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'We are surrounded by the greatest of free shows. Places" 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'. This book collects 54 pieces and six film scripts that dissolve the barriers between high and low culture, good and bad taste, deep seriousness and black comedy. Meades delivers 'heavy entertainment' - strong opinions backed up by an astonishing depth of knowledge. To read Meades on places, buildings, politics, or cultural history is an exhilarating workout for the mind. He leaves you better informed, more alert, less gullible. "Everything is fantastical if you stare at it for long enough. Everything is interesting."
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Jonathan Meades is the author of two novels, 'Pompey' and 'The Fowler Family Business', and two collections of short stories, 'Filthy English' and 'Peter Knows What Dick Likes'. His highly acclaimed topographical and architectural series for the BBC include 'Abroad in Britain', 'Further Abroad' and 'Meades on France'. He lives in Marseille.
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"I pick up Jonathan Meades's new collection of essays, Museum Without Walls and I read a paragraph or three. It's the writerly equivalent of standing on the top of Kinder Scout and breathing deeply. The scope of his ideas, the force of his arguments, the sheer vitality of his sentences: these things come at you like negative ions after a storm, with the result that you soon start to feel an awful lot better - envious but revitalised too." -- Rachel Cooke New Statesman "One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades." -- Stephen Fry
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- PublisherUnbound
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1908717181
- ISBN 13 9781908717184
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages446
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