All Points North : the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

Author: Armitage, Simon

Yorkshire

Published on 28 May 2009 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 256 pages, None
197 x 129 x 17 | 186g

'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday TimesAll Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland -

Simon Armitage explores growing up and being Northern. It's about humour, language, writing, film, houses, homes, time wasters, one loose tyre, you, me and all points in-between.

'Laugh-out-loud funny' Independent'A delight' Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement 'A perfect holiday dipper' Scotsman'An Alan Bennett-style diary' Daily Telegraph