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by William Palmer (Robinson £20, 262pp) The size of my monthly Majestic Wine bill suggests author William Palmer is not wrong when he says that writers ‘psychologically slippery’ at the best of times are particularly prone to the joys and pitfalls of grain and grape. Booze, ‘at least at the outset, is hugely enjoyable’, Palmer says correctly. It is ‘an excellent buffer against social boredom,’ and any other sort of boredom. Drawing on the descriptions by Anthony Burgess and Kingsley Amis, In Love With Hell evokes the idyll currently denied us the traditional street-corner pub: the frosted panes of glass and etched mirrors in the Saloon Bar, the ‘constant hubbub of conversation’ and the landlord calling out the greatest six words in the English language, ‘Yes Sir, what will you have?’

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