HUNGOVER : A History Of the Morning After And One Man's Quest For the Cure

Part Simon Winchester, part Joshua Foer, part A.J. Jacobs, and all Bishop-Stall, HUNGOVER is both lamentation and celebration of a very human experience.

HUNGOVER is an irresistible blend of culture, history, science, philosophy, and mischievous humour. It will be, like its author, a little bit bad, but in a good way. It will be unique, enlightening and entertaining, full of surprise anecdotes, stories of epic struggle, little-known facts and questionable advice. As long as there have been hangovers, there have been attempts to get rid of them. The ancient Romans ate owl eggs, the Mongolians sheep eyes, and the Syrians ground up sparrow beaks. To this day, despite convenience shelves full of mass marketed elixirs, the true antidote still eludes us.

In HUNGOVER acclaimed journalist, novelist and witty raconteur Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall explores what happens to the our bodies when we over imbibe and all the ways, over time and through cultures, we've tried to fix it. Starting with a field trip to Dr. Jason Burke of Hangover Heaven in Las Vegas, Bishop-Stall draws on his own experiments and experiences and those of the greats of the past- from Biblical Noah to Churchill to pitcher David Wells.

As noted in the attached partial manuscript (Parts 1 & 2 of the book), the author will soon be taking trips as part of his international hangover quest to Scotland, Germany, Croatia and London England. The complete first draft will be ready in Oct 2015.

Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall's first book Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown was nominated for the 2005 Pearson Writers' Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Trillium Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. The following year, he was awarded the Knowlton Nash Journalism Fellowship at Massey College. He currently teaches writing at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. Ghosted, his first novel, was published by Random House Canada in 2010, in the US by Softskull Press and in France by Actes Sud. Ghosted was a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award and has been optioned for TV.