Lind & Lore

Stories live where roots and rivers remember.

Tales of heritage, heart, and the unseen threads that connect us across time and continents.

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A creative home

Welcome to Lind & Lore

Welcome to the story world of Babette Lind Mendy — a home for books, reflections, and creative work shaped by heritage, imagination, belonging, and the power of story.

Here, stories are more than entertainment. They can hold memory, offer refuge, open difficult conversations, and create new ways of seeing one another.

Featured Story

Babou’s Kingdom

An adventure of courage, movement, imagination, and hope.

Created for readers aged 8–12, Babou’s Kingdom explores the human experience behind war, migration, and displacement through a child’s eyes.

A tender invitation into conversations about courage, belonging, friendship and the hope a child carries forward.

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The storyteller

Meet Babette

Born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and Gambian father, Babette Lind Mendy writes stories shaped by identity, ancestry, imagination, and emotional truth.

Her work is rooted in a lifelong relationship with storytelling and a belief in the power of books to help us escape, understand, connect, and feel less alone.

About Babette

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