Charles Lambert

I'm catching the train to and from Rome three times a week at the moment. The service is much the same as it always was: trains invar...

I spent a couple of weeks this summer in South Africa. If you'd like to read some of my thoughts about the country, click here .

Today's my birthday and this is the cake that Michelle McGrane has made to celebrate it. I'm beyond touched. (And if you don'...

Rob Redman, founder of The Fiction Desk , has been asked to guest edit this month's blog for  Context Travel , a 'network of archite...

Well, it's all over, for a while at least. Amanda Knox is back in Seattle, Raffaele Sollecito is at his family home near Bari, Rudy Gued...

These small white pills are homoeopathic remedies for back-ache. Anyone who follows this blog will know that I'm not a fan of alternativ...

A couple of days ago a site called listaouting published the first of a series of promised lists. The list contains the names of ten Italian...

This is Tim Parks, one of my favourite writers, looking rather like a wiser, crisp-free version of Gary Lineker. You can find out more about...

Every fortnight, from June 2010 to June 2011, a copy of the London Review of Books fell onto the stone floor of my house in Italy. It lay th...

We went to see the temporary exhibition at the Beaubourg yesterday. It's called Paris - Delhi - Bombay and contains the work of around 5...