Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist, film-maker. His books include three works of fiction - Filthy English, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business - and several anthologies including the recently published Museum Without Walls.  He is currently working on a book entitled An Encyclopaedia of Myself which will be published in 2014.
 
He has written and performed in more than 50 television shows on predominantly topographical subjects such as shacks, garden cities, megastructures, buildings associated with vertigo, beer, pigs, and the architecture of Hitler and Stalin. Some of these are available on The Jonathan Meades Collection DVD. His latest film, The Joy of Essex, was shown on BBC4 in January 2013.

NEW: Unbound has launched Pidgin Snaps - a boxette of 100 life-changing postcard-sized photographs by Jonathan Meades. Find out more about the levels of funding here.

'Meades's documentaries have for years been the best history programmes on television... A marriage of Borges, Betjeman and Bronowski.' Paul Lay, Editor, History Today