Welcome to Görlitz, the perfect German town that’s a movie star in its own right

The Grand Budapest Hotel has been nominated for nine Oscars – if only there was one for ‘best location’ so the eastern German town where it was filmed could win

Mobile trends for 2015

From startups taking on giants to mobilising revenue-generating processes, our panel predicts the talking points for next year

A brief history of Guerlain

This former family business is now in the hands of a multinational, but some of the original 19th-century products are still available, says Anna Chesters

James Patterson’s Private Vegas: a $300,000 self-destructing book for the superfan

A special edition of the crime-fiction king’s new novel will include a five-course dinner with the author, gold binoculars – and a very limited time to read it