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    Yorkshire: There And Back (martin) Pb

    £12.99
    As one of the county's finest authors, Andrew Martin delivers a comprehensive, personal, and funny celebration of all the things that make Yorkshire, Yorkshire.
    ISBN: 9781472154873
    AuthorMartin, Andrew
    PublisherNameLittle, Brown Book Group
    Pub Date20/07/2023
    BindingPaperback
    Pages336
    Availability: In Stock

    In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.

    Journeying to every historic corner, Martin writes affectionally about its past, present and peculiarities. York is an evolving city of chocolate, trains, pubs and tourists. Scarborough should be viewed as the posh place it once was, with surprising secrets pertaining to Adolf Hitler and the sea. Leeds is seen as the 'hard' town with its party goers and late-night provocateurs, but its indoor market never fails to offer a sense of quintessential Yorkshireness on a rainy Saturday afternoon, with milky tea served in beakers and the Leeds United result coming through by osmosis. And the Moors and Dales continue to boast beauty and danger alike.

    Effortlessly entertaining and wonderfully detailed, Yorkshire: There and Back is a memoir, guide, and all-round appreciation of 'God's own county'.


    Praise for Andrew Martin

    'There is no one else who is writing like Andrew Martin today...unique and important' Guardian

    'Iconoclastic, entertaining and often devastatingly witty' Barry Forshaw, Independent

    'He can stop you in your tracks with a well-turned phrase' Sunday Times

    'A genuinely funny writer...also a daring one' The Times

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    In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.

    Journeying to every historic corner, Martin writes affectionally about its past, present and peculiarities. York is an evolving city of chocolate, trains, pubs and tourists. Scarborough should be viewed as the posh place it once was, with surprising secrets pertaining to Adolf Hitler and the sea. Leeds is seen as the 'hard' town with its party goers and late-night provocateurs, but its indoor market never fails to offer a sense of quintessential Yorkshireness on a rainy Saturday afternoon, with milky tea served in beakers and the Leeds United result coming through by osmosis. And the Moors and Dales continue to boast beauty and danger alike.

    Effortlessly entertaining and wonderfully detailed, Yorkshire: There and Back is a memoir, guide, and all-round appreciation of 'God's own county'.


    Praise for Andrew Martin

    'There is no one else who is writing like Andrew Martin today...unique and important' Guardian

    'Iconoclastic, entertaining and often devastatingly witty' Barry Forshaw, Independent

    'He can stop you in your tracks with a well-turned phrase' Sunday Times

    'A genuinely funny writer...also a daring one' The Times