<p>Well known in his native Tyneside, Harry''s best selling Northern Lights, the most borrowed book in Middlesborough Library, took aim at the appalling treatment of the North East.</p><p>there is an england [note the lack of capitals] widens the scope of Harry''s pen to the current state of the country. In his own words:</p><p>"A country with a parliament dating back over 800 years: a country which boasts a long line of engineers, inventors and pioneers who between them nigh-on made the modern world as we know it. Yet it was also </p><p>a country which - to the eyes of many outsiders - seemed hell-bent on a level of self-harm which would previously never have been believed possible."</p><p>"...like a spark in a furnace" - Wendy Pratt,</p><p>Northern Soul - about Northern Lights</p><p><br></p>