All Points North society & culture and all the ways that

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All Points North society & culture and all the ways thatAll 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.