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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 28/05/2009
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ISBN: 9780141040462
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
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Weight: 181g
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RRP: £9.99
All Points North
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the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
'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
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 28/05/2009
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ISBN: 9780141040462
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
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Weight: 181g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory
Sue Townsend, Sunday Times
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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
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The salty prose of an original poetic voice
Melvyn Bragg, Observer
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A thoughtful, witty combination of travel writing, autobiography and Alan Bennett-style diary
John-Paul Flintoff, Daily Telegraph
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Laugh-out-loud funny . . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye
Independent
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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
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The best book I have read in a long time on what he insists is the true North of England
Geoffrey Moorhouse, Daily Telegraph
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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
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The salty prose of an original poetic voice
Melvyn Bragg, Observer
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Laugh-out-loud funny... has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye
Independent
