{"title":"Books by Adrian Gill","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781780226439","title":"Pour Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An intense, succulent read that's intermittently dazzling' \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chilling, exquisitely moving' \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A superb memoir - and one of the best books on addiction I have ever read' \u003ci\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk. He recalls the lost days, lost friends, failed marriages ... 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Every weekend he entertained readers of the \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. Even those who objected to his opinions agree: his writing is hopelessly, painfully funny. He was one of a tiny band of must-read journalists and it was always a disappointment when the words 'A.A. Gill is away' appeared at the foot of his column. This book is the fruit of those absences: twenty-five long travel pieces that belie his reputation as a mere style-journalist and master of vitriol: this is travel writing of the highest quality and ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294705004917,"sku":"9780753816813","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780753816813_b670a749-3ca1-4ba9-8a9b-3ba7ba88867f.jpg?v=1786016486"},{"product_id":"9780753829165","title":"The Golden Door","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBritain's most readable journalist takes on his biggest challenge - America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere were you when John F. Kennedy was shot?  Today the answer more often than not is going to be 'not born'.  You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963. A generation later, you could ask the same question about the World Trade Centre. Where were you when the plane hit the twin towers on 11 September 2001?  But this book is about what happened between those two moments. The world's perception of America changed between those two waves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA.A. Gill's book is about the things he's always found admirable and optimistic about the United States and its citizens. Two of the happiest times of his life were spent living in New York and the mountains of Kentucky. The contrast between the two couldn't have been more complicated and different. The America he found was contradictory and elusive, not the simpletons' place he'd been led to believe. It was still a list of raw ingredients rather than the old stew of Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow A.A. Gill takes another look at the America he knew in the 1970s, a place that seemed to hold promise, practical energy and a plan for the future. How did it become the political magnetic north, against which the liberal intellectuals from the rest of the world set their opinions? Why is it so easily mocked, so comprehensively blamed, so thoughtlessly hated?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a collection of linked essays based around places that will open up truths and mythologies about America and Americans. The theme of his journey will be searching for 'the home of'. Every other small town in America boasts on its Welcome sign that it is the home of something or other: a mountain, a mine, peaches, spotted pigs, a president, the world's biggest ball of string, barbecues, the deepest hole. So that's where A.A. 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