Substacks recommended by Mark Jones

Recommended by Mark Jones

The Travel Wire

By James Clark

A weekly newsletter of the best travel reads.

A really thoughtful selection from the latest travel blogs. It needed doing, and it's done very well.

- Mark Jones

Nonfiction Storytelling with Jon Ronson

How to write narrative nonfiction books and podcasts, plus a place for all my work that won't be a book or a podcast.

A.N. Wilson

My personal Substack. If you have enjoyed my books or articles you will find stuff here which interests you. Recent posts include a lecture on Eliot given at Little Gidding, and memories of Iris Murdoch.

Home & Place Writing

By Yasmin Chopin

A newsletter for people who write about Home and Place. Free fortnightly posts help you find new ways to think about place. Browse the archive, rich with ideas and inspiration.

Messages from an anxious place

By Mark Jones and Rhys Jones

A dialogue about living with anxiety and helping others to understand it

Travel: NE Where

By Narina Exelby

For – and often about – women who travel, and other curious people.

Narina is that rare thing among travel writers – one who can give you useful information and entertain you while she's about it.

- Mark Jones

British Beer Breaks

We join the dots between beer and travel

What an interesting idea - observations about different adjectives of British life through the best lens there is - a pint glass.

- Mark Jones

Chris Arnade Walks the World

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

Critical Conditions by Wayne Robins

Storytelling about rock pop music and culture through decades of interviews, reviews, and feature stories, shaken in a blender. Might be Steely Dan, Dylan, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder. Might be Laura Nyro, Tori Amos, the Ramones.

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

A Word to the Wise

By George Pitcher

Wisdom from the Old World to the New

Friendly Atheist

By Hemant Mehta

Commentary about religion and politics, centered around atheism.

Talking Travel Writing

By Lottie & Steph

Demystifying the travel media

Tales of the Orient by Simon Ostheimer

Original stories about Asia by a British Hongkonger

BIG by Matt Stoller

The history and politics of monopoly power.

Movable Worlds

By Emily Ding

Letters from Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, or places in between: trying to make sense of a changing world and our place in it – by reading, walking, documenting.

Marklands

Recommended by Mark Jones