Overview
Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - this title explores growing up and being Northern.
''A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory'' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times
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All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer''s formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - Simon Armitage explores growing up and being Northern. It''s about humour, language, writing, film, houses, homes, time wasters, one loose tyre, you, me and all points in-between.
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''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Independent
''A delight'' Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement
''A perfect holiday dipper'' Scotsman
''An Alan Bennett-style diary'' Daily Telegraph
- | Author: Simon Armitage
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: May 28, 2009
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141040462
- | ISBN-10: 0141040467
