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All Points North

All Points North

the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

Summary

'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


Reviews

  • A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory
    Sue Townsend, Sunday Times

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Simon Armitage

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