The white cliffs of Dover, pastoral landscapes and neat little houses, prim imperial London… Journalist and TV presenter Stuart Maconie reveals to us a different England—real, modern, free from worn-out clichés. Our route leads north from London—through Liverpool and Manchester, the Lake District and Blackpool, Wigan and Newcastle—to those very parts where, Londoners believe, dragons still dwell and where the real England is located, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to illustrations in guidebooks…