Spirits

''A handbook of classic cocktails essential to every host''s repertoire'' Vogue

Want to master the art of mixology from home?

Of all the skills you might acquire in life, learning how to make exquisite cocktails is the least likely to be a waste of your time.

In this classic guide to cocktailing, writer, columnist and founder of ''The Spirits'' newsletter - "a book club but for cocktails" - Richard Godwin offers over 200 delicious, inventive and accessible recipes.

Beautifully written, laugh-out-loud funny and full of practical good sense as well as fascinating historical snippets, this little book contains everything that an amateur needs to up their cocktailing game - and increase the sum of human happiness.

''Simple to navigate and fun to read, it''s the only book I reach for on a Friday evening. The weekend starts here.'' Felicity Cloake

''I truly love this book. No one writes about drinks like Richard Godwin - I enjoy his prose as much as anything in the glass.'' Marina Hyde

''The best, most elegant and most sparkling'' cocktail book'' Esquire