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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Bookish Wishes but as is often the case I’m going off-topic.
As it’s summer here in the Northern Hemisphere (although it hasn’t felt like it recently), my thoughts are turning to long evenings sitting in the garden sipping a glass of wine or something stronger. So here are ten books whose titles I think would make good names for cocktails, along with some tasting notes.
Links from each title will take you to my book review. Cheers!
- Thunderball (by Ian Fleming) – A vodka martini with extra kick
- Wild Dark Shore (by Charlotte McConaghy) – The Antarctic cousin of a Dark and Stormy
- Peach Blossom Spring (by Melissa Fu) – The Chinese cousin of a Bellini
- Cairo Gambit (by S. W. Perry) – Your mummy chooses the ingredients
- Green Ink (by Stephen May) – Heavy on the creme de menthe
- Gabriel’s Moon (by William Boyd) – Or perhaps you’ll be seeing stars
- Estella’s Revenge (by Barbara Havelocke) – Watch out for the pips
- Bitter Orange (by Claire Fuller) – Like an Aperol Spritz but…well, fuller flavoured
- Love and Fury (by Samantha Silva) – Starts off sweet, ends up sour
- Wrecker (by Noel O’Reilly) – Make it the last one of the evening
I had to exclude White Dog by Rupert Whewell, Black Drop by Leonora Nattrass and Hokey Pokey by Kate Mascarenhas because they are actual cocktails!
Can you think of other book titles that would make great names for cocktails?
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