I’m a UK-based journalist - I’ve written for The Sunday Times for the past thirty-odd years. I’m also a novelist and non-fiction author, published by Penguin Random House. My most recent book, HOME (based on this very Substack), is a bestseller about making your house feel like you rather than like everyone else’s Pinterest board.

I moved from London to the country about a decade ago. I live in Suffolk in England, in an 16th century house, with dogs, hens, goats and humans. Hello!

This newsletter is the thing I most love writing. It started as a cross between my diary and my Notes app - books, food, interiors, shopping, things I’ve noticed and liked, observations about the week - and has grown into a community of 85,000 people with the best comments section on the internet. HOME is currently the number 1 bestselling Design newsletter globally.

I post every week for paid subscribers, and occasionally for free. When I first thought of writing a newsletter, I was going to call it Things I’d Tell You About If We Knew Each Other. That’s still very much the idea.