Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades FRSL, hon FRIBA is a writer and film-maker. His books include three works of fiction -
Filthy English,
Pompey and
The Fowler Family Business - and several collections of non-fiction, including
Museum Without Walls and, most recently,
Pedro and Ricky Come Again. His memoir
An Encyclopaedia of Myself
won Best Memoir in the Spear's Book Awards 2014 and was shortlisted for the 2015 Pen Ackerley Prize. His cookbook
The Plagiarist in the Kitchen was published in 2017 by Unbound, which is currently crowdfunding his new novel,
Empty Wigs.
'Fiercely independent-minded, Meades is the only non-fiction writer in the world worth a damn.'
Roger Lewis, The Spectator
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Jonathan Meades has written and performed in more than 60 television shows on predominantly topographical subjects such as shacks, garden cities, megastructures, buildings associated with vertigo, beer, pigs, and the architecture of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Franco. Some of his films are available on
The Jonathan Meades Collection DVD or can be viewed at MeadesShrine on Vimeo:
http://meadesshrine.blogspot.fr/p/shrine.html
Meades's original artworks, his 'Random Treyfs and Artknacks', have featured in two solo exhibitions, in London and Harrogate.
'Jonathan Meades, TV's most brilliant, belligerent and historically aware auteur.'
