Difford's Guide to Cocktails Fifteenth Edition

More than twenty years in the making, our monster 2kg, 52mm (2 inch) thick hardback cocktail book includes 3,000 recipes (in both ml and ounces) all accompanied by a colour photograph.

New recipes to 15th edition: 600
Updated recipes from prev. edition: 900

We self-publish the English edition

I (Simon Difford) make the cocktails and write the book.
Dan, our long-standing photographer and designer creates the recognisably Difford's Guide look and feel with a pic alongside each cocktail. Paloma, my partner and our boss, makes it happen and checks our work.

By us & only from us

Thanks to Covid we took the decision to only sell directly from this page ourselves rather than via retailers such as Amazon (as with previous editions) so every sale helps fund this website.

Packed & dispatched by us

We hand-package and label every book ourselves and dispatch directly from our little office in East Sussex via Danny, our friend from Parcelforce.

Protective packaging

We made the difficult decision to ask our brilliant and very helpful printers to shrink-wrap every book. We are keen to avoid the use of single-use plastics but equally want to ensure our books arrive in perfect condition, clean and dry, encased in their own protective atmosphere. Please dispose of this plastic wrapper responsibly and be reassured that our purpose-made plain brown boxes with protective ends are made from recycled material and are recyclable.

Known typos - 15th Edition

With over 3,000 recipes we [mostly me] make the odd mistake and these are hard to spot due to the challenge of proofreading such a tome. The following are the howlers we're aware of (bound to be more). SORRY!
Page 230 - Fog Cutter cocktail. Please only use crushed ice NOT crushed glass. Who would be so stupid?!
Page 285 - Hotel Georgia cocktail. So good that it deserved a second mention. It's better with 12.5ml orgeat. A miscommunication between new and updated!
Page 427 - Purgatory cocktail. The recipe lists Green Chartreuse twice but the last ingredient should be "Chilled water (omit if wet ice)"