The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited - Softcover
75 years after George Orwell's classic expose on life in the North, Stephen Armstrong returns to find that many things have changed - but not always for the better. Here he finds how fragile hope can be in the face of poverty, and reveals a society at the end of its tether, abandoned by all those who speak in its name."
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A journalist and broadcaster, Stephen Armstrong writes for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, GQ, Esquire and the New Statesman amongst others. He contributes documentaries and columns to Radio 4 and is currently working with al-jazeera on a film based around his recent book War Plc - the rise of the new corporate mercenary, which sold out its first print run in 10 days. His first book, The White Island, was published in 2005.
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