Restaurant Babylon, Imogen Edwards-JonesWhat makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as the Gobi desert? Welcome to the restaurant business, where the hours are punishing, the conditions are brutal and the Chef's Special has been languishing at the back of the fridge for the past three days. This is an industry plagued with obsessives. Why else

week after week

A young man arrives in the Ukraine

Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favourite (logical) detective

and happiness

her sister and a maternal line reaching back two centuries – that urge her to succeed in their stead

But none of it would happen without the dealers-the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success

A darkly comic bedtime story for weary adults who are sick of adulting

"a tour de force

an investor

Asking if we have been building in a manner that is too self-confident or arrogant

an old friend turned new lover

Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find fortune in Hong Kong