We are not aware of any competing volumes. As the reviewer pointed out, "I know of no competing texts. Such as have been published either deal with individual disciplines (such as Katie Wales’ book, which is largely linguistic) or sub-areas of the north (such as Helen Jewell’s on the North-east)." Nevertheless, here are selected book titles from different disciplines that may be seen as complementary to the current volume.

Helen M. Jewell, The North-South Divide: The Origin of Northern Consciousness in England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994)

Dave Russell, Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).

R. H. Baker and Mark Billinge (eds), Geographies of England: The North–South Divide, Material and Imagined, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Katie Wales, Northern English: A Social and Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)