ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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. His latest film is The Joy of Essex. He lives in Marseille.