I'm thrilled that my short story ‘Bones’ features in ‘High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories’ now published by Valley Press.

“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 Fitzgerald claimed that a good short story could “be written on a bottle.” Here is a collection of contemporary short stories written on and about bottles – stories about the comedies, tragedies, pleasures, pains and horrors of alcohol – all of which can be downed like (and perhaps with) a glass of vodka.

Edited with an introduction by Karen Stevens and Jonathan Taylor, contributors include some of the UK’s best short story writers: Judith Allnatt, Jenn Ashworth, Desmond Barry, Laurie Cusack, Louis de Bernières, Jane Feaver, Cathy Galvin, Alison Moore, Kate North, Bethan Roberts, Jane Roberts, Hannah Stevens, Michael Stewart, David Swann, Melanie Whipman and Sue Wilsea.”

Valley Press is an independent publishing house based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK. Since 2009, we have published more than 200 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, by authors from every corner of Yorkshire and the world.

You can grab your copy of High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories here.