Author Lloyd Shepherd joins the Backlisted crew in their small but functional vessel to discuss what some regard as the first ever spy novel The Riddle Of The Sands and the extraordinary life of it's author Erskine Childers. You can read more about Lloyd's plans to recreate the books journey at The Riddle Of The Sands Adventure Club page here: unbound.co.uk/books/riddle-of-the-sands

Books mentioned:

• Erskine Childers - Riddle of the Sands, War and the Arme Blanche, German Influence on British Cavalry, The Framework of Home Rule

• Lloyd Shepherd - The Detective and the Devil

• Ann Wroe - Six Facets of Light

• Joanne Harris - Chocolat, Different Class

• Arthur Ransome - We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea

• John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps

• George Tomkyns Chesney -The Battle of Dorking

Other links:

• Riddle of the Sands 1979 Trailer

• Riddle of the Sands film- Part 1 Part 2

• Arena series

• Winston Churchill- “No man has done more harm or shown more genuine malice or endeavoured to bring a greater curse upon the common people of Ireland than this strange being, actuated by a deadly and malignant hatred for the land of his birth”

• George Bradshaw- Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide