John Grindrod

Well you’re no better than you ought to be…

You’re supposed to be doing the garden x

John Grindrod being interviewed by Luke Turner, both looking frankly delicious.

Cover of John Grindrod’s ‘Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains’

Details of Tales of the Suburbs Tour

Oooh that @grindrod.bsky.social’s only gone & done a book tour for Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains @faberbooks.bsky.social. Saw him swapping suburban secrets with that @luketurner.bsky.social at CharX Foyles, no less. Get the Gaybourhood gossip at www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events

Lovely to see you and thank you for coming!

Really hoping you enjoy it! x

Oh Michael, hope you are doing okay and enjoy the book when it turns up

What an absolute pleasure it was getting to talk to you about your suburban experiences Benjamin x

Thank you lovely

Johns book - Tales of the Suburbs - comes out tomorrow, and I’m very honoured to say that I am one of the contributors to this fantastic project.
Huge thanks to John for this great opportunity 🙏🏼

You could tell I was interrupted half way through writing that, can’t you?

Alternative version of an 80s Neighbourhood Watch logo saying Gaybourhood Watch, with a series of queer characters, printed on a mug

Alternative version of an 80s Neighbourhood Watch logo saying Gaybourhood Watch, with a series of queer characters, printed on a t-shirt

So much came up about Neighbourhood Watch kept coming up when I was researching Tales of the Suburb that we made these

Loved putting this together!

Fantastic!

‘Can I get the washing on the line before I speak to Attitude magazine?’ feels very on brand right now

Forthcoming events by the author of Tales of the Suburbs — John Grindrod.

So looking forward to the first Tales of the Suburbs event tonight, at Foyles with the brilliant @luketurner.bsky.social www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events

Thank you so much! I really love that sort of thing too. It was a delight to write, I could have carried on for pages more...

Thank you! So much fun to write

Not a real doctor…

Yes! How odd

Very odd that was the Clothes Show theme…

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Thank you so much!

Whoop!

Thank you so much! x

Interviewing Mat for Tales of the Suburbs was an utter delight

And I was honoured to be able to share your story x

An absolute dream to write this for @thequietus.com about Pet Shop Boys, suburbia and the city

I imagined they were going to wrap it in a giant red rose

Great, another podcast to listen to!

(That there's an episode just titled 'Swindon' had me subscribing)

Gaby was amazing