Authors
Paul Garrigan
BooksThailand.com teamed up with Paul Garrigan. Paul is an ex-drunk who has found that living sober is better than anything he could have imagined previously. He's originally from Ireland but now lives in Thailand; a wonderful place to be free of addiction. He likes to talk about recovery in the hope that it will inspire other people, but mostly because he just likes to talk. Join him on his wonderful journey and see where it takes us.
Dead Drunk is the moving and powerful story of a teenager who lost himself to alcohol addiction after the breakdown of his parent’s marriage. Paul Garrigan has written an honest (and often darkly humorous) account of the events that led him to travel the world and embark on a series of staggering drinking binges throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His adventures took him from the quite suburbs of Dublin to begging on the streets of London, getting paid to drink in Oxford and swigging illegal booze in Saudi Arabia, before finally ending up in a remote Thai village where he finally succumbed to his addiction, and was determined to drink himself to death. To read more please click here.
'Dead Drunk in Dublin' - Two Weeks I will never forget' - By Paul Garrigan
It is now six months since my book Dead Drunk was released. I went back to Ireland to promote the launch and this was such an exciting time. It was when one of my lifetime ambitions became a reality; something I created was on sale in shops across the city where I grew up. Getting a book on the shelves is always nice but there is just something special to see it there in your home town. The publicity for the book meant that I got a lot of attention for a couple of weeks – a period of my life that I’ll never forget.
Why the Release of Dead Drunk Meant so Much to Me
These days it isn’t such a big deal to have other people read our ramblings. The internet and the popularity of blogs means that some of us have more people reading our content each week then Charles Dickens probably had reading his work during his whole lifetime. I love blogs but there is just something so appealing about a book. I’ve always been fascinated by them; even before I could read. Growing up my favourite place in the world was the library and my library ticket was like a ticket to Disney Land – books were like a gateway to another world. For years my favourite book shop in the world was Easons on O’Connell Street; this was the first place I went when Dead Drunk hit the shops. So for me getting my book in the shops was a very big deal.... To read more follow this link.
