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The Pub
  • Published: 14 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529935684
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00

The Pub

Wit, wisdom & weirdness on Britain’s best-loved establishment

  • The Fence
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14 Aug 2025
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14 Sept 2025
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The perfect pub in book form - jokes, pub bingo, tall tales, the best pubs, the worst pubs and everything in between.

'A brilliant hymn to the holy sainted pub' Marina O'Loughlin

Would Queen Victoria have been good value over a pint? Where can you find the most northerly pub in the UK? What is good pub etiquette and do you follow it?

This isn’t just a book full of Britain’s best pubs, although rest assured, we have plenty of them. Rather, this is a book that is as much for the pub as about the pub – a collection of ale-sodden stories from every corner of the UK, from the country’s classiest pub urinals, to the Wetherspoons inside a service station just off the M40.

With tales and trivia from Lanarkshire to the Lizard, this is a love letter to the great British pub, in all its faded and eccentric glory.

Compiled by The Fence, contributors include Tom Parker Bowles, Charlotte Ivers, William Hanson, Jimmy Mcintosh, John Banville and Katy Hessel.
  • Published: 14 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529935684
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for The Pub

'A brilliant hymn to the holy sainted pub.'

Marina O'Loughlin

'In its good-natured eclecticism, The Pub winks at all of us pub-lovers, full of the promise of fun.

John Mitchinson, The Idler

'The Pub is exactly the sort of irreverent, indispensable guide the modern pubgoer needs. Personally, I never leave the house without a copy.'

Matthew Curtis, Pellicle magazine
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