The Curiously Specific Book Club

Podcasts

Forget Downton Abbey or The Crown, we use classic novels to guide you through the Britain of today and yesterday. Every podcast, Lloyd & Tim – two funny book-loving blokes – take you on a walk or a road trip, using a well-known novel as the only...

Episodes

John Buchan’s THE 39 STEPS Part 2: hit the beach at North Foreland, Kent, in search of dastardly German spies

John Buchan’s THE 39 STEPS Part 1: experience the thrill of a chase through Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

Margot Bennett’s THE WIDOW OF BATH Part Two: a North Foreland discovery

Margot Bennett’s THE WIDOW OF BATH Part One: Shady goings-on in Ramsgate

Geoffrey Household’s ROGUE MALE Part 2: pursuit across Dorset – tracking down a secret holloway-hideaway

Geoffrey Household’s ROGUE MALE Part 1: pursuit across London – Hurlingham steps to the Aldwych tube

AA Milne’s WHEN WE WE VERY YOUNG Part 2: the ghost of a golf course, and a swan called Pooh

AA Milne’s WHEN WE VERY YOUNG Part 1: down to Buckingham Palace with Alice

Alice Oswald’s DART Part 2: from Buckfast Abbey to the Mew Stone via a derelict dairy and a boatyard

Alice Oswald’s DART Part 1: Dartmoor to Buckfastleigh on foot, in a car – and on a steam train!

Edward Thomas’s IN PURSUIT OF SPRING Part Two: From Rudge to the Quantocks

Edward Thomas’s IN PURSUIT OF SPRING Part One: From Clapham to Salisbury

Nell Dunn’s UP THE JUNCTION Part 2: drill rap, sweets and trains on the Winstanley Estate, Battersea

Nell Dunn’s UP THE JUNCTION Part 1: from glamorous Chelsea to industrial Battersea

Hanif Kureishi’s THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA Part Two: Go West, Young Man

Hanif Kureishi’s THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA Part One: From Bromley to Penge

Angela Carter’s WISE CHILDREN Part 2: drinking, dancing & writing in Clapham, London

Angela Carter’s WISE CHILDREN Part 1: the lost theatres, music halls & cinemas of South London

Ruth Rendell’s FROM DOON WITH DEATH Part Two: The body in the woods

Ruth Rendell’s FROM DOON WITH DEATH Part One: Searching for Kingsmarkham