Lindsay Bamfield

My mother introduced me to literature with stories. Bedtime stories and anytime stories. My early favourites included the Beatrix Potter ...

The Reader by Mary Cassatt, 1877 Dr Read’s blood pressure was far too high. Nurse Gorgeous took off the monitor and hustled him into th...

Of the 62.5 books I read this year, here are my top 10 reads of 2016 - plus one - in the order in which I read them. They are not all recent...

The first Christmas card in 1843. I love sending and receiving Christmas cards and I still string them up around my living room as we di...

I signed up for my first writing class about 10 years ago. The session began with a writing exercise lasting around 10-15 minutes followed b...

In 2002 The Finchley Society published a book of local people's recollections. It was always on the cards that a second volume would...

Those who follow my sporadic blog will know that travelling and books feature quite often. I haven't achieved my aim of travelling to ev...