''Up North'' is a

travel book The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In ...

by Charles Jennings, detailing his excursion from the south to

Northern England Northern England, also known as the North of England, the North Country, or simply the North, is the northern area of England. It broadly corresponds to the former borders of Angle Northumbria, the Anglo-Scandinavian Kingdom of Jorvik, and the ...

. Throughout the duration of the book, written in 1992, he conveys a sense of grimness and hopelessness " up north" with a certain acerbic wit; he suggests, for instance, that the name

Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of Linco ...

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."

References

British travel books 1992 non-fiction books Books about England Northern England {{travel-book-stub