Pies and Prejudice, Paperback/Stuart Maconie

A Northerner in exile, popular journalist, writer, TV and radio presenter Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. From Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District, he revisits his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks and topless Geordies. The trade paperback edition sold over 70,000 copies. 'Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton' Peter Kay