Pies and Prejudice [Paperback]In Search of the Northby Stuart Maconie
Usually ships within 3 to 5 working days Description of Pies and Prejudice'My name is Stuart Maconie, and I am from the North Of England. Some time ago, I was standing in my kitchen, rustling up a Sunday brunch for some very hungover, very Northern mates who were 'down' for the weekend. One of them was helping me out and, recipe book in hand, asked "where are the sun-dried tomatoes?" "They're behind the cappuccino maker," I replied. Silence fell. We slowly met each other's gaze. We did not say anything. We did not need to. Each read the other's unspoken thought: we had become those kinds of people, the kind of people who had sun-dried tomatoes and cappuccino makers, the kind of people who did Sunday brunch. In other words: southerners.' A northerner in exile, stateless and confused, hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and Maseratis in Wilmslow, Stuart goes in search of The North. Delving into his own past, it is a riotously funny journey in search of where the cliches end and the truth begins.He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower, the Bigg Market in Newcastle to the daffodil-laden Lake District in search of his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of Scousers, Scallies, pie-eating Woolly-backs, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.Title Information
Press and Industry Reviewsa lyrical, passionate, humorous and argumentative tour du fource...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 NorthAffectionate, informed, conversationally honest, polemical Daily Telegraph An heir to Alan Bennett…stirring and rather wonderful Anthony Quinn Sunday Times Effortlessly articulate The Times Funnier than Bill Bryson. There’s lots to love about Maconie’s North – even for Southern Jessies Metro Lyrical, passionate, humorous and argumentative tour de force…an early contender for the best travel book of the year Big Issue Maconie is such an enjoyable writer Guardian Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny Guardian Observant, enthusiastic and sympathetic GQ 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 Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton Peter Kay The books succeeds...because of his care and wit in revealing something of these wonderful cities The Observer Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North Hunter Davies Write a review of this book Customer Reviews from Amazon |
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