Header overlay
Everyday Drinking
Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking
  • ISBN: 9781526640154
  • Pages: 320
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Introduction: Christopher Hitchens

Everyday Drinking

The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis
From£14.99

SF Subscriber Prices

UK & Ireland £14.99
Overseas £16.99

Non-Subscriber Prices

UK & Ireland £16.99
Overseas £18.99
  • Gift wrap available
  • Pre-order
  • All prices include P&P. Overseas rates & subscriber discounts will be applied once you have selected a shipping type for each item during the checkout process.
  • Special stock order
Non Slightly Foxed title: Minimum 5-10 day delivery time.
● If you are a current subscriber to the quarterly your basket will update to show any discounts before the payment page during checkout ● If you want to subscribe now and buy books or goods at the member rate please add a subscription to your basket before adding other items

Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing.

This volume brings together the best of his three works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in DrinkEveryday Drinking and How’s Your Glass? Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis’s musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man’s Diet, The Mean Sod’s Guide and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk. This is a delightful cocktail of wry humour and distilled knowledge.



Cheers!

Sayre’s Law states: ‘In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.’ I’ve noticed this in the world of booze. Some people take the...

Read more

Comments & Reviews

Leave your review

Similar Items

Sign up to our e-newsletter

Sign up for dispatches about new issues, books and podcast episodes, highlights from the archive, events, special offers and giveaways.