Encyclopaedia of Myself

Product description Nothing wilfully invented. Memory invents unbidden.A memoir - of the author's early years in Salisbury - in the form of an encyclopaedia. A scrupulously catholic feat of recollection. It gives post-war, rural English life its splendid due. About the Author Jonathan Meades is the author of Filthy English, Peter Knows What Dick Likes and Pompey. He has written and performed in some twenty-five TV films on such subjects as the utopian avoidance of right angles, vertigo's lure, beer and Birmingham's appeal. Jonathon Meades contributed a weekly column about restaurants to The Times from 1986 to 2002.