- Published: 20 July 2017
- ISBN: 9781473527683
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Long Road from Jarrow
A journey through Britain then and now
- Published: 20 July 2017
- ISBN: 9781473527683
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Footsore in spacetime, hiking simultaneously through memory and landscape, in Long Road from Jarrow Stuart Maconie shadows the defiant, desperate and dignified crusade of 1936 through a modern world where everything has changed except for the austerity, the poverty, the national and global instability, the worrying ascendancy of fascism, and the resilient decency of ordinary people. This is a necessary book; a necessary journey through English identity, and one which you’ll be glad that you embarked on. Now, yes, now is the hour.
Alan Moore
Maconie’s book is not only a heartfelt tribute to Wilkinson and the marchers, but a reaffirmation of the role of the personal within the political, and a rallying call for anyone stirred by the story of Jarrow
The Observer
The result is this rich, evocative book. Part travelogue, part history, part examination of a nation in flux. It is all a delight ****
Mail on Sunday, EVENT Magazine
With yet another conservative government refusing to budge it is hard to avoid Maconie’s conclusion that persuading the uncommitted is as vital as ever
New Statesman
A tribute and a rallying call
The Guardian
An insightful impassioned and witty voyage through Brexit Britain that serves as both travelogue and social commentary
Waitrose Weekend