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Advantages: Great prose, funny and warm hearted - like your archetypal northerner Disadvantages: A little smug in places
Stuart Maconie is well known these days as a DJ on Radio 2 and a "talking head" on many TV shows which involve lists, such as the 100 best love songs or whatever idea Channel 4 has to fill the schedule cheaply on a Saturday night. He used to write for the ...
Advantages: A veritable page-turner of a travelogue Disadvantages: Nothing major
One does wonder if Stuart Maconie dreams up the titles for his books before he even knows what they'll be about. In his follow up to the my-life-with-music-cum-autobiography "Cider With Roadies" our erstwhile doyen of BBC Radio and music journalism ponder ...
Advantages: Amusing, well researched Disadvantages: Skant on the North East, heavy on musical history
I should open this review by admitting a bias. I love the North of England, and I ordered this book to learn a little more about the history of the settlements and the culture. The writer clearly also loves the North, although I did find myself chuckling ...
The "Silk Road" must be the most romanticised route in the world. It conjures up pictures from all of our fairy tales, of castles and minarets and oriental folk in strange garb. For me personally it conjures a hard-paved road I once walked in the foothi ...
Advantages: Lots of info about countries I didn't know about Disadvantages: Poor section on Iran
This book is one that I had longed to read for ages and finally managed to get hold of in the summer. I have an interest in History and reading about the history of the silk road sounded like it would be really interesting. Also my wife is Iranian and as ...
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