The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from May 2007:
Personally speaking The mystery of Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes
May 06, 2007; ... Eighteen months ago, just as I had finished writing a jointbiography of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, I wastaken to lunch by a publisher who generously offered me pounds 500,000to write a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Momentarilytempted (wouldn't ...
IT'LL BE TWITCHERS AT DAWN ...
May 06, 2007; ... DID YOU KNOW THAT TODAY IS International Dawn Chorus Day? It has awebsite and everything. Apparently, '2007 will be the biggest andbest'. It certainly will for me because it's an annual event which,up until a few days ago, I had no idea I had been missing. It'sadvertised as a global ...
seven says this is the week to ... 06.05.07
May 06, 2007; ... AVOID getting squished by a giant cheese at the annual cheese-rolling championships in Stilton, Cambridgeshire. From 10am tomorrow; www.stilton.org SNOOP behind the scenes at the British Museum in the first of arevealing 10-part documentary series beginning on Thursday on ...
AND YOU WORE IT WELL BOOKS IF YOU LIVED THOUGH ROCK'S GOLDEN AGE AND ALL YOU GOT WAS THAT LOUSY GENESIS T-SHIRT, DON'T DESPAIR: YOU COULD BE THE OWNER OF A VALUABLE CULTURAL ARTEFACT. PAUL MORLEY REMEMBERS THE TIME WHEN MERCHANDISING ACTUALLY MEANT SOMETHING
May 06, 2007; ... As you slip into your favourite Sunday T-shirt, consider how muchhistory is pressed into the garment and how much the image, logo orslogan that is, or isn't, on the front, explains about your age, sexand cultural preferences. You are dressing yourself in history andopening yourself up to ...
i wanna wear black tights Spider-Man 3 Fast Food Nation CINEMA
May 06, 2007; ... It must be difficult to maintain the illusion of equality ifyou're in a relationship with a superhero. One whiff of a city incrisis, and your man is instantly tugging on his stretchy tights andzooming out the window. He inspires ticker-tape parades while you arestuck at home to ...
OTHER RELEASES
May 06, 2007; ... The Upside of Anger Goya's Ghosts Bridge to Terabithia Dans Paris Mutual Appreciation The Transformers: the Movie The Upside of Anger (15) American Beauty has a lot to answer for. Seven years after itsrelease, and film-makers are still ...
MY FAVOURITE MOVIES
May 06, 2007; ... I remember the first two films I watched on video. One was FirstBlood (below) the original Rambo film. It was nothing like Rambo orthose kind of testosterone, kill-a-million-people sort of films.First Blood was a very gritty, realistic story about this Vietnamveteran who returns home and ...
DVDs
May 06, 2007; ... LONDON TO BRIGHTON ????? Momentum Pictures, 18, pounds 17.99 Director Paul Andrew Williams made this British thriller for underpounds 300,000 and it's more riveting than many a movie costing 10times as much. Two girls - a prostitute and a child runaway - fleeLondon for ...
DVDs
May 06, 2007; ... THINGS TO COME ????? Network, PG, pounds 18.99 This early (1936) sci-fi epic has all the credentials ofgreatness: produced by Alexander Korda, adapted by H.G. Wells fromhis own The Shape of Things to Come, memorably scored by ArthurBliss, part designed by Lszl Moholy-Nagy, ...
OTHER THEATRE
May 06, 2007; ... That Face Elling That Face Royal Court Jerwood Upstairs, London SW1 (020 7565 5000) to 19 May Dominic Cooke, the Royal Court's new artistic director, promisedmiddle-class plays that would speak to the theatre's captiveaudience, and Polly Stenham's That Face - ...
First-class delivery
May 06, 2007; ... The Letter Rafta, Rafta ... If good, old-fashioned plays are coming back into fashion in theWest End, then Bill Kenwright deserves a lot of the credit. Afterbankrolling works by Tennessee Williams and Christopher Hampton inrecent months, the old showman is now having a ...
THEATRE CHOICE
May 06, 2007 ... Macbeth RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford (0870 609 1110) nextperformance on 1 June, in rep to 21 July. Patrick O'Kane's Macbeth isa towering, sweating, testosterone-charged brute - a staggeringportrait of villainy at the heart of Conall ...
encounters noble and savage
May 06, 2007; ... Between Worlds In 1710 four leaders of the Native North American Indian allianceof the Iroquois left their homeland and travelled to England. Thesedelegates found themselves in a difficult position, controllingterritory sandwiched between the British settlements along theeastern ...
ART CHOICE
May 06, 2007; ... Martin Creed Hauser & Wirth Coppermill, London E2 (020 7287 2300)to 29 July. A chance to see if Creed can do more than switch alightbulb on and ...
CITYGUIDE Manchester SEVEN HAS TEAMED UP WITH NESCAF COLLECTION TO BRING YOU THE BEST NEW EVENTS IN MANCHESTER. FROM CATS TO KRISHNA - PLUS PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE
May 06, 2007 ... MAHABHARATAPalace Theatre 29 May-2 June 0870 607 7471 It's clearly the year for India's epic poems. In February, DavidFarr staged his adaptation of The Ramayana. Now, in a stunning pieceof dance theatre, comes a retelling of India's other great ...
The mirror monster
May 06, 2007; ... Maxwell The Lie of the Land The Worst Journey in the World A bulky middle-aged man with bootblack hair stares at the cameraand gives what he clearly believes to be an ingratiating smile. 'Hi,I'm Bob Maxwell,' he says, 'and I'm here to talk to you about ...
CDs Out this week
May 06, 2007; ... This work, so heartily detested by Bernard Shaw, can often soundlike the musical equivalent of sticky toffee pudding, but SimonRattle brings a light touch to it without sacrificing weight where itis needed. He obtains sensitive singing from the Berlin choir andrichly coloured playing ...
buddhists in valhalla
May 06, 2007; ... Wagner Dream Mahler Conducting Competition Wagner Dream, Jonathan Harvey's new opera, embraces so fully hislong-held philosophical and Buddhist preoccupations that it mustcount as one of this British composer's most self-defining works. A beautifully performed premiere ...
fame sounds like this
May 06, 2007; ... Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake's unimaginative show business arrival at theSheffield Hallam Arena would not explain to the undecided why he isso adored and monitored. He sluggishly rises up from beneath thestage as if he's not quite sure where the hell he is. Naturally ...
CDs Out this week
May 06, 2007; ... Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have always been very good at makingthat boomy, raw garage rock which makes you want to wear leather anddark glasses and feel like you're Lou Reed on serious drugs, man. Butto my ears until now they've always sounded a bit derivative (Jesusand Mary Chain) ....
POP CHOICE
May 06, 2007; ... The Klaxons Glasgow Academy (0870 169 0100) tonight; BirminghamAcademy (0870 771 2000) Mon; Nottingham Rock City (08713 100000) Tue;Leeds Met University (0871 2200 260) Wed; Northumbria University(0191 261 2606) Fri; Liverpool Academy (0870 771 2000) Sat. Thedecade's most inventive ...
blurred sins DANCE
May 06, 2007; ... Royal Ballet triple bill: The Seven Deadly Sins ????? Pierrot Lunaire ????? Fin du jour ????? Mahabarata ????? William Tuckett's inventive productions for the Linbury Studio -Wind in the Willows, Pinocchio, A Soldier's Tale - almost blotted outunhappy ...
DANCE CHOICE
May 06, 2007 ... 'Mayerling' Royal Ballet, London WC2 (020 7304 4000), tomorrow at2pm and 7.30pm. Rough sex, hard drugs and tertiary syphilis make arather bracing change from Prince meets Swan. The Prince inMacMillan's 1978 ballet is Crown Prince Rudolf, and the RoyalBallet's ...
CHANGE WILLIAM LEITH DISCOVERS WHY WE SHOULD LEARN TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
May 06, 2007; ... The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable BY NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 20, 366 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 I first came across the name Nassim Nicholas Taleb in a New Yorkerarticle by Malcolm Gladwell. Taleb ...
TRAVEL AN IDIOSYNCRATIC CRUISE AROUND THE SOUTH SEAS LEAVES FRANCES WILSON FEELING ADRIFT
May 06, 2007; ... Coconut Chaos: Pitcairn, Mutiny and a Seduction at Sea BY DIANA SOUHAMI WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 14.99, 259 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Coconut Chaos tells what happened when Fletcher Christian, themaster's mate on board ...
LAND SMALLHOLDINGS SUIT PIGS, VEGETABLES, CHICKENS AND ASSORTED MUSINGS, FINDS CLIVE ASLET
May 06, 2007; ... Our Farm: A Year in the Life of a Smallholding BY ROSIE BOYCOTT BLOOMSBURY, pounds 15.99, 304 pp T pounds 13.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 A Handful of Earth: A Year of Healing and Growing BY BARNEY BARDSLEY JOHN MURRAY, ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'love among the chickens' by p. g. wodehouse
May 06, 2007; ... Love Among the Chickens (1906) is a highly significant work in theP. G. Wodehouse canon. For a start, it is Wodehouse's first novel foradults. It is also his first fiction of any kind to feature StanleyFeatherstonehaugh Ukridge - he of the 'big, broad, flexible outlook'and the pince-nez ...
SUBCONTINENT INDIA'S ASTONISHING BOOM STEMS FROM ITS ABILITY TO ABSORB CONFLICT, SAYS SUNIL KHILNANI
May 06, 2007; ... India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy BY RAMACHANDRA GUHA MACMILLAN, pounds 25, 871 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Just when news of India's software boom - leaching service jobsfrom the Western economies - seems to ...
CRIME PHILIP HOARE IS ENTHRALLED BY A PLOT TO KIDNAP A DEAD PRESIDENT
May 06, 2007; ... Stealing Lincoln's Body BY THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL HARVARD UP, pounds 16.95, 250 pp T pounds 16.95 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 It was an audacious and shocking plan: to steal Abraham Lincoln'sembalmed body from its tomb and hold it to ransom. But yet ...
CITIES RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES IS DAZZLED BY THE GLAMOUR OF BERLIN
May 06, 2007; ... Berlin in the 1920s: Art and Culture 1918-1933 BY RAINER METZGER THAMES & HUDSON, pounds 24.95, 400 pp T pounds 22.95 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Berlin began as the headquarters of Prussia's Hohenzollern rulers, and only after Bismarck ...
PROPAGANDA BLAIR WORDEN ON A DISPATCH FROM THE TIME POLITICS TURNED PRAGMATIC
May 06, 2007; ... Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes ED BY NOEL MALCOLM CLARENDON PRESS, pounds 35, 227 pp T pounds 35 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In a democracy people get the politicians they ...
FICTION THIS STORY OF THE UNEARTHING OF THE SUTTON HOO HOARD IS TO BE TREASURED, SAYS DAVID ROBSON
May 06, 2007; ... The Dig BY JOHN PRESTON VIKING, pounds 16.99, 370 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Archaeology can be a comically arcane subject. 'This could wellprove to be the largest Roman villa north of Felixstowe,' puffs aself-important twit from ...
CRIME FICTION
May 06, 2007; ... John Connolly's private investigator, Charlie Parker's new clientis the daughter of a child psychiatrist who disappeared several yearsago, amid rumours that children in his care were abused. She is beingstalked by a man who claims, despite her denials, that she knowswhere her father ...
LITERARY LIFE
May 06, 2007; ... The shortlists for this year's (women only) Orange Broadband Prizefor Fiction and its Award for New Writers have been released and theorganisers must be breathing a huge sigh of relief that ninedifferent novels (six for the main award, three for the new writersaward) are featured. Under ...
FICTION JANE SHILLING ON A POWERFUL ACCOUNT OF THE INSIDE OF AN OUTSIDER'S MIND
May 06, 2007; ... Engleby BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS HUTCHINSON, pounds 17.99, 432 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 ''My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancientuniversity,' runs the opening sentence of Sebastian Faulks's newnovel. With its ...
PAPERBACKS
May 06, 2007; ... THE LAST MUGHAL BY WILLIAM DALRYMPLE BLOOMSBURY, pounds 8.99 William Dalrymple's passion for Delhi and his use of untouchedarchive material about the siege of the city during the 1857 mutiny makes for a gripping read. With novelistic immediacy he evokes ...
PAPERBACKS
May 06, 2007; ... THE YEAR OF HENRY JAMES BY DAVID LODGE PENGUIN, pounds 9.99 He is very grown-up about it, but David Lodge's account of how hisnovel about Henry James came to be published in the same year (2004)as two others relating to the great man, one of which ...
PAPERBACKS
May 06, 2007; ... THE LONG TAIL BY CHRIS ANDERSON RANDOM HOUSE, pounds 8.99 This lively exposition of the seismic shift in economics caused bythe internet has fascinating implications. The idea of the 'longtail' (the new shape of the demand curve) is that instead of a few'hits' (books ...
PAPERBACKS
May 06, 2007; ... LAST CURTSEY BY FIONA MACCARTHY FABER, pounds 8.99 In 1958 Fiona MacCarthy, distinguished biographer of WilliamMorris and Byron, was among the last batch of debutantes to bepresented to the Queen. In elegant, wry prose, she uses the arcanerituals of the Season to ...
PAPERBACKS
May 06, 2007; ... ARLINGTON PARK BY RACHEL CUSK FABER, pounds 7.99 Imagine Desperate Housewives transposed to a soggy English suburband you will get the flavour of this likeable, Orange Prizeshortlisted novel. From housework-obsessive Amanda to super-breederSolly, ...
PAPERBACKS
May 06, 2007; ... LOST LUGGAGE PORTER BY ANDREW MARTIN FABER, pounds 7.99 Like a steam train gathering speed, railway-detective Jim Stringerhas risen from modest literary origins to a position where he has themakings of a cult character. Kicking off with a couple of ...
Gizmos of the week
May 06, 2007; ... At first glance this animated speaker system appears something ofa novelty, but turn it on and you'll be pleasantly surprised. Thesound quality is much better than your average set of speakers and the extra functions, such as the 'Funk It' button, which makes thesystem light up ...
turn on enter shikari say it loud with a sennheiser microphone
May 06, 2007; ... THERE ARE LOADS OF MICROPHONES to choose from, but I've been using the same Sennheiser E945 foryears, says Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds. I customise mine bywrapping it in coloured electrical tape and change it according to mymood, or when I can be bothered. At the minute it's ...
road test NO CAR INSPIRES AS MUCH AFFECTION, OR FRUSTRATION, AS A LAND ROVER, SAYS NEIL LYNDON
May 06, 2007; ... WE MAY BE TOUCHED BY THE ARCHAIC looks of the new Land RoverDefender, which are fundamentally the same as they have been for 50 years. For old time's sake, we can tolerate the interior, whichis as cramped as the cockpit of an armoured personnel carrier. Weresign ourselves to the ...
BRIDGE
May 06, 2007; ... AS IN LIFE, SO IN BRIDGE. Always trust your partner. Not that theyare always correct, but if they prove to be and you do not followtheir advice, woe betide you! West passed the test on our featuredhand this week and hence produced an apparently obscure play. Willyou? Dealer ...
POKER
May 06, 2007; ... WE WERE HEADS-UP AT THE end of a tournament at the Vic. The casinowas hot, the staff were bored, it was getting late, and my opponentsuggested that we do a deal. 'Let's chop,' he said. 'You want to chop?' Most tournaments are 'chopped' these days. 'Toilet breaks' at thebig ...
Tips for a top roof terrace While the Blairs squabble with the neighbours over their expansion plans, it is possible to broaden the horizons of your home with the minimum of fuss. And, as Graham Norwood writes, there's a tidy profit to be had
May 06, 2007; ... Don't tell Tony and Cherie Blair about interior designer ElizabethHiney. Britain's First Couple last week secured planning permissionto build a roof terrace on their house in London's Connaught Square.But it wasn't without complications. Neighbours were unhappy at apotential loss of ...
Part of Mary Wesley's scenery The writer was never happier than in her house by Dartmoor. Christine Webb reports as it goes on sale
May 06, 2007; ... It is like the beginning of a novel: small diagonal cracks in thecorners of a first floor sash window, overlooking Dartmoor, are themarks said to have been left by the writer Mary Wesley on ThornworthyHouse, near Chagford, her home for five years. The house's subsequent ...
The end of a wonderful innings Beech Hanger has been like a second pavilion to many of English cricket's greats. Now, as Joan Porter writes, its distinguished owners have pulled stumps and are moving on
May 06, 2007; ... Down a leafy lane near Tunbridge Wells, on the Kent and Sussexborder, is a property that will be as familiar to many cricket loversand players as the thwack of leather on willow. It was at a summer house in the eccentric, beautiful gardens ofBeech Hanger that Belinda and Ben ...
Buy-to-let still looks like a safe bet Interest rate rises could mean difficult times ahead, but as Christine Webb reports, the rewards are still there for the long-term investor
May 06, 2007; ... Thursday's expected interest rate rise, and fears that propertyprices may falter, could give ordinary home buyers the jitters. Butit may take more than that to end investors' passion for the buy-to-let market. Last year, 330,000 new buy-to-let mortgages were granted, a 48 ...
Investors' choice
May 06, 2007 ... Property: A two-bedroom town house in Bredon Court, will havestunning views of Fistral Beach (Bradleys, 01637 850500; www.bradleys-estate-agents.co.uk). Why here? Newquay has a long holiday letting season thanks to year-round surfing. Outlay: A deposit of pounds 70,500 ...
Buy to let options
May 06, 2007 ... SHORT LETS that have been popular for those on short-term, citycontracts are being trialled by Hamptons International in the countrymarket, in the hope families may want to rent a retreat, or a stop-gap for relocation. The monthly cost of such lets can be two or threetimes that of a ...
Condemned by the man from the energy police Lovely old homes may be seriously disadvantaged by efficiency assessments for the proposed home information packs. Caroline McGhie meets a couple who found the concerns are all too accurate
May 06, 2007; ... David Hitchings and his wife Gwen have lived at Knapp Farm, in thebeautiful Hampshire village of Broad Chalke, for 55 years. Theirpretty, five-bedroom thatched house has been in the family since 1887and overlooks watercress beds that their forebears have farmed forgenerations. But their ...
Can I get rid of my insulation? On The Level
May 06, 2007; ... Q. I had cavity wall insulation installed in my 1970 house threeyears ago. This winter there have been major damp problems, with wet walls,peeling wallpaper and a dreadful smell of mould. I have had to throwaway the contents of the linen cupboard as a result, and owing to achest ...
STAINED GLASS On The Level
May 06, 2007; ... Q. I have a problem with water stains on the glass in my patiodoors. Where rain has dripped down from a concrete lintel above thedoors, it appears to have picked up some sort of mineral anddeposited it on the glass. I have tried limescale remover, vinegar,brick acid and suggestions ...
BEES IN THE WALLS On The Level
May 06, 2007; ... Q. I live in a 1770 cottage constructed of old red bricks and limemortar. Over recent weeks I have noticed what I take to be masonrybees buzzing around nooks, crannies and hollows in the bricks andmortar. I read recently that the mortar joints should be raked outand refilled with hard ...
Dining in small spaces The Room Planner
May 06, 2007; ... When space is at a premium, fitting a dining table into a livingroom, kitchen (or any other available area) can seem like a tallorder. Even the smallest table can appear bulky and wasteful ofvaluable space. If budget is also a factor, calling on yourimagination and DIY skills is the best ...
The Kitchen Garden Graduate Alex Mitchell finds that only the internet can help her come to terms with being a gardening geek
May 06, 2007; ... All round the country, a tribe of people is nursing a secretdream. Whether they're running board meetings or spooning mashedapple into babies, all they can really think about is the moment, probably around 7pm, when they can indulge in their privateobsession. I talk, of course, of the ...
Chickens in the garden
May 06, 2007; ... Chickens bustling about the garden, rooting out slugs and snailsby day and retiring to a pretty hen house at night, is an idyllicvision that tempts many gardeners. In theory, hens and gardening canmake a very happy partnership, with the birds providing natural pestcontrol and a potent ...
Peaches and apricots
May 06, 2007; ... After reading most books on apricots, peaches and nectarines, youprobably wouldn't want to bother actually growing them. Many are fullof tales of woe about peach leaf curl, poor pollination and bacterialcankers. But much of this is now out of date. There have beensignificant developments ...
Sir Fred tables pounds 12bn for LaSalle Royal Bank of Scotland takes lead as battle for ABN Amro reaches acrimonious climax in Amsterdam hotel
May 06, 2007; ... ROYAL BANK of Scotland last night tabled a $24.5bn ( pounds 12bn)conditional bid for ABN Amro's LaSalle subsidiary after anacrimonious dinner took Europe's biggest banking battle to athrilling climax. With just hours to go before a deadline to submit offers forLaSalle, RBS and ...
M&B to snub Tchenguiz as it rules out conversion to Reit
May 06, 2007; ... MITCHELLS & BUTLERS, the pubs group, is set to disappoint RobertTchenguiz, the activist shareholder and property tycoon, by rulingout spinning off its pounds 5.5bn property portfolio into a realestate investment trust (Reit). The company, which owns and operates about 2,000 pubs ...
Goldman leaves Browne in cold
May 06, 2007; ... FRIENDS of Lord Browne, who resigned as chief executive of BP lastweek, fear that he will have to step down from his position atGoldman Sachs. The US investment bank has steadfastly declined to back himpublicly in the wake of revelations that Browne lied to a judge overhow he ...
Low-income savers left in lurch in new Farepak-style scandal
May 06, 2007; ... SEVEN months after the Farepak disaster, low-income savers arestill at risk of losing all their cash if their savings clubs gobust. Thousands who saved informally with Homebuy Direct, the TV rentalcompany that went bankrupt last September, have not had their cashback, it has ...
Network Rail seeks to shunt train firms aside
May 06, 2007; ... NETWORK RAIL is planning to "renationalise'' the railways bytaking control of stations and owning new rolling stock, according tosenior railway executives. Under proposals submitted to the Rail Regulator last month,Network Rail has suggested it could take control of the management ...