All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

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Product ID:	9780141040462
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	All Points North
Subtitle:	the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
Authors:	Author: Simon Armitage
Page Count:	256
Subjects:	Memoirs, Memoirs, Yorkshire
Description:	Select Guide Rating 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 - this title explores growing up and being Northern. ''A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory'' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times *_____________________________________* 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. *_____________________________________* ''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Independent ''A delight'' Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement ''A perfect holiday dipper'' Scotsman ''An Alan Bennett-style diary'' Daily Telegraph
Imprint Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2009-05-28

Weight	186 g
Dimensions	197 × 129 × 17 mm