Elsa Bragg News Today

The Words by the Water festival is set to make a return at Theatre by the Lake.

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph or two about the most memorable books they read this year.

Piers Plowright and Poh Sim on Hampstead Heath - Credit: Antoinette Eugster Piers Plowright was the "most amazing listener", a lover of music, books and art, and most of all the sort of man who would march a gaggle of sleepy children up Parliament Hill in order to give them a precious memory or two. The BBC radio producer died aged 83 in July, and he is remembered by his wife Poh Sim, family and friends as a figure like no other.  Piers Plowright, one of Hampsteads most distinctive characters...