Adventures on the High Teas
In Search of Middle England
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2010
Summary
The Sunday Times bestselling author is back and in search of Middle EnglandEveryone talks about ‘Middle England’. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn’t know either, so he packed his Thermos and sandwiches and set off to find out…Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed mi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780091926519 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0091926513 |
| Author: | Stuart Maconie |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 21mm |
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Adventures on the High Teas is magnificent: sprawling in its research, illuminating, quirky, saddening, fun, often angry and always intensely readable.
Adventures on the High Teas is magnificent: sprawling in its research, illuminating, quirky, saddening, fun, often angry and always intensely readable. * Observer *Stuart Maconie discovers whether Middle England is a place or a feeling… all described with his usual charm and wit. * Lonely Planet *Maconie’s gift is finding beauty in the most unexpected places and after reading this you’ll want to call up Google maps and plan your own journey. It’s a wonderfully enriching read. * News of the World *Taken as a whole, the book amounts to a time capsule of England as it is now; it is, in its quirky offbeat way, a celebration of this country’s extra-ordinary capacity to accomodate change while remaining essentially the same. – Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *It is these juxtapositions of the high and the low, the hip and the furiously unfashionable, or, if you like, the sublime and the ridiculous, that make Maconie such an entertaining tour guide. – Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *I love Stuart Maconie - he’s one of Briatin’s truest and most comforting voices. In High Teas… he explodes the myths and stereotypes of Middle England. My own preconcived notions were banished with this delightful, warm postcard from some of England’s most eccentric places. – Gary Lightbody, Snow Patrol * FHM *Puffed up and preposterous, but Piers is the Pepys of the celebrity age. – Sam Leith * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Stuart Maconie
Stuart Maconie is a writer, broadcaster and journalist familiar to millions from his work in print, on radio and on TV. His previous bestsellers have included Cider with Roadies, Pies and Prejudice and Adventures on the High Teas, and he currently hosts the afternoon show on BBC 6music with Mark Radcliffe as well as weekly show The Freak Zone. Based in the cities of Birmingham and Manchester, he can also often be spotted on top of a mountain in the Lake District with a Thermos flask and individual pork pie.
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