# John Grindrod
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john grindrod is an author of books about British architecture. He is from Croydon, London.
== Works ==
His first book Concretopia (2013) covers architecture in the post-war consensus period.His second book Outskirts (2017) is a mix of memoir and investigation of the Metropolitan Green Belt, which surrounds New Addington where Grindrod's family lived.
Target Book Club - Recordings of the Day - Part Two: Robert Shearman, John Grindrod, Nev Fountain & Paul Quinn
Robert Shearman reads from 'The Chimes of Midnight'
John Grindrod 'Terror of the Blurboids'
Nev Fountain 'The Policeman's Face Peeled Away...'
Paul Quinn 'I see all the rumours about you are true...' - Trigger Warning
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3.12 John Grindrod tells his story
It's time for another trip into The Library of Impossible Things.
This episode, I'm joined by the marvellous author John Grindrod.
What object will John bring to The Library? What was John's one and only convention experience like? How many times did he borrow the Stones of Blood book from his loca…
Milton Keynes
It's built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it's got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing? And a university where there are no students on campus?
With architectural historian John Grindrod, Ros Taylor tells the story of Milton Ke…
The Amazing Technicolour Green Belt
Charles Goode hosted an event in Birmingham in September 2025 to mark the launch of his book, “The Green Belt, Housing Crises and Planning Systems” (link below). Charles invited Catriona Riddell, Mike Best and James Corbet Burcher to join him at that event and Sam Stafford invited the four of them …
Field Ramble with Madeleine Dunnigan and John Grindrod
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This month Sam talks to Madeleine Dunnigan about her debut novel Jean. It is set over the long, blazing summer of 1976 at Compton Manor, an isolated boarding school on the south downs. An oubliette, attended by a ragged assortment of boys who have all run out of road elsewhere. Je…
Little Atoms 991 - John Grindrod's Tales of the Suburbs
John Grindrod is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain, Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize for UK travel and nature writing), and Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Br…
Ep 33: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains ft. John Grindrod
Social historian of modern places John Grindrod returns to the podcast! John has written a new book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains which explores the hidden LGBTQ+ histories of suburbia through personal stories and archive material from the 20th century.
During the episode …
226. Suburbia
"The word ‘suburbia’ sort of evokes a very fixed idea of a place that is identikit, that all suburbs are the same, that within the suburb everything is the same, that all people are the same, all experiences are the same," says social historian and author John Grindrod, "I think it has this kind of…
Ep 95: Joelle Taylor and Ren
This episode, we saw Joelle Taylor give an outstanding performed reading of her new book Maryville. We then watched a panel discussion with the rapper / singer-songwriter Ren and his business team.
Rifa is reading Samantha Harvey's Booker prizewinning novel Orbital, while Chris is reading John Grin…
Episode 37: Milton Keynes: The Future that Could Have Been
In post-war Britain, the drive to build new housing and a better world led to a number of plans focused on creating modern towns. The boldest and most visionary of these was to be Milton Keynes, a city from nothing.
Today, Milton Keynes is either famous, or infamous, depending on your perspective …
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