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Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie

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Pies and Prejudice

Author
Stuart Maconie
Narrator
Stuart Maconie
Publisher
Random House
Publish Date
5 March 2009
Run Time
6 hours
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Travel writing
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What to expect

A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.

Critics Review

  • Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton

    Peter Kay

  • An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful

    Sunday Times

  • Funnier than Bill Bryson. There's lots to love about Maconie's North - even for Southern Jessies

    Metro

  • Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny

    Guardian

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  • A lyrical, passionate, humorous and argumentative tour du force ... Imagine Nick Danzinger meets Nik Cohen meets Ricky Tomlinson and you've got the perfect blend of humorously incisive northern-travel writing. An early contender for best travel book of the year.

    Big Issue North

  • Affectionate, informed, conversationally honest, polemical

    Daily Telegraph

  • Effortlessly articulate

    The Times

  • One of the delights of Pies and Prejudice is Maconie's prose...behind Maconie's crafted wordplay is a serious thesis: that the North is more than its image

    The Times

  • Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North

    Hunter Davies

  • Lyrical, passionate, humorous and argumentative tour de force...an early contender for the best travel book of the year

    Big Issue

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Details
Author
Stuart Maconie
Narrator
Stuart Maconie
Duration
6 hours
Release Date
5 March 2009
ISBN
9781407004747
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Random House
Genre
Travel writing

Synopsis

A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.

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