This week Siobhan has picked her favourite cocktail, The White Lady...

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald is Fitzgerald's second novel, the precursor to the brilliant The Great Gatsby.  Set in the 1920s (the book was published in 1922), the first part of the book relates the initial meeting and courtship of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert...

This is Sacred's take on this classic cocktail that seems so fitting right now!

Harry Craddock, author of the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book, observed of a drink of this nature that "Four taken in quick succession will un-revive the corpse again" and thus the cocktail was named. 

This is a compelling, visceral account of Marie, a young, single-mother, who waits tables in a series of Texas restaurants. When she wants to be, she is good at her job and works hard - she takes time to study the wines for the new menu - but she is also hell-bent on a path of self-destruction.

Ian's favourite classic cocktail is the Martinez, so this week's cocktail is just that!

Many people are familiar with the film Breakfast at Tiffany's which launched Audrey Hepburn, who plays Holly Golightly, into a style icon for generations to come. However, not so many are acquainted with the slim novella by Truman Capote on which the screen adaptation is based. In both versions, the Martinis flow freely...

The Slaves of Solitude, which was written in 1947, has, as its might title suggest, a certain resonance with current events.

Hilary loves a gimlet, so we thought we would share this very simple classic cocktail to try at home.

The Long Goodbye  is considered by many to be Raymond Chandler's finest novel. Those who are not familiar with his work might assume...

I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward is an account of an impoverished middle-class family living in north London in the 1970s. However, this is not a whimsical story of make-do-and-mend and or putting on a brave face for the neighbours...

Set in South London between 23 December 1938 and the height of the Blitz in Christmas 1940, London Belongs to Me follows the lives of the inhabitants of a south London boarding house and is packed with memorable period detail

Gin is not only delicious to drink, it is complex and interesting, rich in culture and history. Literature is littered with references to gin, from Scott Fitzgerald to Raymond Chandler to Patrick Hamilton - and there is no tonic quite like reading to offer some respite from these strange and unpredictable times. 

With that in mind, over the coming weeks we will be sharing some of our favourite books with you, all of which will have an association with our favourite tipples. 

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