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Literature & Fiction

JONATHAN MEADES

Contemporary

Vintage

Jonathan Meades has been the restaurant critic of THE TIMES since 1986 and his column has passed into legend. Opinionated, unsparing of mediocrity, hugely knowledgeable, it is one of the few that chefs themselves read: Meades really knows about what food should look and taste like. Of the thousand or so restaurants he has visited in that time, this guide contains 650 establishments that are still in business. Each is marked out of ten and typical dishes, d?cor, competence, service and price are briefly assessed.  Authoritative and yet highly personal, this is the restaurant guide all food lovers have been waiting for.

"Times" Restaurant Guide

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Cassell Illustrated, a division of the Octopus Publishing Group

When Shorty Mathews leaves prison after two years he goes to visit 'nice little bit' Alice, only to find that she has been strangled. Shorty panics and goes on the run, leaving the city behind and hitching rides with lorry drivers, going through various adventures before returning to London.

They Drive by Night

James, Curtis

London Books

Unbound

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

Biographies & Memoirs

Fourth Estate

Museum Without Walls

<p>'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."</p>

Essays & Correspondence

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