Pies and Prejudice : In Search of the North (Paperback)

from mstrust

Maconie is a columnist, radio personality and travel writer from the Northern town of Wigan. In this book he travels from his adopted home of London, in the South, to all places North. He goes to inland towns and villages and along much of the Northern coast, stopping at lots of apparently ugly p...

from JustAGirl

A brilliantly funny, highly entertaining trip around the North of England. This year's Attention All Shipping, I'd recommend it to everyone.

from richardgarside

Great perception - not good to read at one hit. Better enjoyed for me, if dipped into from time to time. As a Northerner, the book celebrates so many of the special traits which I remember embarassing me when I was young striving to be cosmopoitan, but which delight and amuse now. Questionable mu...

from eglinton

Maconie's voice transfers convincingly to the page, and this is always entertaining and readable. It's an affirmative account of the North of England, and its culture, a joky tone set by the use of Christopher Eccleston's introductory gag as a Dr Who ("lots of planets have a north": funny, but me...

from jcbrunner

There is London, and there is the rest of England. In contrast to most other European nations, England underplays its regions (Cornwall perhaps excepted). The radio presenter Stuart Maconie's take on Northern England also lumps the different regions of England's north together in one book, althou...