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Biographical note
Stuart Maconie is a writer, broadcaster and journalist familiar to millions from his work in print, on radio and on TV. His previous bestsellers have included Cider with Roadies, Pies and Prejudice and Adventures on the High Teas, and he currently hosts the afternoon show on BBC 6music with Mark Radcliffe as well as weekly show The Freak Zone. Based in the cities of Birmingham and Manchester, he can also often be spotted on top of a mountain in the Lake District with a Thermos flask and individual pork pie.The English Bill Bryson
- Tony Wilson,
The perfect pop fan's life ... effortlessly articulate
The Times
Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton
- Peter Kay,
An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful
- Antony Quinn, Sunday Times
If you only read one personal music odyssey, make it this one
GQ
Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North
- Hunter Davies,
A working class boy who now, on air, challenges Stephen Fry's spry wit, Maconie celebrates his younger self modestly and fluently, pausing only for regular rib-ticklers
Mojo
Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny
Guardian
Exuberantly anecdotal, witty and poignant
GQ