High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories HB or PB:Hardback revealing a map of intense

revealing a map of intense artistic activity with Nunhead at its heart: from Barry MacSweeney in Dulwich to Robert Browning and William Blake in Peckham

and the activities and research projects which they suggest are imaginative and thoughtful

helped launch the Daily Worker and was one of the first editors of Left Review

searching for the geographical and the personal and discovering in the process a kind of truth and courageous expression in his work which is unique and transforming

who boldly creolised reporting styles and offered his sons an example of the possibilities of combining fiction and non-fiction

High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories HB or PB:Hardback revealing a map of intenseA collection of new short stories from contemporary writers on the pains, pleasures and horrors of drinking. Drinking stories are told by drunks, or about drunks; they are told in pubs, or set in pubs. They are stories where people drink, and stories which somehow induce a sense of drunkenness in readers and listeners. Anton Chekhov may or may not have drunkenly compared the experience of reading a short story to downing a shot of vodka, and F. Scott