Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels, and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and 'the gaps between them', drawing attention to what he calls "the rich oddness of what we take for granted". Museum Without Walls...

Empty Wigs is a hallucinatory ride through the twentieth century that will cement Jonathan Meades as one of the great imaginative writers of our age. It moves from bloody Algiers in 1962 to the Welsh Marches in the late nineteenth century, from Luneburg Heath to suburban southern England. Its characters are damned and doomed. They exert free will so make...