Pies and prejudice
Subtitle: in search of the north
By: Stuart Maconie
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: BBC Large Print
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781405648677; 9781405648684
Subjects: Large type books; Travel; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Description and travel
Description: A northerner in exile, stateless and confused, hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and Maseratis in Wilmslow, Stuart goes in search of The North. Delving into his own past, it is a riotously funny journey in search of where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower, the Bigg Market in Newcastle to the daffodil-laden Lake District in search of his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of Scousers, Scallies, pie-eating Woolly-backs, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.
Notes: Originally published: London: Ebury, 2006.