John Grindrod grew up on “the last road in London” on Croydon's New Addington housing estate, surrounded by the Green Belt. He is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain, described by the Independent on Sunday as “a new way of looking at modern Britain”.
He has written for the Guardian, Financial Times, Big Issue and The Modernist and has worked as a bookseller and publisher for over 25 years. He runs the popular website dirtymodernscoundrel.com and his latest book is Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt.
