Jonathan Meades is the widely acclaimed author of Pompey, Museum Without Walls (20k copies) and An Encyclopaedia of Myself described as 'a masterpiece' by the Financial Times, and shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize among many others.
His numerous films for the BBC are legendary, covering a vast range of subjects from jargon to the architecture of Fascism.
This book assembles the best of Meades's as yet uncollected writing from the past thirty years.