Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North

Reviews

Cheshire Dave

) I read all the time for my job - so,at home, I don't read many books and just read magazines and comics. I can't really see people from the South being too interested in a book about the North (and vice versa), but it's good-natured jibes all round, and with sudden surprising flashes of seriousness when The Troubles, The Moors Murders, and race riots, for example, are discussed. But, in general, it's a hotch-potch (or is that hot-pot?

But I actually looked forward to this one every night - and that's very rare for me. (I am writing from Cheshire - the bit that used to be in Lancashire - the book explains all that.

The other reviews are fair enough. With a title like that, I had to buy it. On balance, a great, not-too-demanding read, but probably by Northerners for Northerners. ) of interesting facts, gentle and humorous intentionally biased opinions, and a few laugh-out-loud moments.

. Flags a little in places, as if it's a long magazine article stretched out to fill a book, but I have almost finished reading it now, and have enjoyed nearly every moment.