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John Grindrod

Podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour from the author of Iconicon, Concretopia and Outskirts

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Latest Issues

'Blackmail is an ugly word, Miss Mountshaft'

There are numerous references to The Good Life in my book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains. Running from 1975 to 78, the sitcom’s premise was to collide two different philosophies and lifestyles – the Goods (Tom, playe...

7 days ago
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Painting with Light with David Hockney

After I stopped hating it I loved the work of David Hockney, like it was my secret that no-one else quite saw.

The first time I encountered it was, like my experience of most things, via TV. I was 16 in 1987, and he was featured on the fir...

19 days ago
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Monstrosities Mon Amour LIVE: Bradwell Nuclear Power Station with Gillian Darley

This episode was recorded live at the Horse Hospital in London on 10 May 2026 as part of Concrete Atlantis.

In this special episode, historian and biographer Gillian Darley kidnaps not just me but a whole audience at the Horse Hospital and...

24 days ago
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Monstrosities Mon Amour: Stevenage with Gareth Edwards

Let’s ditch the Austin Maxi for a gentler way to travel: cycling round the 1950s bike lanes of Stevenage, discovering the joys of a well planned town, with Stevenage-born historian Gareth Edwards.

Stevenage in Hertfordshire was Britain’s...

2 months ago
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Out and about

At the moment I’m either talking to groups of people or lying down. I’ve yet to combine these two into a horizontal book reading, because that sounds like a euphemism.

Thank you so much to everyone who has bought a book, come to an event o...

2 months ago
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