Up North (book)

"Up North" is a travel book by Charles Jennings, [cite news |title=Invisible cities |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/content/article/1027212132.html |work=New Statesman and Society |date=1995-10-02 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ] detailing his excursion from the south to Northern England. [cite book |title=Looking North |last=Russell |first=Dave |year=2004 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=9780719051784 |pages=pp. 68-69 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fGI3Bgy54OcC&pg=PA68&dq=%22Up+North%22+%2B%22Charles+Jennings%22&num=100&sig=ACfU3U1xem_Tp524ynGhbGuBiTYGi3j09A#PPA68,M1 |accessdate=2008-09-03] Throughout the duration of the book, written in 1992, he conveys a sense of grimness and hopelessness with a certain acerbic wit; [cite news |title=Diary |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19951207/ai_n14022264 |work=The Independent |date=1995-12-07 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ] he suggests, for instance, that the name Grimsby may be dissected as combining 'grim' and 'by the sea'.

The Mayor of Grimsby at the time commented that Jennings "should have stayed under his duvet down south." [cite news |title=THE WEASEL |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020615/ai_n12626860 |work=The Independent |date=2002-06-15 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ]

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