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

''A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory'' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times
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All 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.
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''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Independent

''A delight'' Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement

''A perfect holiday dipper'' Scotsman

''An Alan Bennett-style diary'' Daily Telegraph