High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories HB or PB:Hardback Although their relationship was one

Although their relationship was one of the most important in post-war public life

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

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

Rachael Boast

For the past number of years he has directed Féile na Bealtaine

High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories HB or PB:Hardback Although their relationship was oneA 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