CLEANING UP
• ‘Pretty much unputdownable’ (Evening Standard)
• ‘Unflinchingly honest’ (Time Out)
• ‘A blazingly defiant wit,’ (Metro)
• ‘Those fretting about their affection for the bottle might find this book helpful’ (Guardian)
Heavy drinking is one of our national pastimes, and women are fast overtaking men, regardless of background or upbringing. Tania was an ordinary middle class girl; nobody’s stereotype of the dirty, shouting alcoholic. Exposing the culpability of the drinks industry, the enabling qualities of Class As and our powerful sense of entitlement to go out and have it large until we fall over, Cleaning Up examines a moral panic of our time, exploring why women drink, how to stop and what life after alcohol is really like.
Tania Glyde was immersed in Britain’s drink culture for 23 years before a car crash of life events finally forced her to stop. Like so many people, she sometimes wondered if she had a problem, but as a clock-watching 6pm-er who hardly ever threw up in public, and never fell asleep on the train, by general standards she was fine – even though she was hung over nearly every day of her adult life.
Published by Serpent’s Tail. (Publisher’s website) (Amazon link) The above is from the most recent press release.
Download the Cleaning Up Introduction here.
PRESS
• Independent – The Longest Hangover: My 23 Years As An Alcoholic
• Sunday Times serial part one – My Love Affair With Alcohol
• Sunday Times serial part two – Swathed in a Liquid Blanket
• Review in the Evening Standard (link to blog)
• Review in Attitude
• Interview in the Daily Mail (warning – um, Maily)
• Review in the Guardian (warning – a bit snitty)
• Review in the New Statesman (warning – ditto – they didn’t get it at all)
• Interview with the Irish Independent
• Feature in Irish Tatler (to come)
• Feature in Red magazine, February 2008 issue
• Interview in the Bookseller, November 2007
• Was My Boozing To Blame For My Stroke? Interview in the Evening Standard
APPEARANCES
• Robert Elms show, BBC London
• BBC World Service
• London Tonight, ITV
• LK Today, Breakfast Television, GMTV
• Phantom FM, Ireland
• Radio Europe Mediteranneo
• Dublin 98FM
• Tessa Dunlop show on BBC London
• BBC Radio Bristol
• BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
SCANS
You can go to Flickr for scans of my press. [STOP PRESS: They not all up there yet, for various reasons, including the non-proximity of an A3 scanner...]
April 23rd, 2008 → 11:28 am
[...] CLEANING UP [...]
February 11th, 2009 → 11:24 pm
[...] Keen’s work ranges from comic book inspired free-for-alls to vaguely erotic scenes of debauchery in squats and apocalyptic visions in ancient quarries. Tania, Kim and Alex look at the variety of images and found footage in Keen’s work and try to answer the inevitable question: “What does it all mean?”… Thursday 12th Feb, 10.30pm, 104.4 FM Archive of Tania and Kim’s previous shows at http://www.midnightsextalk.com Info on Tania’s book Cleaning Up [...]
February 12th, 2009 → 1:12 pm
[...] Jeff Keen season and DVD box set Listen to Kim’s previous film reviews Tania’s blog and info about her book Cleaning up, how I gave up drinking and lived Alex’s early radio appearances on episodes of Midnight Sex Talk concerning [...]
February 12th, 2009 → 10:43 pm
[...] Jeff Keen season and DVD box set Listen to Kim’s previous film reviews Tania’s blog and info about her book Cleaning up, how I gave up drinking and lived Alex’s early radio appearances on episodes of Midnight Sex Talk concerning [...]
February 17th, 2009 → 12:10 am
[...] Jeff Keen season and DVD box set Listen to Kim’s previous film reviews Tania’s blog and info about her book Cleaning up, how I gave up drinking and lived Alex’s early radio appearances on episodes of Midnight Sex Talk concerning [...]
February 17th, 2009 → 12:15 am
[...] Jeff Keen season and DVD box set Listen to Kim’s previous film reviews Tania’s blog and info about her book Cleaning up, how I gave up drinking and lived Alex’s early radio appearances on episodes of Midnight Sex Talk concerning [...]
February 17th, 2009 → 12:22 am
[...] Jeff Keen season and DVD box set Listen to Kim’s previous film reviews Tania’s blog and info about her book Cleaning up, how I gave up drinking and lived Alex’s early radio appearances on episodes of Midnight Sex Talk concerning [...]