Hampstead Theatre, Florian Zeller’s The Forest with Toby Stephens

Papier & Temperley wedding stationery Collaboration, from 12th January 2022

Florence St George & Monica Vinader launching January 18th trinket dishes

Phoebe Philo’s new brand?

Luke Edward Hall’s new brand – Chateau Orlando

If you’re dreaming about getting away from it all 1970s/2020s style, then you’ll be interested that the VW Electric Campervan is finally being released this autumn.  Time to get your name down now..

Chef Laila Gohar has turned dinner parties into high art; in 2022 she’s finally launching Gohar World, a collection of her own homewares, including plates by Laboratorio Paravicini and glasses by Ted Muehling.

The 6th Strike Book – The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith, publication date tbc

28 April, Jennifer Egan’s new book The Candy House (author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Visit from the Goon Squad)

Following her bestselling 2015 novel A Little Life, the T editor drops her long-awaited follow-up, To Paradise, on 11 January – an epic that ranges across 200 years of alternative American history between 1893 and 2093.

It’s a big year for London hotels, with Raffles set to open its first British property in the Grade II-listed Old War Office building in Whitehall and private members club and hotel The Twenty Two launching on Grosvenor Square. Meanwhile, The Dorchester will undergo a major renovation, with Martin Brudnizki reimagining the hotel bar.

Zadie Smith and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, 22 April

Ottolenghi Chelsea opening

Chelsea residents, rejoice! Yotam Ottolenghi is lighting up the Royal Borough this month with the debut of a brand new deli – his largest yet – on the picturesque Pavilion Road. This all-day spot will see visitors through from morning to early evening with breakfast treats (think French toast with berry jam and scrambled eggs with salmon and focaccia), to vibrant salads and delightful cakes (tangerine and pistachio loaf with yuzu icing, anyone?) throughout the day. There’ll be one communal seating area plus two smaller tables for locals dining in, set among informal yet elegant interiors by Alex Meitlis, including a stunning terrazzo floor by artist Ivo Bisagno.

Cedric Grolet at The Berkley patisserie

Arcade Food Hall on New Oxford Street

Lisboeta on Charlotte Street from Nuno Mendes

Nuno Mendes has been responsible for some of the most acclaimed kitchens of the past 10 years (Viajante, Chiltern Firehouse) but his new Charlotte Street restaurant feels much closer to the chef’s heart. A Lisboeta is a native of Lisbon and this love-letter to the chef’s home city will feature both tapas-like petiscos and larger dishes to share family-style, served at a ground-floor bar made from repurposed tram wood, and a first-floor dining room. A basement chef’s table, meanwhile, will serve more experimental cooking when Lisboeta opens in spring.

30 Charlotte Street, London, WC1B 4AF; lisboeta.co.uk

Lina Stores in Marylebone with an all-day restaurant and deli