Articles in 'Whisky icons'

Whisky writing's finest moment

Whisky by Aeneas MacDonald is being republished. But who was the writer shielded behind the author's pseudonym? Ian Buxton solves the mystery

It is, according to Dave Broom, “the finest whisky book ever written.” Charles MacLean nominates it as “the one whisky book I would take to a desert island.” T S Eliot presented a copy to Harold Monro of the Poetry Bookshop. Christopher Morley, a giant of pre-war American literary life, gave a “re...

By Ian Buxton from Issue 57 published on 21/07/2006