Pies and Prejudice, Stuart Maconie
Pies and Prejudice, Stuart Maconie
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Pies and Prejudice
In search of the North

Author: Stuart Maconie

Narrator: Stuart Maconie

Abridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2009

Synopsis

A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hilary on January 16, 2013

I loved this. I found it hilarious, but humour is a very personal thing, and other readers may not crack a smile, I do realise. A tour of the North of England, witty, erudite, argumentative and loving, by an exiled son of Wigan. He knows a staggering amount about the music, the popular culture, the s......more

Goodreads review by Nick on February 07, 2017

I quite enjoyed the other Stuart Maconie book I have read (Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England) last summer - but was slightly underwhelmed by that book's attempt to define 'Middle England' as I found it all a little gentle and indefinite, and also slightly contrived. In this boo......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 15, 2023

I found this ridiculously entertaining. Mr Maconie is a top man. I'm a fan of his 6 music show on Sundays called The Freak Zone where he plays all manner of "left-field" music......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on December 17, 2010

[URL not allowed] A couple of years back I read Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island and wasn't hugely impressed. This, on the other hand, is a wonderful book about the North of England, prefaced by the Ninth Doctor quote, "Lots of planets have a north", written with affec......more

Quotes

Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton Peter Kay

An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful Sunday Times

Funnier than Bill Bryson. There's lots to love about Maconie's North - even for Southern Jessies Metro

Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny Guardian

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

Affectionate, informed, conversationally honest, polemical Daily Telegraph

Effortlessly articulate The Times

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

Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North Hunter Davies

Lyrical, passionate, humorous and argumentative tour de force...an early contender for the best travel book of the year Big Issue

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