600. Chatham High Street

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Quoted extensively throughout the episode as the hosts read passages from Defoe's descriptions of Rochester and Chatham, noting it was published in 1724 and was his best-selling book after Robinson Crusoe.

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Mentioned briefly as the only Defoe book that outsold his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain.

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Discussed in connection with Restoration House in Rochester, which Dickens reportedly used as the inspiration for Miss Havisham's Satis House. Dominic also mentioned winning a school reading competition four years in a row with its opening passage.

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Mentioned as Dickens' last novel, which he never completed, noting that Rochester is the setting (called 'Cloisterham' in the book) and that the character John Jasper lived on one of the gates below Rochester Castle.