Eleven Minutes Late

Matthew Engel

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: MACMILLAN

Publication Date : 01/05/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Britain's railway system represents all the nation's incompetence, corruption and suffering, but also its ingenuity, nostalgia and humour. Railways are deeply embedded in our psyche and folklore, yet it is uncool to care about them. Engel travels from Penzance to Thurso, exploring its history and talking to everyone from politicians to platform staff in an attempt to explain our love/hate relationship with trains.

Publisher's description:

Part polemic part paean, this book shows how the railways in Britain represent all the nation's ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humor, capacity for suffering and even sexual repression.

ISBN: 9780230708983