AA GILL

A new collection, The Best of AA Gill, draws together some of the fearless, feisty and unfailingly funny late writer’s finest pieces. Among them is this gem, taken from the column he wrote for Gourmet Traveller for more than a decade.

As part of our first-ever summer reading special, AA Gill writes about the pleasures of reading on holiday.

One of London's most abiding stories is its taxis, writes AA Gill. And for him, the ticking of the meter is ever a harbinger of Christmas stockings and plum pudding.

Travelling to Perth, AA Gill contemplates westerly things: the wild west, the triumph of the West, and the clanking train of Westernness that he pulls around behind him.