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Up North Charles Jennings

Up North By Charles Jennings

Up North by Charles Jennings


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Charles Jennings explores the legendary bastions of Northerness. He looks at towns such as Bradford, Newcastle and Blackpool and investigates Moss Side from the inside of a locked car. He looks at the etymology of Northern place-names and the myth of Yorkshireness.

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Up North Summary

Up North: Travels Beyond the Watford Gap by Charles Jennings

The North.
Where does it begin? Where does it end? And is it all whippets, black pudding and queer folk going rounds saying There's nowt so queer as folk?
Fresh from the PJ O'Rourke School of Diplomatic Journalism, southern jessie Charles Jennings finds himself in need of Answers. With something approaching trepidation, Jennings packs his big girl's blouse in a suitcase full of prejudice and ventures fearfully into the great melting-pot that is the North of England - undergoing in the process a series of life changing experiences such as being mistaken for an exhibit at the Wigan Pier: Where History Comes Alive! Museum and voluntarily attending a concert featuring Roy Walker.

Scandalous, astonishingly rude, scabrously funny, Up North presents the quintissential northern experience.

Up North Reviews

Very funny indeed...in the way that Bill Bryson was funny in the Lost Continent. * SUNDAY TIMES *
The funniest, wickedest dissection of the North I have ever come across. * KEITH WATERHOUSE *
Blissfully funny. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
What on earth does he think a rown like Blackpool should smell like? * Director of Tourism, Blackpool *

About Charles Jennings

Charles Jennings was born in London and educated there and at Oxford. He is married with two children and works as a writer and journalist. He is the author of People Like Us, Father's Race, Greenwich, Faintheart and The Fast Set.

Additional information

CIN0349106851VG
9780349106854
0349106851
Up North: Travels Beyond the Watford Gap by Charles Jennings
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
19951207
240
N/A
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