Spectator articles from June 2007

Spectator archives from June 2007

Vlad the Blackmailer.
June 9, 2007... 'We will have to get new targets in Europe, ' Vladimir Putin said in an interview last week. 'Which weapons will be used . . . ballistic missiles, cruise missiles or some completely new systems -- that's a technical matter.' The apparent...

DIARY.
June 9, 2007... A concert, 'Raise the Roof', at St James's Church, Piccadilly, was held last month. We raised almost [pounds sterling]30,000 with a musical evening and readings by Diana Rigg, Anthony Andrews, Edward Fox and John Standing. Edward read a piece...

The next general election will be won and lost on the internet.
June 9, 2007... Most elections produce a defining campaign event. In 1979 it was Margaret Thatcher's enlistment of Saatchi & Saatchi and the 'Labour Isn't Working' posters. In 1987 it was the party political broadcast that became known as 'Kinnock The Movie'....

DIARY OF A NOTTING HILL NOBODY.(Diary entry)
June 9, 2007... MONDAY I wish everyone would just calm down. It's like the inside of Mr Willetts's smaller brain (the one he used for grammar schools) around here. Don't see why everyone is hysterical just because we are getting a new Director of Comms....

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES.
June 9, 2007... It is highly likely that Tony Blair will become a Roman Catholic after he leaves office. He regularly attends a Catholic Mass rather than Anglican services -- nowadays, because of security problems, usually in No. 10 Downing Street or at...

On the streets and the hustings, hatred of the rich is back in fashion.
June 9, 2007... One of the little-remarked side effects of 9/11 was the eclipse of the anti-globalisation movement. It is not easy to remember that in the summer of 2001, the year in which protestor Carlo Giuliani died during rioting at the G8 summit in Genoa,...

The Tories should be backing Hillary Clinton.
June 9, 2007... The Blair-Bush partnership, so awkward for the Labour party, has come to an end and everyone is speculating about how Gordon Brown will recalibrate the Special Relationship. But what about the Tories? Marginalised for years by Tony Blair's...

Peel, not Disraeli, is the true model for Cameron.(Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli and David Cameron)
June 9, 2007... The balance between style and substance varies sharply with each Prime Minister. In a few weeks, we will see yet another swing of the pendulum. But never has the contrast been greater than in Queen Victoria's reign. Disraeli was the man...

Go west to discover the true America.(Essay)
June 9, 2007... 'Go West, young man, go West, ' newspaper editor Horace Greeley advised ambitious 19th-century Americans as the nation pursued its Manifest Destiny. Well, it might have been Greeley, or perhaps John Babson Lane Soule, editor of the Terre Haute...

Farewell to clubland: the England of rakes is gone.(Essay)
June 9, 2007... Palermo In the disheartening post a friend has brought to the tranquillity of Sicily from the wilds of London I see that my name has been placed on the Front Morning Room mantelpiece, in accordance with Rule 15 of our Club, as my annual...

You get the Olympic logo you deserve: in our case, one I could draw on a beermat.
June 9, 2007... 'We're fearless. We challenge everything, especially ourselves. We seek the truth relentlessly. We believe in we not me. And we mean it.' Wolff-Olins mission statement There's been quite a fuss about the official new logo for the 2012...

Malan is an anti-racist.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
June 9, 2007... Sir: As a South African liberal, I regard both Rian Malan and Ken Owen with the highest affection and respect. However, Owen is completely wrong and Malan completely right in the matter of the South African government's approach to Robert...

Liddle's hypocrisy.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
June 9, 2007... Sir: I write as an inmate of Rampton from March 1993 to October 2004, and can only conclude that Rod Liddle's likening of John Sweeney losing his rag at a Scientologist (Liddle Britain, 19 May) to an inmate at Rampton's reaction to having his...

Dreaming of BR.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
June 9, 2007... Sir: Matthew Parris (Another voice, 26 May) asserts that 'few of us would now dream of going back to British Rail'. Many of us dream of little else. Those among us, for example, who are used to standing for our entire journey every day, whose...

Powell's poll.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
June 9, 2007... Sir: I was glad to read Allan Massie citing Anthony Powell (Life and letters, 26 May) as evidence that novel-writing is supposed to be painstaking. The late B.A. Young, for many years an assistant editor at Punch, once told me that when Powell...

The wrong bird.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
June 9, 2007... Sir: According to Cressida Connolly, reviewing Rosie Boycott's Our Farm (Books, 26 May), Mistress Boycott is interested in everything, including why robins' eggs are blue. There are only two possible answers to this question: neither lady...

Draining the meters.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
June 9, 2007... Sir: Please tell Theodore Dalrymple (Global warning, 2 June) that councils could easily provide car-park meters that give change. The trouble is each machine would need a float of [pounds sterling]500 in small change, which would be routinely...

Heaven is a day spent sorting a cow-box full of rubbish at a Derbyshire recycling centre.
June 9, 2007... Rubbish has always fired my imagination and set my pulse racing. I don't know why; it may be an inherited trait. My late father used to rifle through our bins lest anything useful had been thrown away, and in unhappier circumstances might in...

Women and money make a perfect match.
June 9, 2007... The City summer party season has begun. I kicked it off with a fifthanniversary party for Neptune Investment Management last Thursday. I like Neptune: they've got good funds and a good business, and offering drinks after hours at the Wallace...

An investor's life on Mars.
June 9, 2007... A Martian called Zog visits Earth to see what it can offer in the way of the latest investment funds. He meets an independent financial adviser called Charlie who asks him what kind of investment he's looking for. 'I've been reading about...

Remember the wisdom of Keynes and Mark Twain.
June 9, 2007... John Maynard Keynes said that picking shares was like a beauty contest where 'it's important to choose not who you think is the prettiest girl, but who the judges will think is the prettiest girl'. One of the key lessons I've learnt over the...

Sick of rotten service? See it as a Buy signal.
June 9, 2007... 'The customer is always right, ' said the 19th-century American retail pioneer Marshall Field -- and shoppers at his Chicago store became so enamoured of their omnipotence, and of his assistants' assistance, that they spent enough to make him...

Own your share of British business.
June 9, 2007... Business is hot: Martha Lane Fox makes it on to the front pages by joining the Marks & Spencer board, grumpy Sir Alan Sugar's The Apprentice is prime-time television, Sir Philip Green of Debenhams graces the celebrity columns with or without...

An avalanche waiting to happen.
June 9, 2007... Waiting for the bursting of the Chinese share bubble is like waiting for an avalanche. You can hear the rumbling but you have no idea when and where it will strike. Among the most bemused of those waiting to find out are the Chinese...

Can Patak's fiery flavour survive in ABF's big corporate cooking pot?(Associated British Foods )
June 9, 2007... I have long been a fan of Patak's, the Lancashire-based Indian sauce-andpickle empire that was acquired last week by Associated British Foods for an undisclosed price thought to be somewhere north of [pounds sterling]100 million. The business...

Theninth portrait.(Courage: Eight Portraits)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... COURAGE : EIGHT PORTRAITS by Gordon Brown Bloomsbury, [pounds sterling]16.99, pp. 244, ISBN 9780747565321 What happens when the big clunking fist picks up the historian's pen? Gordon Brown is by no means the first Prime Minister-inWaiting...

The ascent from Boots library.(The Daphne Dumaurier Companion)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... THE DAPHNE DUMAURIER COMPANION edited by Helen Taylor Virago, [pounds sterling]9.99, pp. 424, ISBN 9781844082353 There was a time not so very long ago when a sustained festschriftstyle tribute to Daphne du Maurier from her literary...

A cut and dried case?(Death Under the Dryer)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... DEATH UNDER THE DRYER by Simon Brett Macmillan, [pounds sterling]16.99, pp. 300, ISBN 9781405041386 . [pounds sterling]13.59 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 The modern crime novel tends to be a serious matter involving body...

Better than chocolate.(Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved My Life (Then Ruined It))(Book review)
June 9, 2007... FATTY BATTER : HOW CRICKET SAVED MY LIFE (THEN RUINED IT)by Michael Simkins Ebury Press, [pounds sterling]10.99, pp. 314, ISBN 9780091901509 . [pounds sterling]8.79 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Surely the most sought...

The great negotiator.(The Prince)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... THE PRINCE by William Simpson Harper Collins, [pounds sterling]19.99, pp. 480, ISBN 9780060899868 . [pounds sterling]15.99 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Talleyrand of our age,...

Simplicity and strength.(E. McKnight Kauffer: Design)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER : DESIGN by Brian Webb & Peyton Skipwith Antique Collectors' Club, [pounds sterling]12.50, pp. 96, ISBN 9781851495207 . [pounds sterling]10 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Some of the best and most...

Lost and found.(A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... A LONG WAY GONE : MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER by Ishmael Beah Fourth Estate, [pounds sterling]14.99, pp. 240, ISBN 9780007247080 . [pounds sterling]11.99 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 When Starbucks in the United States...

Coping with a continent.(The Pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648-1815)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... THE PURSUIT OF GLORY : EUROPE , 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning Allen Lane, [pounds sterling]30, pp. 707, ISBN 9780713990974 . [pounds sterling]24 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Has there ever been a better time to be alive than...

A big talent spotted.(L.A. Mirage)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... L. A. MIRAGE by Anne Lambton Timewell, [pounds sterling]14.99, pp. 220, ISBN 9781857252200 . [pounds sterling]11.99 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 In the late 1960s I was reviewing books in the Sunday Times alongside the...

The charnel house of liberty.(Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons)(Book review)
June 9, 2007... BAD MEN : GUANTANAMO BAY AND THE SECRET PRISONS by Clive Stafford Smith Weidenfeld, [pounds sterling]16.99, pp. 307, ISBN 9780297852216 . [pounds sterling]13.59 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Ever since I began to serve...

Paradise before the guns opened fire.
June 9, 2007... Reviewing recently a new English version of Alain-Fournier's 1913 novel Le Grand Meaulnes, I was happy and relieved to find that it retains its magic. It has entranced generations of adolescents, not all of them French, but I had wondered if it...

Thrilling stuff.
June 9, 2007... This season's they-don't-make'em-like-that-any-more offering at the Old Vic is Gaslight. The chief reason for going to see it is that it stars the talented young actress Rosamund Pike. Time spent gazing at the astoundingly beautiful Miss...

Lust for life.
June 9, 2007... Gillian Ayres: Paintings and Works on Paper 2005-7 Alan Cristea Gallery, 31 Cork Street, London W1, until 16 June In Celebration of David Bomberg Daniel Katz Ltd, 13 Old Bond Street, London W1, until 13 July David Bomberg: Paintings...

Sound and vision.(Royal Festival Hall )
June 9, 2007... The Royal Festival Hall reopens next week after two years of renovation costing [pounds sterling]111 million, and already the outlook looks promising. It may be a year or so before musicians and audiences get the hang of the hall's new acoustic...

Telly addict.(Television)
June 9, 2007... Until recently I was one of those insufferable prigs who proudly announces, 'Oh, I never watch television, it's all rubbish these days.' But there was little virtue in my self-restraint, and I had no idea whether there was anything worth...

ARTS.(Brief article)
June 9, 2007... Eileen Cooper (born 1953), stylish expert at picturing women, is on a new tack in Deeper Water (Art First, 9 Cork Street, London W1, until 28 June). Tattoos predominate, appearing and disappearing beneath clothes, a secret signature or public...

Exalted by Beethoven.(Fidelio)(Opera review)
June 9, 2007... Fidelio Royal Opera Fidelio is so full of wonderful music, and its subject matter is so stirring and so perennially relevant, that it should be a frequent feature of any opera house's repertoire. In fact it is rather rare, and this new...

Provoked and dazzled.(dance reviews)(Dance review)
June 9, 2007... Triple Bill Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House Phoenix Dance Theatre Sadler's Wells Theatre Stylistic accuracy is one of the most problematic aspects of restaging dance works. 'Style' is a fluidly ambiguous notion encompassing a multitude of...

McKellen's masterly Lear.(Ian McKellen as King Lear)(Theater review)
June 9, 2007... King Lear The Seagull Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The best way to get serious press coverage for your big show is to provoke the hacks by shutting them out from the first night. It's a high-risk strategy but in the case of the...

Same old story.(The Chumscrubber )(Movie review)
June 9, 2007... The Chumscrubber 15, nationwide I thought I'd go and see Ocean's 13, as it is the biggest film this week, but then changed my mind. It's not that I don't care for enormous movies about casino heists -- I care very, very deeply about casino...

Tasteless memorial.(television programs review)(Television program review)
June 9, 2007... Channel 4's Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel (Wednesday) was, as promised, pretty tasteless stuff, though not for the reasons we were told. There are those who still believe the princess's death was not an accident, and that the royal family,...

Death and the mistress.(Radio show "The Archers")(Radio program review)
June 9, 2007... Just as Damien Hirst last week launched his diamond-encrusted human skull on to the unsuspecting world he was upstaged by that other icon of British culture, The Archers. Hirst was presumably intending to bring death centre-stage just like the...

Riding high.
June 9, 2007... Epsom last weekend was simply awash with emotion. Show me the racing man who didn't have a tear in his eye when Henry Cecil marched back to the top of his profession with Light Shift's victory in the Oaks -- his eighth victory in the Fillies'...

'It's all Greek to me'.
June 9, 2007... Kent To this beautiful New England village near the New York-Connecticut border, home to the great designer Oscar de la Renta and his wife Annette, both very old friends of mine. Two even older friends, Reinaldo and Carolina Herrera, were...

Out of step.
June 9, 2007... The first day of June. A golden evening. I've been shopping and bought myself a pair of flip-flops. Fifty quid for two footprint shapes of recycled rubber, two straps and two designer labels. Driving home, I decide to call in at the pub for...

Linseed oil and cut grass.
June 9, 2007... I played my youthful cricket on wickets which were cut into steeply sloping pitches. Cover drives which should have raced over the outfield either thumped into the hillside or sailed out into space, and batsmen, who believed that they had...

RESTAURANTS.
June 9, 2007... This is about a mother who takes her son out for dinner for his 15th birthday. Normally the son would not agree to go out for dinner with his mother. Normally the son treats his mother as something of an embarrassment, as well as a...

Severing all ties.(Neckties)
June 9, 2007... Reading Blair's political obituaries, the most disheartening theme to me was the loss of innocence which the man has ushered in. In ten short years, he created a professional, continental-style 'political class' and, almost simultaneously, did...

A little of what you fancy.
June 9, 2007... There are plenty of things to thank the Lord for. My children's health. Their father's. Inshallah, mazeltov, my own. Then there is the fact that I am not a friend of Elton John's. Because if I were a friend of Elton John's, I'd have to...

Bound together.
June 9, 2007... Witnessing me overcome my fear of flying on a recent trip to Corfu must have given the members of my book club a long overdue dose of schadenfreude. Ten years ago, when we first formed our monthly meetings, I made a vapid, sexist remark that...

HOTEL AND VILLA OF THE WEEK.(Directory)(Brief article)
June 9, 2007... CAVALIERI HOTEL Corfu Town, Corfu, Greece Tel. +44 20 7384 5895 www. cvtravel. co. uk KATAVOLOS HOUSE Nissaki, Corfu, Greece Tel. +44 20 7384 5895 www. cvtravel. co. uk

SPECTATOR SPORT.
June 9, 2007... I was sorry to miss last week's ghostbusting gig at the Hay-on-Wye festival when David Beckham's surrogate-scribbler, actor-writer Tom Watt, joined two mates of mine, Paul Hayward (Sir Bobby Robson, Michael Owen) and Peter Burden...

Are we bothered?(Tony Blair; media)
June 16, 2007... In describing his relationship with the press, Thomas Jefferson said that he had been 'used as the property of the newspapers, a fair mark for every man's dirt'. Yet the third President of the United States was also a zealous champion of press...

DIARY.(books; biographies)
June 16, 2007... Global publishing is a confusing business. Because my book on Princess Diana is being published simultaneously in America, England and Germany (the French, in their languid way, are doing it in September, apres la rentree), the challenge to the...

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES.(Editorial)
June 16, 2007... Anyone who believes British Muslim hostility to the war in Iraq is the big motivator of terrorism should read the fascinating cover piece by Shiv Malik in the latest edition of Prospect. Investigating the background of the 7 July London...

DIARY OF A NOTTING HILL NOBODY.
June 16, 2007... MONDAY Disaster. Dave's big policy announcement on illegal logging totally ruined by rogue spelling error and I'm to blame. Can't believe I could be so stupid as to add a letter 'b' by mistake. Nigel says I must have done it on purpose....

The final battle of the Blair - Brown war will be fought in Brussels.(Tony Blair; Gordon Brown)
June 16, 2007... For what must surely be the last time, war has broken out between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The surreal calm of the handover period has been fractured by a return to the bitterness, acrimony and threats that have been the dominant...

What the man from Hamas told me over tea.(Dr. Ghazi Hamad)(Interview)
June 16, 2007... It's a sunny afternoon in London, and I am having tea with Hamas. Or rather, I am having tea with Dr Ghazi Hamad, official spokesman for the Palestinian National Authority and the man tipped to be the new Interior Minister. Dressed in a...

Ancient & modern.(John Prescott)
June 16, 2007... John Prescott probably thought he was being immensely clever and original in finding an excuse to spend a couple of weeks in the Caribbean doing almost nothing at the tax-payers' considerable expense. But, as usual, his behaviour is typical of...

My von Trott was fiction, but not to his lover.(The Song Before It Is Sung, Adam von Trott Zu Solz)
June 16, 2007... Much against my will, I have found myself caught up in a long-running dispute about the German Rhodes scholar Adam von Trott Zu Solz. I received a letter from his nephew describing my novel, The Song Before It Is Sung, as a disgrace and...

When Harry met silly: the case against wigs in court.
June 16, 2007... We don't take stagecoaches to Basingstoke any more -- looking at an old 1830 London-Exeter stagecoach schedule, it took six and a quarter hours to get there. The train takes 40 minutes today. There isn't much point in holding on to slave...

Modern America has warriors, not soldiers.
June 16, 2007... 'The moral elements, ' said Clausewitz, 'are among the most important in war.' This was never more true than it is today. In the decisive battle for hearts and minds, the moral image an army projects is as powerful as, if not more powerful...

GLOBAL WARNING.(Essay)
June 16, 2007... Iwas sitting in a train recently, wondering why everyone's mobile telephone conversations, except my own, were so utterly banal, when a young black man sitting two rows behind me answered the irritating wail of his instrument of the devil. He...

I assume Brown will be sending flowers to Andrew Gilligan and Greg Dyke.(Gordon Brown )
June 16, 2007... At last: an admission from a senior member of the government that it lied through its teeth and misled the public in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, back in the early spring of 2003. Or at least that's how I read Gordon Brown's comments...

Blair's conscience.(Tony Blair)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
June 16, 2007... Sir: Charles Moore may be correct that Mr Blair wishes to become a Catholic on relinquishing office (The Spectator's Notes, 9 June). Whether this is appropriate or not is another matter. Throughout his time in Parliament Mr Blair has failed...

Money bags.
June 16, 2007... Sir: In his article 'Hatred of the rich is back in fashion' (9 June) Ross Clark wondered 'What about the people who sew the [pounds sterling]10,000 handbags together -- surely the more that the wealthy spend on their handbags, the more they...

Miliband mere.(Ed and David Milliband; Marian Kozak)(Brief article)
June 16, 2007... Sir: I'm surprised that Mary Wakefield ('The charm of Ed Miliband', 2 June) inquired only after Miliband pere and not once about Miliband mere, a formidable woman in her own right. Ed's father Ralph was my brilliant and much-loved LSE tutor in...

Gaslight gaffe.(theater)(Brief article)
June 16, 2007... Sir: Robert Gore-Langton's piece 'Thrilling Stuff' (Arts, 7 June) on the revival of Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight at the Old Vic stated: 'Hamilton's biographer, Nigel Jones, has a low regard for Gaslight and doesn't even mention in his book that...

How to befriend robins.(The Charm of Birds)(Brief article)
June 16, 2007... Sir: I was delighted to read Paul Johnson's warm reference to my father David Lack and his two robin books, the successful Life of the Robin, and the anthology, Robin Redbreast (And another thing, 26 May). Incidentally, Lord Grey did not...

Talk the TalkTalk.(customer service)(Brief article)
June 16, 2007... Sir: Matthew Vincent's analysis 'Sick of rotten service?' (Business, 9 June) does not tell the whole story. Carphone Warehouse's share price may have performed very well over the last five years, with a reputation for good customer service a...

Memories are made of this.
June 16, 2007... Sir: Charles Moore mentioned the benefits of Bromo last week (The Spectator's Notes, 9 June). Schoolchildren also found it useful in memorising the victories of Marlborough: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenardie, Malplaquet. E. Winter Salisbury,...

The ultimate missile defence is that most Russians live in Britain now.
June 16, 2007... So. Finally, it is all kicking off. In a silo poking somewhere from the Siberian tundra, a line of men (if all those Tom Clancy films are to be believed) are preparing to turn a line of keys. 'Missile retargeting, ' growls the Commanding...

How cyber-crime became a multi-billion-pound industry.
June 16, 2007... Imagine you're the finance director of a quoted financial services company. You receive an anonymous invitation to a 'Party of a Lifetime' in the form of a USB memory stick. Hopeful of some welcome distraction, you plug it into your office...

The urge to be Sir Alan's apprentice.(Alan Sugar)
June 16, 2007... When Sir Alan Sugar set up Amstrad selling car aerials nearly 40 years ago there was no television programme to encourage budding entrepreneurs. Britain was locked in an era of corporatism in which the conventional aspiration was to work for a...

A foodie's paradise, but at premium prices.(Whole Foods Market)
June 16, 2007... Two years ago the term 'bifurcation' entered the bloody battlefield that is food retailing in the United Kingdom. Experts said the market was splitting between those at the top charging premium prices for premium tucker and those fighting on...

Golf and global brands signal rising prospects for the Himalayan kingdom.
June 16, 2007... The hills are alive with the sound of golf balls. The hills in question are the highest in the world: the Himalayas. And golf is the new buzzword in Nepal. A global sport, golf attracts high-net-worth tourists, especially from South Korea and...

The revenge of the Dragon Lady's daughter.(book)(The Mistress's Daughter)(Book review)
June 16, 2007... THE MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER by A. M. Homes Granta, [pounds sterling]12.99, pp. 238, ISBN9781862079304 . [pounds sterling]10.39 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 There is a message on my answering machine at home in New York ---...

Theodd couple.(book)(A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton)(Hillary Clinton: The Biography)(Book review)
June 16, 2007... A WOMAN IN CHARGE : THE LIFE OF HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON by Carl Bernstein Hutchinson, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 628, ISBN 978091920784 . [pounds sterling]20 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 HILLARY CLINTON : THE BIOGRAPHY by...

The picnic is over.(book)(In Bear Country: A Global Journey in Vanishing Wilderness)(Book review)
June 16, 2007... IN BEAR COUNTRY : A GLOBAL JOURNEY IN VANISHING WILDERNESS by Brian Payton Old Street Publishing, [pounds sterling]8.99, pp. 320, ISBN 9781905847 . [pounds sterling]7.19 (plus [pounds sterling]2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Eight species of bear...