{"product_id":"museum-without-walls","title":"Museum Without Walls","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Richly entertaining, invigorating and provoking’ \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJonathan 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis book collects fifty-four 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 what he calls ‘heavy entertainment’ strong opinions backed up by an astonishing depth of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTo read him on places, buildings, politics or cultural history is an exhilarating workout for the mind. He leaves you better informed, more alert, less gullible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘The scope of his ideas, the force of his arguments, the sheer vitality of his sentences: these things come at you like negative ions after a storm’ \u003cb\u003eRachel Cooke, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘For the last thirty years Britain’s most consistently surprising and informative writer on the built environment’ \u003cb\u003eOwen Hatherley, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘Lively, inventive and pugnacious . . . In an English literary tradition that, sweeping up Ian Nairn, John Betjeman and Charles Dickens along the way, takes us back to William Corbett’s Rural Rides’ \u003cb\u003eJonathan Glancey,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Architectural Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘An indispensible companion to one of the most original and valuable commentators on architecture working today’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding Design\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘Meades is consistently, cuttingly entertaining’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebooks of the year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eHardback: 464pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (November 2025)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e9781783528530 \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 464pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (December 2025) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eISBN: 9781783528530\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilton Square","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":58627799941504,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58627799974272,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/files\/71HhpHnxXaL._SL1500.jpg?v=1785754349","url":"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/products\/museum-without-walls","provider":"Eye Books Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}