10 books about booze to get you ready for drinking on New Year’s Eve

This isn’t a collection of books about drunkenness or alcoholism, though both feature. Rather, it is a celebration of those who write well about alcoholic drinks. With drink, and especially wine, it’s easy to write in a technical way and leave out what makes alcohol interesting for most people: its intoxicating properties. From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan: the most popular books of 2018 Most drink-soaked fiction – by Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton and others – ignores the...

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