In 2019 I went mudlarking with Lara Maiklem near Blackfriars, ahead of the publication of her enthralling first book, Mudlarking. Dedicated to the river—“my friend, companion and confidante ...

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Nicola also recommends books such as Nick Stevens and Jason Sandy’s Thames Mudlarking: Searching For London’s Lost Treasures and Ted Sandling’s A Mudlark’s Treasures: London in Fragments.

British writer Lara Maiklem has been mudlarking on the banks of the Thames since 2012, and it’s astonishing what the river bank throws up. This, her second book on the subject, covers a year.

Her new book, "A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season", is published this week. Derek Jarman, 1995 I have always been a fan of Derek Jarman (I even met him once) and I come back to ...