Books by Alex Niven

1. Alex Niven, The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands .  If you can look past the usual ill-informed chatter about Maggie ruining northern England (the author needs to study growth models!), this is quite an interesting book.  I do not mind that it roams into the territory of popular music in what seems to be an arbitrary fashion.  Here is one bit: “I have written before about how a version of this cultural complex is one of the reasons why English identity — w...