High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories Mark Granier

High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories Mark GranierA 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

As the snow begins to fall the two women become entangled in a claustrophobic relationship

Ibrahim Farghali and Nasrin Trabulsi

such as the political defeat of 18 April 1948

Featuring interviews with 58 of the best-known people from Scotland – from stars of stage and screen and leading musicians to sporting heroes of yesterday and today

He left his home

a Carib woman who takes him as

tea-breaks and sickies

his father climbed onto a bridge high above four lanes of traffic

Viguls' three collections to date have garnered several national prizes

Banipal 35 presents ten talented authors who live in the Netherlands and Belgium and write in Dutch

Michel Beard and Adnan Haydar

with appreciation by Tahar Bekri