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The Beer & Book Club is back!
Too good to leave on the shelf. After a year-long hiatus, Verdant and White Rabbit Books are officially bringing back the Beer & Book Club, your bi-monthly dose of fresh independent beer and literature.
Every two months, subscribers will receive six beers, alongside a hand-picked White Rabbit Books title. To make this relaunch even more special, we’ll ship only the newest books, fresh off the press, and we'll take the conversation beyond the screen: expect live in-person events, online Q&As with authors and brewers, and dedicated book club episodes landing on Brewing Folk radio.
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Our second box is available now and will start shipping in early November, featuring Michael Smith's book: Stranger on the Shore.
In Strangers on the Shore, Michael Smith - author of cult classic The Giro Playboy, which captured the arty demi-monde of Shoreditch gentrifying into a hipster hellscape - stays one step ahead of the property developers as he stumbles through the uncanny psychic landscape of Hastings, in an astonishing work of autofiction that explores the experience of becoming a father and the disarming grief of leaving your youth and its dreams behind.
The flâneuring Michael at the centre of the book has moved down to the 'dogshit capital of the South Coast,' started a family and opened a bar. He finds himself pouring wine in a 'drinking town with a fishing problem,' philosophising, procrastinating, morbidly obsessed with Aleister Crowley, who died in poverty in a BnB in this shabby seaside resort full of artistes and occult morris dancers.
A book about what it is like to live on the margins, sliding into a precarious middle age in turbulent times, both giving up and starting a-new, Strangers on the Shore is deeply and unashamedly romantic, whilst also angry about the dystopian Britain we've sleepwalked into. Revered by Andrew Weatherall as 'the acid house Montaigne' and The Idler as 'Rimbauld on the dole,' Michael Smith has written an endlessly moving book of transcendent beauty about fathers and songs and the pleasures of an introspective life.
Secure your box as a one-off purchase or sign up for a subscription today!
**This subscription will ship EARLY NOVEMBER**
This pack contains:
1x Michael Smith - Stranger on the Shore book.
1x Lightbulb 4.5% ABV Extra Pale Ale
1 x People Money Space Time 3.4% ABV Session IPA
1 x Sundialer 5% ABV Pale Ale
1 x special release Pale Ale
1 x special release IPA
1 x special release DIPA
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