Bettany Hughes, Ander Monson and Philip Hook

Chapter 1

Introduction

Monocle’s Daniel Giacopelli attempts to forecast next week’s news with Andrew Tuck and Robert Bound.

Chapter 2

Bettany Hughes

Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes has been visiting Istanbul for the past 30 years – and the last 10 of those have been spent writing an ambitious new book about the area: ‘Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities’.

Chapter 3

Ander Monson

Music’s one-hit wonders are being celebrated in an essay-writing project pitting tunes such as Snow’s ‘Informer’ and Des'ree’s ‘You Gotta Be’ against one another in a knockout writing tournament. Ander Monson is the author behind the project known as ‘March Fadness’.

Chapter 4

Philip Hook

Sotheby’s senior director of impressionist and modern art, Philip Hook, is well placed to discuss the role of dealers in the art world. And his new book, ‘Rogues' Gallery: A History of Art and its Dealers’, does just that.