All Points North society & culture exploding our expectations of a

exploding our expectations of a novel about "identity" and offering in its place a sui generis picture of the loneliness that afflicts modern life

having found love with boyfriend

this is Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best

he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China

he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world

All Points North society & culture exploding our expectations of aAll 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.