Best Australian Drinking Stories cover art

Best Australian Drinking Stories

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Best Australian Drinking Stories

By: Jim Haynes
Narrated by: Jim Haynes
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £22.99

Buy Now for £22.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

The story of Australia's almost-250-year love affair with alcohol told with yarns, verse, anecdotes and surprising historical narratives.

'It seemed like a good idea…at the time.' - the lament of many a morning after.

Rum, beer, scotch, wine, beer and more beer. For nearly 250 years Australian history has been punctuated with stories of booze and boozing. From Cook's voyages and the First Fleet to the Rum Rebellion, the mutiny of the 99th Regiment, the soldiers' riot of 1916, six o'clock closing and beyond, we've been a nation that likes a drink.

With the eye of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes has collected the best yarns, verses, stories and anecdotes of our boozy history. He uncovers the good and the bad of our national character and its relationship with grog. He celebrates the social gift of alcohol and riotous moments of mateship and camaraderie, but he also offers salutary tales of its consequences - the hangovers, the suffering, the recriminations and the grave occasions subverted by drink.

Amusing, wry, tragic and surprising, Best Australian Drinking Stories asks you to grab a glass of your favourite beverage, get comfy and enjoy this fascinating collection of stories about Australia's love affair with booze.

©2018 Jim Haynes (P)2018 Bolinda Publishing

Listeners also enjoyed...

Australia's Best Unknown Stories cover art
The Best Australian Yarns and Other True Stories cover art
Protest cover art
The Only Girl in the World cover art
A Million Tears cover art
The Valley cover art
Going Places cover art
Beyond Nab End cover art
Soldiers and Lovers cover art
The Virgin Soldiers cover art
A Dog Called Demolition cover art
Love Among the Ruins cover art
Adolf Hitler cover art
Four Fires cover art
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun cover art
And the Land Lay Still cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Got 2 hours into the book. 1 story worth a small chuckle. The rest is just a monotone history lesson.

Boring

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.