An Encyclopaedia of Myself
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An Encyclopaedia of Myself

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An Encyclopaedia of Myself

About this book

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014

'A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece' Financial Times

The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades's detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, drunks, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury had two industries: God and the Cold War. For the child, delight is to be found everywhere – in the intense observation of adult frailties, in landscapes and prepubescent sex, in calligraphy and in rivers.

This memoir is an engrossing portrait of a disappeared provincial England, a time and place unpeeled with gruesome relish.

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Publisher
Fourth Estate
Year
2014
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9780007568918
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Abuser, Sexual
  6. Access to the Unknown
  7. Anal Penetration
  8. Ayleswade Road
  9. Barnett, Miss
  10. Blue Spot
  11. Bobie
  12. Buckhorn Weston
  13. Close the Door they’re coming in the Window
  14. Comanche
  15. Earliest Memory
  16. Edwards, Mrs
  17. Eels
  18. Egg Beaten in Milk
  19. Harris
  20. Kalu
  21. Knee Ligaments
  22. Laker
  23. Major, Bogus
  24. Major Braithwaite
  25. Major Christian
  26. Major Ferguson and Major Veale
  27. Major Howells
  28. Major Johnstone and Major Corlett
  29. Major Mccoll
  30. Major Meades
  31. Marden, Cyril
  32. Market Place
  33. Martin, Doctor
  34. Names
  35. New Canal
  36. No Food, Future Food
  37. Old Manor
  38. Old Mill
  39. Osmington Mills
  40. Owlett’s End
  41. Qualifications
  42. Richmond, Daniel & Bunty
  43. Scutt, Eric
  44. Searle, Mr
  45. Songs: Diana
  46. Songs: Johnny Remember Me
  47. Songs: Singing The Blues
  48. Stewart? Stuart? John?
  49. Subterranean
  50. Yuri
  51. List of Illustrations
  52. Footnotes
  53. Also by Jonathan Meades
  54. About the Publisher

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