Substacks recommended by India Knight

Recommended by India Knight

Big Salad

By Joanna Goddard

Life advice, fun finds, and dating gossip — from Joanna Goddard and the Cup of Jo team.

Luca Turin on perfume etc.

By Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Perfume reviews and other things

IT'S LUCA TURIN. Dazzling.

- India Knight

Cultural Capital

By James Marriott

A newsletter about ideas, literature and the arts

Stroopwaffled

By Jennifer Barnett

Once upon a time I worked in magazines. Writing about life as an American in Amsterdam.

Just subscribe.

- India Knight

The Time Foragers' Club

By Helen C Stark

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

Time Travel Kitchen

By Jolene Handy

Food, History,Kitchens, Cookbooks, Chicago, New York and Beyond.

Nothing Important

By Laetitia Maklouf

Superficial things going on in my home and garden, and in my head...absolutely none of it important.

Laetitia writes like a dream on gardens and much else.

- 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

P.S. by Plum Sykes

From the desk of the Original Voguette

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 regular takes from readers to chew on.

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.

savour by Alice Vincent

notes on the delicious things in life: womanhood, words and overlooked daily wonders

By Daisy Goodwin

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.

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

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

The Wardrobe Edit

By Anna Newton

Thoughts on style, shopping and making the most of your wardrobe.

Six Things

By Lev Parikian

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

Yeah, no. Not Happening

By Karen Karbo

The newsletter for people who long to say no

The Seedling

By Willow Crossley

Finding Joy Everyday

Flowers, food, fashion - just lovely

- India Knight

Out of the Blue

By Mari Andrew

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

Beyond Bloomsbury

By Victoria K. Walker

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

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

Mad About The House by Kate Watson-Smyth

A weekly newsletter about interior decoration and finding your style.

Fantastic interiors newsletters, bursting with info and knowledge.

- India Knight

Changes with Annie Macmanus

A curious exploration of my changing life and yours. Come join the dance...

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

Anna Eleri Hart

By Anna Hart

Twice weekly free to read posts on learning to dress, shopping finds and beauty reviews. Expect spelling mistakes and sarcasm.

A Considered Space

By Eleanor

Obsessively curated edits and recommendations for design lovers, plus unfiltered writing about life and home. Come on in!

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

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

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.

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

The Dolce Vita Diaries

By Skye McAlpine

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

Whatever Works

By Naomi Alderman

unapologetically intellectual, infectiously enthusiastic and painfully sincere (but: funny). expect: considered positions, close readings, heartfelt recommendations and unstoppable blurtings-out of ideas as they come to me

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

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

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

- India Knight

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

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.

Alex T Smith’s Pigeon Post

By AlexTSmith

Words! Pictures! Jolly Happenings!

juliet nicolson

By Juliet Nicolson

I’m a writer, a reader, a mother and a grandmother

Books + Bits

By Pandora Sykes

A Pandora's Box of books and culture recs

Indispensable.

- India Knight

Fancy

By Rebecca

A special cupboard on Substack filled with beauty, knick knacks and my nasty little opinions

Heaven. You'll see.

- India Knight

The Clearing by Katherine May

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

Witness Marks by Melissa Harrison

A monthly postcard from the English countryside: nature, the rural year, and a village newsletter. Book news and other personal updates at the top.

The very very best nature (and other) writing.

- India Knight

Douceur Diaries

By Sarah Clark

Insider edits, tips, thoughts and musings from editor and stylist - and former Condé Nast Fashion Editor - Sarah Clark. Subscribe for full access to weekly expertly curated edits and the archive of past newsletters.

Horticulturalish

Enthusiastic amateur gardener prone to non sequiturs.

Scandi Delights

By Antonia

Through this newsletter, I hope to share my observations and discoveries within the Scandinavian bubble.

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.)

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.

A Tiny Apt.

By Christene Barberich

Home + small spaces, style + outfit musings + lots of thrifting/vintage from the founder/former EIC of Refinery29. Welcome 🥤.

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Not really “about” salad. But salad is the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Recipes, lots of them—and plenty else besides.

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

- India Knight