware of hard-sell holiday club scams, OFT warns British tourists
Jun 01, 2008 ... British tourists are being warned by the Office of Fair Trading(OFT) not to fall for holiday-club scams. Sales people working in resorts often persuade people to paylarge upfront fees to join clubs that promise cheap holidays in thefuture. Once the fee has been handed over, ...
HOUSING Loans for new purchases slump by 40 per cent
Jun 01, 2008 ... Further evidence has emerged of the torpor in the mortgagemarket. The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has reported that thenumber of new loans taken out to purchase a property in April wasdown 39.4 per cent on the same month a year ago. This reflects the continuing problems ...
Honey, I've sent the kids to a summer holiday camp ...
Jun 01, 2008; ... CHILDCARE How will you keep them entertained and how can youafford it? Kate Hughes looks at schemes that will stretch childrenbut not break the bank The long summer school holiday is less than two months away. Andfor parents footing the bill to entertain the kids, the ...
Want the best home loan? Then you're on your own, kid
Jun 01, 2008; ... PROPERTY Laura Howard and Annie Shaw explain why borrowers can nolonger look to mortgage brokers in hunting down the most attractivedeals During the seemingly endless golden era of cheap mortgage ratesand aggressive competition among lenders, going to a broker was seenas the most ...
CITY REGULATION Lord Turner to take top spot at FSA
Jun 01, 2008 ... Lord Turner is to be the new chairman of the Financial ServicesAuthority (FSA). He will take up the role when Sir Callum McCarthysteps down in September. Adair Turner (inset), a former head of the CBI, is most famousfor his work in overhauling the UK pensions system. Often in ...
Jamaica on a plate
Jun 01, 2008; ... Food Special Chef Patrick Williams visits the home of the barbie When I was was little we would go to Jamaica regularly," saysnorth London-born chef Patrick Williams. "At my aunt's place nearSpanish Town there were five different types of mango trees, ackeetrees, coconut ...
HELPLINES Which? names 30 firms in its 'hall of shame'
Jun 01, 2008 ... Banks, utility firms and government agencies are scoopingmillions of pounds each year from their customer helplines, theconsumer group Which? has said. More than 30 organisations were named in the Which? "hall ofshame", including British Gas, Barclays and Tiscali, as well as ...
Fizz, bang!
Jun 01, 2008; ... Food Special Does English bubbly beat Champagne? Over the past few years, a staple headline in the press has beena variation of "Global Warming Helps English Wine Beat Champagne inBlind Tasting". While standards of wine-making in this country areon the up (investments have ...
Welcome to the summer food special
Jun 01, 2008 ... What a feast we've prepared! You'll meet the woman set to takeBritain's restaurant scene by storm, the man with the most Michelinstars in the world, and the visionary who wants to turn the lot ofus into vegetable ...
POP
Jun 01, 2008; ... Ladytron Velocifero NETTWERK Lately, Ladytron have shifted away from pristine digitalismtowards the analogue fuzz of valves and pedals, and the quartet'sfourth album continues that trend. It's been criticised forsameyness, but viewed from another perspective, it can be praisedfor ...
CLASSICAL
Jun 01, 2008; ... Pekiel/Lilius/Mielczewski Polish Baroque - Ensemble EuropeenWilliam Byrd EDITIONS AMBRONAY O'Reilly's latest recording with Ensemble Europeen William Byrdand the cornetts and sackbutts of Ensemble Ventosum focuses on themusic of Poland's golden age, when the court and cathedral ...
WORLD
Jun 01, 2008; ... Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol 5 ASPHALT TANGO Gabi Lunca was the supreme Gypsy diva of Romania's MusicaLautareasca, and is now mostly to be heard in Pentecostal churches,but she was once a daily fixture on radio and a hugely sought-afterwedding performer. Her Sixties and Seventies ...
JAZZ
Jun 01, 2008; ... Cassandra Wilson Loverly BLUE NOTE With any other singer, a return to a standards format after yearsof cautious experimentation could be seen as a retreat. WithCassandra Wilson, it's just another chance to gawp at what anincredible star she remains. Like her original standards ...
ROCK
Jun 01, 2008; ... The Zutons You Can Do Anything DELTASONIC What's not to like about Liverpool's the Zutons? Only that theirbest song sounds better performed by Amy Winehouse or that theyshove photogenic saxophonist Abi Harding to the front of every photowhen the poor girl hardly features on their ...
CLASSICAL
Jun 01, 2008; ... Beethoven Sonatas Opus 54, 57, 78, 79 and 81a - Andras Schiff ECMNEW SERIES Volume VI of Andras Schiff's Beethoven cycle takes us to theyears 1804-1810 and a post-Eroica style in which the Classicaltemplate has been all but erased. It is impossible to fault Schiff'sattention to ...
Chill out in this grown-up clubbers' haven
Jun 01, 2008; ... HOTEL OF THE WEEK As the party season officially begins in Ibiza today, get awayfrom the hordes in this stylish retreat in a sleepy village Superclub Space opens its doors today in Ibiza, marking the startof the island's party season. And the chicest place to crash inpeace ...
Flood warning: how long will insurers step into the breach?
Jun 01, 2008; ... A year ago this month, Hull, a city of more than a quarter of amillion people, was hit by a flood of almost biblical proportions.The rain fell at an astonishing rate - 18 Olympic-sized swimmingpools every second - and when it finally stopped, 17,000 homes and92 schools were damaged, many ...
A short climb up some long stairs on the Grand Union Canal
Jun 01, 2008; ... WALK OF THE MONTH Foxton Locks, a giant staircase for barges, is a marvel of 19th-century engineering, says Mark Rowe Britain's passion for waterways is exemplified by Foxton Locks.This 10-lock staircase, on the border of Northamptonshire andLeicestershire, links the ...
The world wakes up to eco eating
Jun 01, 2008; ... FOOD OF THE WEEK Organic, biodynamic and sustainable ingredients are increasinglyon restaurant menus around the world. Danish chefs Rasmus Kofoed and Soren Ledet won a Michelin starfor their biodynamic, organic cuisine at Geranium, Kongens Have,Kronprinsessegade 13, ...
All alone in the South China Sea?
Jun 01, 2008; ... EXOTIC BREAKS How long before Malaysia's atoll Tioman emulates itssophisticated neighbour Langkawi, asks Sophie Lam There are lots of people who like to think that they've"discovered" the next secret destination. And that's what lots ofpeople do when they smugly arrive on ...
Place your bets with the ratatouille pack in Vegas
Jun 01, 2008; ... AMERICAN BREAKS Big name American and French chefs have transformed dining in theNevada desert from cheap nosh to top notch. Andy Lynes reports In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack were the lords ofLas Vegas. Now, the American chef Thomas Keller and his ...
AROUND THE UK
Jun 01, 2008; ... 1 Head for Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes today, where a 'ChittyChitty Bang Bang' event will celebrate the centenary of the birth ofauthor Ian Fleming. There'll be plenty of family activities, notleast the chance to win a ride in the original car (visitsoutheastengland.com). 2 ...
THIS WEEK'S TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS
Jun 01, 2008 ... The book Take an illustrated walk along London's South Bank with the Tateto Tate guide. The brightly drawn characters who populate thesepages tell the story of the Thames's bridges, buildings and museums.Price 10. The villa Departing 13 June, you and four friends can ...
Cycle south Austria
Jun 01, 2008 ... Two wheel touring in Carinthia, the land that tourism forgot,with Sankha Guha INSIDE Hotel of ...
A few of our favourite things about Austria
Jun 01, 2008; ... PEOPLE AND PLACES A cycling holiday through southern Austria'sforgotten Carinthiaregion had Sankha Guhaand his family humming with pleasure A family holiday in Austria? It does sound like a sick joke inthese darkened times. Austria is not one of Europe's more ...
ARE WE THERE YET?
Jun 01, 2008; ... We spent a chunk of last weekend on a stationary train. (It wassupposed to go to Thetford, but it didn't have a driver.) No onecomplained: it seems that we Brits are used to sitting on trains tonowhere. But if we're going to do it, we may as well do it in style. Andwhat better ...
DVD
Jun 01, 2008; ... No Country for Old Men Retail & Rental PARAMOUNT After years of jokey pastiches and remakes, the Coen brothersreturn to committed film-making with this Oscar-winning CormacMcCarthy adaptation. Its three stars are Josh Brolin as a Texan whopinches a suitcase of cash from a desert ...
ROOTS
Jun 01, 2008; ... Dr John and the Lower 911 City That Care Forgot COOKING VINYL The title might lead you to conclude that the Doc's new album isa single-issue tirade on behalf of the wounded of New Orleans.Wrong. The album takes the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrinaas its nuclear focus but ...
JAZZ
Jun 01, 2008; ... Bobby Hutcherson Head On BLUE NOTE It's 1971, the place is Los Angeles and the music (take a deepbreath) is sort of free-jazz meets Third Stream meets blackconsciousness fusion. Both Ndugu Leon Chancler and Stix Hooper playdrums, along with three more percussionists in an orchestra ...
POP
Jun 01, 2008; ... My Brightest Diamond A Thousand Shark's Teeth ASTHMATIC KITTY Shara Worden is one of those artists who is impossible not toadmire but difficult to love. On the multi-instrumentalist's secondalbum as My Brightest Diamond, Worden again displays her range,sweeping from Bjrk-like ...
The Mary Whitehouse biopic experience: too much marital sex!
Jun 01, 2008; ... Television Filth: the Mary Whitehouse Story BBC2 Painted Babies Growing Up BBC4 Imagine ... BBC1 A Taste of My LIfe BBC2 Forty-five years after Mary Whitehouse started campaigningagainst the BBC, it presents her life story in the form of asympathetic ...
Lovers blown apart by the fickle winds of war
Jun 01, 2008; ... Theatre Soldiers are hailed as homecoming heroes in Shakespeare's Trojantragedy Troilus and Cressida Barbican LONDON Fat Pig Trafalgar Studios LONDON The Cherry Orchard Festival Theatre CHICHESTER Complaints have been raised that our troops, these ...
One way of thinking outside the box
Jun 01, 2008; ... Dance Sutra Sadler's Wells LONDON There must be countless men in their thirties who claimed BruceLee as their boyhood hero. Unlike most, though, Sidi Larbi Cherkaouihas achieved the ultimate kung-fu dream. He has spent two monthsliving and training alongside the warrior ...
How's this for a first film? It's also the director's last
Jun 01, 2008; ... Film 2 California Dreamin' (Endless) Cristian Nemescu 155 MINS, 15 In 2006, Romanian director Cristian Nemescu was killed in atraffic accident, while still editing his first feature, to betitled California Dreamin'. The following year, his film screened inCannes, winning top ...
Strap on your Manolos: the girls are back in town
Jun 01, 2008; ... Film The big-screen follow-up to the hugely successful televisionseries will delight fans, but leave the uninitiated baffled Sex and the City MICHAEL PATRICK KING 145 MINS, 15 I'm not sure that the new Sex and the City film counts as a filmat all. You've got to hand ...
Life for the artist beyond the bedsit wall
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE BIG TICKET Visual art Klimt's decorative images are reproduced in a million studentrooms, but surely the radical artist leaves a greater legacy? Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900Tate LIVERPOOL A moral conundrum this week: is it ...
The American Dream is dead, but the Boss isn't
Jun 01, 2008; ... Rock Three hours of a musical State of the Union address never failsto thrill, even if the E Street Band is doing an old-age shuffle Bruce Springsteen Old Trafford MANCHESTER Public Enemy Brixton Academy LONDON Bruce Springsteen is responsible for one of my ...