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

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

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