- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9780091930301
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Pies and Prejudice
In search of the North
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9780091930301
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny
Guardian
Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton
Peter Kay
Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North
Hunter Davies
Effortlessly articulate
The Times
A lyrical, passionate, humorous and argumentative tour du force ... 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 North
An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful
Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times
Funnier than Bill Bryson. There's lots to love about Maconie's North - even for Southern Jessies
Metro
Affectionate, informed, conversationally honest, polemical
Daily Telegraph
Lyrical, passionate, humorous and argumentative tour de force...an early contender for the best travel book of the year
Big Issue
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
The books succeeds...because of his care and wit in revealing something of these wonderful cities
Observer
Maconie is such an enjoyable writer
Guardian
Something far more thoughtful here than just a travelogue played for laughs.
Publishing News
[Stuart Maconie's] search for his northern soul has just the right balance of pies and prejudice to be right good
Independent
A witty and illuminating travelogue
Sunday Times