Move Along, Please

Mark Mason

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Random House Books
15 July 2013

Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general interest

From Land's End to John O'Groats by local bus

At 10.41am on a Tuesday morning in September, Mark Mason boards the number 1A bus at Land's End in Cornwall. Forty-six buses and eleven days later he disembarks at John O'Groats in Scotland. Move Along Please is his account of that gruelling 1100-mile odyssey; a paint-by-bus-numbers portrait of Britain.

Along the way he visits everywhere from the village where the internet enters Britain to the urban sprawl of Birmingham (inspiration for the Two Towers in Lord of the Rings). He samples staples of the British diet from curry to the deep-fried Mars Bar, and uncovers countless fascinating facts about his native land - did you know, for example, that Crewe Alexandra football club is named after the wife of Edward VII, that Loch Ness could hold the water from all the lakes in England and Wales, or that there is a village which rejoices in the name Tongue End?

Set against the backdrop of 2000 years of history and with a full supporting cast drawn from that most unusual of species, the Great British Public, this is the unmissable story of a man rediscovering his nation in all its idiosyncratic glory.

By: Mark Mason
Imprint: Random House Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 339g
ISBN: 9781847947109
ISBN 10: 1847947107
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 July 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in the Midlands in 1971, Mark Mason moved to London when he was 20. Over the next 13 years he sold Christmas cards in Harrods, made radio programmes for the BBC and busked outside Eric Clapton gigs at the Royal Albert Hall. He also published three novels, several books of fiction, and wrote for publications as diverse as The Spectator and Four Four Two. He continues to do some of these things, though he has now defected to Suffolk, where he lives with his partner and son.

Reviews for Move Along, Please

This book should be on the National Curriculum. * Iain Lee, BBC London * Amazing. * BBC Radio 5 Live * A good source of factoids, I'm thinking. * Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2 * The facts just spill out over the pages - so much you can learn. * BBC 6 Radio Music *

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