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Profile signs Chiles book on how to drink less
Profile has landed The Good Drinker: How I Learned To Love Drinking Less by broadcaster and columnist Adrian Chiles.
Former editorial director Ed Lake acquired world rights from Avalon. The book is now being edited and published by editor Mark Ellingham and will be published in October 2022.
“Adrian’s book is an eye-opener. It’s for all of us – about 20% of the population – who drink more than we should, but don’t think we have a problem,” said Ellingham. “We wake up in our own beds. We don’t get into fights. But drink is all too much of a constant in our social lives. Adrian loves drinking and doesn’t want to stop. Most of us feel like that and his book will help set many of us on the path to some kind of moderation. And it’s pure Chiles: full of good sense, companionable and never remotely preachy. It is a book people will keep reading for many years.”
The Good Drinker was inspired by Chiles’ BBC2 documentary “Drinkers Like Me” in which he explored his and Britain’s drinking culture. In his book Chiles sets out around Britain to discover the pleasures of drinking in moderation. The publisher wrote: “There’s an awful lot of advice out there on how to quit booze completely. If you just want to drink a bit less, the pickings are slim. Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do drink well below the recommended weekly alcohol limit.”
Chiles commented: “This book definitely isn’t some covert guide to knocking drinking on the head completely. Neither is it a classic self-help book; it might amount to the same thing, but it’s really just a distillation, if you’ll pardon the pun, of the many things I’ve learnt about drinking less since I made a TV documentary on the subject and started writing about it. And what I’ve learnt, you’ll be shocked to read, is that it’s complicated.”
