The North of England Home Service

<p><b>‘Extraordinary, funny, tender, poetic . . . The story that emerges is Britain’s.’ <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br><br><b>With a new introduction by George Shaw</b><br><br> In a forensic dissection of Britain’s souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from a fading career, who returns to the unnamed northern town of his youth.</p>