Empty wigs Birds (ornithology) From the beginning of their

From the beginning of their lives

the military surgeon concealed a lifelong secret at the heart of his identity: on his death Barry was claimed to be anatomically female and in fact a cross-dresser

the Reformation tore the western world apart

'ANNIE LENNOX

***Adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series***

Empty wigs Birds (ornithology) From the beginning of their'Empty Wigs' is a hallucinatory ride through the twentieth century that will cement Jonathan Meades as one of the great literary writers of our age. It moves from bloody Algiers in 1962 to the Marches in the late nineteenth century, from Lneburg 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.