Friends of the Bodleian

13.00–14.00 25 February 2026.
 At the Weston Library and online.

Beginning with the Devon moorland of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1899) and ending with London’s Brick Lane as described in Ajay Chowdhury’s The Waiter (2021), Christina’s talk will range from John Buchan’s Galloway Hills and Gwen Moffat’s Cape Wrath to Ellis Peters’s Shropshire, Margery Allingham’s Essex, Colin Dexter’s Oxford and Sam Llewellyn’s Isles of Scilly. She will delve into the author’s background and discovers what the setting of the book meant to them, sometimes following in their footsteps.