{"product_id":"northerners-9780008471231","title":"Northerners","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Entertaining and informative. … Avoids sentimentality and stereotypes. … Groom keeps his history admirably down to earth.’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Book of the Week\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A definitive new chronicle of the region, the first to appear this century.’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Groom’s chronicling of northern setbacks is urbane rather than indignant. … Comprehensive and highly readable.’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘This is a huge book, in which the author slips seamlessly and triumphantly from one subject to another.’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Hugely impressive.’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A rich and kaleidoscopic history of a region, its landscape, industries, culture and people. \u003cem\u003eNortherners\u003c\/em\u003e is rigorous, digressive, discursive, always entertaining and enlightening, as full of good things as the North itself.’ \u003cstrong\u003eStuart Maconie\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePies and Prejudice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A wonderful compendium of the North’s proud, deep, ancient otherness.’ \u003cstrong\u003eJames Hawes,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eThe Shortest History of England\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘An essential writer on politics and business and a tireless champion of the north.’ \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Parker, political editor, \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A measured and essential voice in these compromised times.’ \u003cstrong\u003eAdam Boulton, editor-at-large at Sky News and presenter of All Out Politics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Few people are better placed to write the story of northerners. One of journalism’s most astute observers of the state of Britain.’ \u003cstrong\u003eHelen Pidd, North of England editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Brian Groom is one of the leading experts on Britain’s regions and nations and a perceptive analyst.’ \u003cstrong\u003eDuncan Weldon, \u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eTwo Hundred Years of Muddling Through\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Panoramic, authoritative and a beautiful read. Brian has written the book everyone who wishes to understand the north of England must read.’ \u003cstrong\u003eSebastian Payne,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eBroken Heartlands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48863991136599,"sku":"9780008471231","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780008471231.jpg?v=1722269896","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/northerners-9780008471231","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}