The North of England Home Service - Gordon Burn

‘Extraordinary, funny, tender, poetic . . . The story that emerges is Britain’s.’ Times Literary SupplementWith a new introduction by George Shaw 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.