Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99605 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
Charlotte Williamson and Maggie Davis, lifestyle journalists and enthusiastic shoppers, bring their insider know-how to this indispensable guide to shopping. Following on from the best-selling 2007 edition, this new edition for 2008 has been updated to include over 50 of the very latest covetable items.Covering everything from cashmere to chandeliers, spices to scooters, teapots to tiles, and with a distinctly global and fairtrade flavour, this book is a collection of the ultimate in food, clothes, furniture and fun, and is packed with tips from specialist buyers and those in-the-know.With side panels discussing topics as diverse as the items every gentleman should have in his bathroom closet, how to haggle at a Morrocan souk and globetrotting gem shopping, this book is a must for discerning shoppers of all tastes and budgets.

Customer Reviews

Where are my Manolos?
I'm not entirely sure why people feel the need to write ridiculous reviews about this book but hey - whatever floats your boat!

I have the first edition of this book and from a fashionistas point of view - it's a good reference for items of designer style and quality. Of course (unless you're a WAG or a lotto winner), you'd be barking to buy everything noted in here....but it's a nice book to dip in and out of for inspiration and even some aspiration (I've been after a Cartier tank watch for years!)

The items in this book are things that are designed to last...a more expensive initial purchase but over time the price equates itself....just think how many Bic pens you go through when you could have one Mont Blanc that will last forever!

I'll be buyinbg this edition to see what the extra 50 items are!

Ignore The Other Idiotic Reviews...
...they obviously care little for fashion or style. Absolutely no need to trash the book just because you are not interested in its content. Why did they buy it then, I must ask?!

My life is now complete
I used to lie awake at night wondering what I was missing - why was my life not gorgeous and glamourous like Sex and the City? Why did I always turn up at dinner parties in the wrong shoes and why oh God why did my neighbours smirk at my rugs? Then I stumbled accross this gem of a book and it became clear! Oh stupid, stupid me. How could I live a fulfilled life without the right candles? A veil was removed from my eyes and a weight from my shoulders. I marched right to the correct shops with my plastic a-flexing. I followed the list to the letter, no short cuts here. How could I live the life I was missing without having the exact model number in the right shade of red? It was a wonderful feeling standing in the queue while everyone else bought the same item. We compared notes on why the habitat sofa deserved a place in each of our homes and suddenly I felt whole. This book solved all my problems ever and I urge, I really do, everyone else to buy this book. After all, when everyone wears the same lipstick and carries it in the same bag the world will live as one.