Substacks recommended by Natasha Poliszczuk

Recommended by Natasha Poliszczuk

A multi-award winning home renovation and garden makeover expert. Home & Hort is a celebration of interior design, gardening, life, culture, crafts & seasons. Expert tips & dollops of joy from me to you.

Well Well Well with Rosamund Dean

A useful & irreverent wellness cheat sheet, by a British journalist, breast cancer survivor and sceptical optimist

A wryly funny, warm, wise newsletter for people who want to be well, but are cynical about the cult of wellness.

- Natasha Poliszczuk

Tiny Chaos by Amy Abrahams

Honest dispatches from parenthood and that middle part of life, plus a space to embrace the mess.

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

The Honest Editor

By Phoebe Morgan

Behind the books: how publishing works

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.

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.

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

A life raft for writers at sea

For anyone who has ever wanted to write well and wondered where to start.

- Natasha Poliszczuk

The Candy Club: Panic-free parenting teens & adult kids

By Lorraine Candy

Panic-free and resources advice for those with teenagers and adult children: stay calm, repair rifts, live in harmony, set boundaries, embrace the moments of messy failure and stay connected. Feel less alone.

If you have teenage girls, Lorraine's book (Mum, What's Wrong With You?) is quite possibly your bible. Her newsletter combines a handy dollop of parenting wisdom with musings on midlife.

- Natasha Poliszczuk

The Lady Novelist Writes

By Harriet Evans

An infrequent newsletter about being a proper, wading through those words, getting to the good stuff, still going after all these years lady novelist. Joy, truth bombs, author angst, book recommendations & my new quarterly event in Bath, Good Books Only.

The Inevitable Substack

By Jennifer Weiner

The Inevitable Substack is a twice-monthly newsletter about the art and craft of writing. We'll be doing close readings of fiction and nonfiction by me and by others...and hopefully, some of yours as well!

Literary Leanings

By Michelle Martin

Sharing thoughtfully curated book recommendations, reflections and tips on the reading life, and a little bit of my life here in Maine.

The Spike

By Esther

books, the general unfairness of life, great eyeliners

Creative Confidence Clinic

By Daisy Buchanan

A community for writers at every stage of their journey

Everything Is Material - Jojo's Substack

By Jojo Moyes

Mostly bits and pieces about writing, and working in film, from my 25 years in those industries. Some interviews with other writers too, as I'm fascinated by how everyone else does it.

Annie Ridout

A bestselling collection of work/life essays by Annie Ridout (non-fiction author, journalist for nationals, viral poet and Sunday Times bestselling ghostwriter)

Your Fellowes Reader

By Jessica Fellowes

Novelist Jessica Fellowes writes about whatever she wants to write about, mostly nice things that make her feel happy.

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.

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.)

We Are All Creatives

By Tasmina Perry

Notes on publishing, creative work and the lives we build around it, from Sunday Times bestselling author Tasmina Perry

LIFE UNSTYLED

By EMILY HENSON

Deep thoughts & decorating from me, Emily Henson, interior stylist, designer & 5 times published interiors author. A place to connect in a more meaningful & experimental way about interiors, creativity, ambition, failure, success, art...the lot.

The Crow's Nest

By Jennie Godfrey

A personal perspective on writing and creativity and life from a writer who is mostly all at sea, trying to make it to land.

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

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.

Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

By Ann Kennedy Smith

Exploring books, literary lives and Cambridge women’s history

Not Being Funny But by Emma Rowley

Deep dives into the shallow end. A newsletter on trends, shifts, writing and personal reflections from a Sunday Times bestselling author, ghostwriter and culture vulture.

Crone Sandwich

By Catherine Newman

A weird newsletter about all the midlife things: kids, parents, food, sex, holidays, rage, and sweating at night, by the author of Waiting for Birdy and We All Want Impossible Things.

Nothing Important

By Laetitia Maklouf

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

Conversations on Love with Natasha Lunn

An email newsletter investigating love, one conversation at a time