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Joe Swift
Noel Kingsbury
Matthew Pottage
Pick whichever title makes you curious. That's the only sorting system we recommend.
What will arrive, and when
Saturday mornings — Pick of the Week. One of our writers on what they're reading, visiting, growing and cooking.
During the week — a piece from the Collective. Enough to know whether this is your kind of place.
Nothing else. No sequences, no nudges, no "just checking in".
Who writes here
Alan Titchmarsh, Joe Swift, Tom Stuart-Smith, Arit Anderson, Ann-Marie Powell and fourteen more, plus guests — Sarah Raven, Adam Frost, Huw Richards. All writing without a brief, a word count, or anyone asking them to keep it light.
When you want more
Full membership adds three essays a week, the eight-hundred-piece archive, and the audio of everything — each essay read aloud by the person who wrote it. £7 a month, or £70 a year.
No rush. The Saturday letter comes either way.
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