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Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades is a British novelist and writer on food, architecture and culture, as well as an innovative broadcaster. He is perhaps best known for his television appearances on Abroad with Jonathan Meades and its sequel series. His books include The Illustrated Atlas of the World’s Great Buildings (1980), Filthy English (1984), Architectural Expressions (2001), Incest and Morris Dancing (2002), The Fowler Family Business (2002) and Pompey (2003).
FILTHY ENGLISH
These short stories mark the start of a brilliant and black literary career.
Publication date: UK 5th May 2003
THE FOWLER FAMILY BUSINESS
‘One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades.’ Stephen Fry An 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.
Publication date: UK 3rd Feb 2003