{"product_id":"empty-wigs-paperback","title":"Empty Wigs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Meades\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Go to Empty Wigs for prose that never ceases to dazzle, for an extended holiday from contemporary pieties and to disgrace yourself with laughter\" -- Paul Genders, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpty Wigs\u003c\/i\u003e is a hallucinatory ride through the twentieth century that will cement Jonathan Meades as one of the great imaginative writers of our age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt moves from bloody Algiers in 1962 to the Welsh Marches in the late nineteenth century, from Lüneburg Heath to suburban southern England. Its characters are damned and doomed. They exert free will so make terrible choices. Their appetites are base. Their lives are without end. They lurch to extremes. From euthanasia to terrorism and political assassination, with secrets and betrayals, great gothic houses and pseudo-scientific experiments, Empty Wigs is a vast compendium of tales from the jungle of existence which show humankind at its most abject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of its stories are bleak, perverse, harrowing. Many are tragically farcical. But the writing is neon-rich, gorgeous and baroque, funny and joyfully offensive. Told through frames within frames, mazes within mazes, colliding narratives and quick changing moods, \u003ci\u003eEmpty Wigs \u003c\/i\u003eis a late modern masterpiece and a return to the novel's origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Meades\u003c\/b\u003e' books include three works of fiction -\u003ci\u003e Filthy English\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePompey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fowler Family Business\u003c\/i\u003e - and several collections including\u003ci\u003e Museum Without Walls\u003c\/i\u003e, which received thirteen nominations as a book of the year in 2012. \u003ci\u003eAn Encyclopaedia of Myself\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2014. His first and only cookbook, \u003ci\u003eThe Plagiarist in the Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2017. \u003ci\u003ePedro and Ricky Come Again\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) was the sequel to\u003ci\u003e Peter Knows What Dick Likes\u003c\/i\u003e (1988). Meades has written and performed in more than sixty highly acclaimed television films on predominantly topographical subjects such as French nationalism, the Baltic and dictators' architecture. He also creates artknacks and treyfs. Treyf means impure, not kosher: it defines his approach to all writing, film and art. He lives in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376866345099,"sku":"9781806770045","price":32.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/a6imgTqoSe9781806770045.webp?v=1781797804","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/empty-wigs-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}