Adventures on the High Teas

Stuart Maconie

RRP: £11.99

Publisher: EBURY PRESS

Publication Date : 05/03/2009

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Middle England can be an insult or a compliment, but where - and more precisely "what" - is it? Conjuring up images of decency and bigotry, maypoles and flooded towns, honey in tea and binge drinkers, people from Shakespeare to Jeremy Clarkson and Vaughan Williams to Craig David have had their say about it, but Maconie sets out to make his own mind up, with plenty of stops for tea and cakes along the way. Maconie is the number 1 non tie-in travel writer in the UK, and has a nightly program on BBC Radio 2 which attracts millions of listeners.

Publisher's description:

Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers in the park? Stands the church clock still at ten to three, and is there honey still for tea? And is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais and John Betjeman make out?

ISBN: 9780091926502