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Not all of Shanghai is a temple to the New Eastern Mammon. They occasionally need to relax in style. Ali Silk’s the Dhamma queen. How often do you experience a moment of total clarity and peace, a moment so divine that it feels like the planets have perfectly aligned, so that you are in…
I had been to the W Leicester Square before. In June 2011, the hotel launched its (W)riters’ Library, commissioning ten authors to choose their favourite books to populate the shelves of the hotel’s library. I was one of those authors, joining Geoff Dyer, David Nicholls and Naomi Alderman (amongst others) at the glitzy opening bash.…