The style is chatty and easy to read, with his alcohol journey split into decades, intertwined with advice he's received from others and his personal thoughts on moderation. First and foremost, alcohol is so woven into the fabric of my life, in all sorts of different ways, that it would take a great deal of unpicking. Being a B Corp means we’re committed to being a responsible business that has a positive impact for people and the planet, as we work for a world in which people drink mindfully and live well.

An extraordinary debut novella by Max Porter, loosely about a family dealing with the immediate period of grief following their mother’s death. I always assumed that my friendship group, which was 98% made up of drinkers, merely reflected society, but that’s nonsense. Join the inimitable Chiles as he sets out around Britain and plumbs his only slightly fuzzy memories of a lifetime in pubs in a quest to find the good drinker within.Reading Chiles' book mad me realise that my drinking story was remarkably similar to his own, and I guess many readers will feel the same. Perhaps he’s cut down from his past consumption but I’m not convinced the halo polishing kit needs to come out of the cupboard just yet. It turns out that all my life, without realising it, I’ve been sure to surround myself with other drinkers. So, it’s greatly to our advantage if we can find a way of making the stuff work for us, rather than the other way around. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Ever since he was a teenager, drinking was his idea of a good time – and not just his, but seemingly the whole nation’s. It may be easier to give up alcohol totally than commit yourself to a future life of drinking moderately.One line particularly stuck with me: ‘If you’re feeling thirsty, it’s almost too late: your body is already dehydrated.

I can always recite the quadratic equation formula to prove I’m sober (this was my party trick during sixth form and uni – I did a maths degree, so can be excused for being a total geek! There is some practical advice here, but it is more about presenting an alternative to giving up completely.Adrian is honest and transparent about his own alcohol journey, and the challenge in cutting down, whilst still enjoying a drink. There are loads of books about quitting the booze completely – but not many about just cutting down and not being a ‘heavy’ drinker. I've occasionally been asked why it is that I need to go for a drink before watching the Albion play. If I walk along my three-mile line of drinks I’m appalled to realise that by the one-mile mark, I’m already seeing drinks I could have managed without; drinks I could have not drunk without diminishing my enjoyment of anything one jot. I can freely admit that both of us drink far more than the recommended limits – and definitely when on holiday would be up at a level similar to Adrian’s historic levels.

Only recently someone reported, in hushed and shocked tones, that a relative going through a trauma had drunk a litre bottle of vodka – and I asked ‘over what time period? To me, and it’s just my personal opinion, he gave a list of excuses as to why he could have a drink, rather then addressing the issues as to why he shouldn’t have one. This bleak statement is especially true for many pop and rock stars, who find themselves catapulted from fame into obscurity virtually overnight, given the unforgiving vagaries of the music industry. I manage to run a successful business and a family of four, so I can’t be doing that much damage to myself.It’s a really good mix of being informative, factual – but not preachy – and most definitely not ‘it’s my way or the highway’. but as he was born with a facial abnormality he has been homeschooled by his parents his whole life. And for full disclosure, Club Soda founder Laura has also written two pages to the book on her thoughts on alcohol-free cocktails. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.