All Points North
Simon Armitage
  • Published: 30 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141923970
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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All Points North

the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

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30 Jun 2009
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30 Jun 2009
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A revised and expanded reissue of Simon Armitages outstanding, universally acclaimed and bestselling memoir about growing up in the north of England - published to coincide with the paperback of Gig

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.
  • Published: 30 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141923970
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

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Praise for All Points North

A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory

Sue Townsend, Sunday Times

I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett - there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark . . . a fine balance of humour and poignancy

The Times

The salty prose of an original poetic voice

Melvyn Bragg, Observer

A thoughtful, witty combination of travel writing, autobiography and Alan Bennett-style diary

John-Paul Flintoff, Daily Telegraph

An original and talented writer . . . highly entertaining and there are flashes of wit and moments of tenderness and brilliantly accurate observation

Vernon Scannell, Sunday Telegraph

The best book I have read in a long time on what he insists is the true North of England

Geoffrey Moorhouse, Daily Telegraph

Laugh-out-loud funny . . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye

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