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“jonathan meades”

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  • An Encyclopaedia of Myself

    by Jonathan Meades ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial TimesThe 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, drunks, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ian Nairn

    Words in Place

    by David McKie, Gillian Darley, Jonathan Meades, Owen Hatherley, Deyan Sudjic, Gavin Stamp ...
    "Ian Nairn taught a generation to look, and another one to write"Ian Nairn lit up the pages of the architectural press, broadsheets and TV screens with his incandescent reports on the uglification of Britain, not just by standard eyesores but by the prissy and the pretentious and the blunderings of planners and architects creating new buildings and roads which show no respect for the places they ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fowler Family Business

    by Jonathan Meades ...
    ‘One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades.’ Stephen FryAn inventively nasty, gruesomely comic paean to the sylvan heights of Forest Hill and Upper Norwood, a warped map of the death trade’s quotidian strangeness.Henry Fowler was twice, long ago, runner-up in the Oil Fuels Guild-sponsored Young Funeral Director of the Year competition. His ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Pedro and Ricky Come Again

    Selected Writing 1988–2020

    by Jonathan Meades ...
    'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The TimesThirty years ago, Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism, essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick Likes . The critic James Wood was moved to write: 'When journalism is like this, journalism and literature become one. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    An Encyclopaedia of Myself

    by Jonathan Meades ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Meades ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial TimesThe 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, drunks, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook