thinkers

How we get to that point is complicated, both because the book is a murder mystery and because its author was one of the foremost thinkers in the field of semiotics.

It bills itself as a members' club for "like-minded creative thinkers to meet, relax, have fun and grow".

Since then, it has awarded grants to a wide range of projects dreamed up by composers and engineers, economists and political thinkers.

It came in as a refreshingly new concept: a more relaxed club for creators, thinkers and creative entrepreneurs, who might have felt like they didn't belong in the enclaves of the old aristocracy.

"But I'm not one of these ideological thinkers. I'm a pragmatist."