{"product_id":"empty-wigs","title":"Empty Wigs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Prose that never ceases to dazzle’ \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEmpty Wigs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a hallucinatory tour de force. It 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. Many of its stories are bleak, perverse, harrowing. Many are tragically farcical. But the writing is neon-rich, gorgeous and baroque, funny and joyfully offensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Loudly immoral, deafeningly well written and indiscriminately offensive, Meades’s novel is a breath of filthy air in a puritanical age’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Meades finds the \u003cem\u003emot juste\u003c\/em\u003e, the striking reference, to complete every brilliant line. Is it all a bit too much? Reader, it is’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘A head-spinning turn that can quicken from high farce into deep seriousness, vaulting across time and space’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e‘A baroque artist in a mannerist age’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePaperback: 1008pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (February 2026)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN: 9781806770045\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilton Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58627810263424,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/files\/Screenshot2025-12-11at10.56.48.png?v=1785754371","url":"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/products\/empty-wigs","provider":"Eye Books Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}