{"product_id":"adventures-on-the-high-teas-9780091926519","title":"Adventures on the High Teas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStuart 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 \u003ci\u003eCider with Roadies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePies and Prejudice \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAdventures on the High Teas\u003c\/i\u003e, and he currently hosts the afternoon show on BBC 6music with Mark Radcliffe as well as weekly show \u003ci\u003eThe Freak Zone\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdventures on the High Teas\u003c\/i\u003e is magnificent: sprawling in its research, illuminating, quirky, saddening, fun, often angry and always intensely readable. * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eStuart Maconie discovers whether Middle England is a place or a feeling... all described with his usual charm and wit. * Lonely Planet *\u003cbr\u003eMaconie'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 *\u003cbr\u003eTaken 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 *\u003cbr\u003eIt 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 *","brand":"Ebury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732192506199,"sku":"9780091926519","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780091926519.jpg?v=1719995906","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adventures-on-the-high-teas-9780091926519","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}