Museum Without Walls
Jonathan Meades
Publisher: Unbound
Summary
Jonathan Meades is the widely acclaimed author of Pompey, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen 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.Museum Without Walls has sold over 20k copies in previous editions, and was featured as a book of the year in the Financial Times and the TLS.Museum is being reissued along with two other Meades backlist titles – Pompey and The Plagiarist in the Kitchen – to mark the release of Pedro and Ricky Come Again, a new collection of the best of Meades's writing from the past thirty years. For fans of Ian Nairn (Nairn's London, Nairn's Towns), Owen Hatherley (Trans-Europe Express, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain) and Iain Sinclair (London Orbital, The Last London).