Reading the label on the back of the bottle doesn't count Baggy.

Iain Banks did manage to write a very readable piece of non-fiction about a tour of Scotland's whisky producing regions. The rest of it is best left on the shelf though.

I do think Ian McEwan is enormously overrated. So flat and grey and lacking in entertainment value, not to mention substance.

Patrick Hamilton - now there's a chap who wrote magnificently well about drinking. And desperate lives come to that.