Substacks recommended by India Knight

Recommended by India Knight

I love writing and I love an audience. I will be live writing my new novel The Pemberley Papers here and sending a weekly newsletter with glimpses of play rehearsals, script conferences, festivals and all the fun bits of this writer's life.

Cultural Capital

By James Marriott

A newsletter about ideas, literature and the arts

Horticulturalish

Enthusiastic amateur gardener prone to non sequiturs.

That Final Scene

By Sophie

The newsletter 35K+ monthly readers choose to talk about films. TFS connects cinema to the conversations that matter now. Weekly essays that make you the smartest voice in every party, plus monthly watchlists worth your time.

The Seedling by Willow Crossley

Finding Joy Everyday

Flowers, food, fashion - just lovely

- India Knight

If you like the idea of a carefully chosen, tested mix of food, restaurant and travel-related gems, with interviews, thoughts and recipes woven in, I'm hoping you'll love my newsletter. Please do join me on the journey...

Lettre Recommandée

By Lauren Collins

Franco-Americana by Lauren Collins

Lauren Collins writes for The New Yorker from Paris, where she lives. This is her always-interesting, often-hilarious dispatch.

- India Knight

Broad with Polly Vernon

A writer, a boxer and a Botox-er. "Unapologetically writes things we are all a bit too scared to commit to thinking - never mind, writing." @styledbyUna

Wooden City

By Isaac Rangaswami

A newsletter about London

Wonderful newsletter about the less well known bits of London, written with real love & knowledge

- India Knight

The Dolce Vita Diaries

By Skye McAlpine

Delicious things to eat, wear, cook and do. A lifestyle scrapbook (of sorts) by Skye McAlpine.

Onwards and Sideways! By Sophia Money-Coutts

A newsletter about the silliness of (my) life, featuring everyday mishaps, telly, books, bad jokes and perhaps occasional observations about the Royal family (how DOES she get her hair so shiny etc). Cerebral stuff like that.

Pure charm and wit, what more could you want?

- India Knight

ROCKET & SQUASH | A Cook's Digest | by Ed Smith

A digest of good things: recipe columns including thrifty weeknight dishes and sides to build your meal around; 'Supplemental', my roundup of the best recipes in papers and on the web; and more!

Such good recipes and round-ups.

- India Knight

Joie De Vivre

By Lisa Dawson

An edit by me, Lisa Dawson, of interior loves, vintage finds, easy recipes, travel, thoughts and things that make me happy. Author of Resourceful Living.

Stroopwaffled

By Jennifer Barnett

Once upon a time I worked in magazines. Now I’m writing about life as an Expat in Amsterdam.

Just subscribe.

- India Knight

Laura Thompson’s Substack

By laura thompson

Writing on writers - Nancy, Agatha, various Elizabeths and more. And on other things, from classical ballet to classic murder trials. Whatever interests me, and I hope you also.

At the Table with Rukmini Iyer

By Rukmini Iyer’s At the Table

Come and join me at the table for chat about cooking, recipes, books and more. (Roasting Tins may feature.)

A Photographer's Life in Provence

By Joanna Maclennan

I am an Interiors, lifestyle, travel and portrait photographer living in Provence. Come and join me on my journey as I discover the world of Substack! A dose of photography, Interiors and travel in France and beyond.

The Trowel

By Rebecca and Claire

The no BS guide to the products worth owning, the relationships worth having, and the healing worth doing....from the Sunday Times bestselling author of 'Why Did You Stay? A memoir about self worth'.

Heaven. You'll see.

- India Knight

A Considered Space

By Eleanor

A design journalist sharing curated edits of good-looking things and places, plus honest observations about life and work. I save all my best finds for Substack.

Witness Marks by Melissa Harrison

A monthly postcard from the English countryside: nature, the rural year, and village life. Book news and other updates, too.

The very very best nature (and other) writing.

- India Knight

Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position

"Just to spite the world, don’t cry! Just to spite the world, only laugh, only laugh!" - Sholom Aleichem. Amen, Brother.

None funnier. But with heart.

- India Knight

The Time Foragers' Club

By Helen C Stark

Time to meet, celebrate the seasons and playfully create together.

Mad About The House by Kate Watson-Smyth

Learn how to create beautiful interiors and find your own design style from the best-selling author and founder of the award-winning blog madaboutthehouse.com

Fantastic interiors newsletters, bursting with info and knowledge.

- India Knight

Catherine is under pressure

By Catherine Phipps

Your guide to changing your life with a pressure cooker.

She's the pressure cooker/ Instant Pot queen and she's changed my cooking life.

- India Knight

Pen and Spoon

By Sue Quinn

Effortless recipes and dispatches from the front line of food by award-winning food writer and cook book author Sue Quinn. Latest book: Second Helpings: delicious dishes to transform your leftovers.

Wonderful recipes, wonderful writing.

- India Knight

Sixburnersue

By Susie Middleton

Join author Susie Middleton in the pursuit of serenity, beauty, and joy in the garden and the kitchen on Martha's Vineyard.

Receipt from the Bookshop

By Katie

My weekly post - Receipt from the Bookshop - is written in real time from my award-winning independent bookshop in St. Annes-on-Sea, UK. Paid subscribers also get an additional weekly essay/book review and access to my book club.

Absolute heaven.

- India Knight

Six Things

By Lev Parikian

Writings, findings, amusements, nonsense – six at a time.

Out of the Blue

By Mari Andrew

By writer and artist Mari Andrew, exploring life's full range of colors

Books + Bits

By Pandora Sykes

A Pandora's Box of books and culture recs

Indispensable.

- India Knight

THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

By Hanif Kureishi

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

Trish Deseine's Substack

By Chez moi with Trish Deseine

Food and life in France

Lickedspoon with Debora Robertson

By Debora Robertson 🦀

Welcome to my newsletter. This is where I share stories from my seaside village in the South West of France, my trips to the market, weekly recipes, and updates on our house renovation. Most of it’s free, and will always be free.

I think this was the first Substack I ever subscribed to. Fantastic recipes, house renovating, life in France as a former Londoner.

- India Knight

Introvert Drawing Club

By Beth Spencer

Playful drawing prompts and practice sessions. 🌻 Art tips & techniques to explore your creativity with a fun, encouraging community.

Pure joy

- India Knight

Mark Diacono's Abundance

Food and everything connected, by James Beard shortlisted and multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.

Food, gardens, vegetables, writing, photography, stories - he is fantastic at all of them.

- India Knight

Keep Calm & Cook On

By Julia Turshen

a twice weekly newsletter to help you feel calm + empowered in your kitchen from a bestselling cookbook author 🧡 // tuesdays are lunch recipes! thursdays are a free-for-all!

I love Julia Turshen so much that it's almost creepy.

- India Knight

What's Left

By Virginia Chamlee

Secondhand sourcing & shopping tips and musings on interior design and culture. From vintage shopping expert and "Big Thrift Energy" author Virginia Chamlee.

Eat This, Drink That, Live Well

By Fiona Beckett

News, views and tips from a lifetime's cooking, tasting and travelling from former Guardian wine columnist Fiona Beckett

Beyond Bloomsbury

By Victoria K. Walker

An ongoing anthology of historical artist and writer biographies and curated gallery and library collections.

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

Always interesting and thought provoking, plus she has brilliant links on Sundays.

- India Knight

The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson

I’m a RHS Chelsea gold medallist and author sharing the simplest ways to garden. Join the community for weekly posts and chats, design guidance and gardening tips led by one of the UK's top garden designers.

THE best gardening newsletter bar none. Incredibly generous, helpful, useful advice whether you're an old hand or a complete novice. Essential.

- India Knight

Things Worth Knowing with Farrah Storr

By Farrah @Substack

A smart new corner of the internet to talk fashion, feelings and creativity with the former editor-in-chief of ELLE & Cosmopolitan. Plus join my invite-only community. We're nice...I promise.

Time Travel Kitchen

By Jolene Handy

Food, History, Chicago, New York and Beyond.

A Tiny Apt.

By Christene Barberich

Home + small spaces, style + vintage things, and essays from the founder/former editor of Refinery29...welcome🥤.

Dinner: A Love Story

By Jenny Rosenstrach

A newsletter devoted to reading, eating, and family dinner, however you define "family" and however you define "dinner." Written by the bestselling author of the Dinner: A Love Story book series including, most recently "The Weekday Vegetarians."

Luca Turin on perfume etc.

By Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Perfume reviews and other things

IT'S LUCA TURIN. Dazzling.

- India Knight

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

Come for the salads, stay for the writing, become slightly obsessed with the author. She has a very fine dog.

- India Knight

The Ruffian

By Ian Leslie

Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.

A total must. He is so clever and so interesting about absolutely everything.

- India Knight

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.