Empty Wigs - Jonathan Meades Fiction a terrible knocking at the

a terrible knocking at the front gate summons Adunni back to her home village

" GENEVA LEE

It offers examples of different offerings and rituals that can be performed to approve the sanctity of the home

Funny and utterly compelling' Jonathan Ross Having cut his teeth in music journalism

Empty Wigs - Jonathan Meades Fiction a terrible knocking at the`Go toEmpty Wigsfor prose that never ceases to dazzle, for an extended holiday from contemporary pieties and to disgrace yourself with laughter' Paul Genders,Literary ReviewEmpty Wigsis a hallucinatory ride through the twentieth century that will cement Jonathan Meades as one of the great imaginative writers of our age. It moves from bloody Algiers in 1962 to the Welsh Marches in the late nineteenth century, from Lneburg Heath to suburban southern