From the back cover: "A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches 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."

Taking this along to the BC meet at the Kings Arms, Oxford where I hope it will find a good home (or mildly bad one) :-)

Picked up at the Oxford meet today, encouraged by my daughter chelseagirl, as I am a Northener. As it's written by a fellow Northerner I hope it won't make me shout too much at silly errors or prejudices!

Enjoyed this book and could relate to much of it, though he is a Lancastrian and I am from t'other side of the Pennines.

On bookshelves in the room at the back of the cafe area.