Pompey

Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. He is the author of Filthy English, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, The Fowler Family Business, Museum Without Walls and Pompey. In 2014, he published the first volume of his autobiography, An Encyclopaedia of Myself. His many films for the BBC include Abroad in Britain, Meades Eats, Meades on France, The Joy of Essex, Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness and, most recently, Franco Building.

'If Meades was a racehorse you'd be calling for a stewards' enquiry. There's something in his feed which gives him the lot' Iain Sinclair, Kaleidoscope 'There is no doubt that Pompey is the product of a brilliant mind: one would not, however, wish to dine with its author' Nick Hornby, TLS 'Disgusting and brilliant – should earn Meades justifiable comparison to Joyce, Celine, Pynchon' Vogue