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Natalie Whittle

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Interiors
    It’s time to resist the tyranny of Instagram interiors

    Algorithms feed us more of the styles we already like, so it all looks painfully familiar. We need to mount a strategic attack against ‘Instagrammabiquity’

    A modern farmhouse kitchen with blue cabinetry, wooden countertops, and industrial-style shelves, displayed on a smartphone screen as an Instagram post
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    FT SeriesDon’t miss – HTSI’s most popular stories
    The big noise about tiny microphones

    Mini microphones are everywhere, but who is listening?

    Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke at the premiere of Leave the World Behind at Paris Theater in New York in November 2023
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The tale of Beatrix Potter and Mr McIntosh

    Was a Highland postman the inspiration for Mr McGregor?

  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    HTSI
    The late-bloom success of Lorna Robertson and Andrew Cranston

    The partners share neighbouring studios in Glasgow. He makes a mess – but he does put back the paint lids

    Lorna Roberston (left) and Andrew Cranston in their respective studios in Glasgow
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson — mischief in little England

    A collection of farcical and far-out short stories set in Yorkshire reveal the suffocating and small-mindedness of life in a small town

    A dark street at night
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    Fashion
    The evolution of the little black dress

    Its use as a simple sartorial standby vastly undersells the LBD’s influence and creativity

  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    Fashion
    My search for the ‘perfect’ all-round swimsuit

    Natalie Whittle looks for a costume that works for both the spa and freezing British beaches

    A line of women in red swimsuits
  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    Style
    Beyond Amazon — curated marketplaces get sophisticated

    A new breed of online stores is using smart filtering, consumer reviews and tech stacks to help overwhelmed shoppers sift through choices

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    Urban planning
    Fifteen-minute cities are suffering their 15 minutes of fame

    The concept has undergone a social media acid bath and emerged, bedraggled, as a toxic hashtag

    Protesters catch up during a march against 15-minute cities in Oxford, England, last week
  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    HTSI
    ‘Where in the world can you get a whisky like this?’

    Ardross Distillery may be a small Highlands newcomer, but its ambitions are mighty

    Sandy Jamieson, Ardross’s master distiller, prepares samples of the Ardross new make
  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    Saha by Cho Nam-Joo — a sinkhole for misfortune

    An oppressive dystopia set in Korea that reflects real-world problems

    Apartments
  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    InterviewClare Smyth
    Clare Smyth: ‘A crisis teaches you how adaptable you are’

    Founder of upscale London restaurant pivoted operations to survive the Covid lockdowns

    Clare Smyth, the Michelin triple-star chef patron of Core Restaurant in London
  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    Emergency by Daisy Hildyard — a complicated hymn to nature

    Set during the pandemic, this thoughtful novel offers an inquisition into an ecosystem of change and renewal

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka — the memory of water

    Julie Otsuka’s poignant third novel tells the story of an avid swimmer succumbing to dementia

    A swimmer doing laps alone in a pool
  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    We Were Young — a timely tale of a Dublin drifter

    Niamh Campbell paints a beguiling portrait of life in the city for a ‘lost’ man struggling to fit in

  • Saturday, 30 October, 2021
    Life & Arts
    COP26: a Glasgow bookseller’s tale

    Ballyhoo and bewilderment as the climate summit — and Greta Thunberg — hit town

    A woman and a man transport a paper polar bear sculpture along a road, on their way from Shropshire to Glasgow to protest climate change. The bear is lying down on a trolley
  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    FT Magazine
    Natalie Whittle’s fantasy dinner: Aretha Franklin meets Canaletto

    Stanley Tucci serves the Queen of Soul and co drinks in a rowdy Tokyo bar

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Olga, by Bernhard Schlink — a love lost to adventurism

    From the author of ‘The Reader’ comes a poignant tale of one woman’s journey amid the history of turn-of-century Prussia

    Book cover of Olga as a child stares out from a window
  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Interiors
    Putting a gloss on it: why high-end paint sales surged under lockdown

    Home workers found that a fresh lick of colour is an ideal way to uplift, provoke and express social aspiration

  • Saturday, 14 November, 2020
    Glasgow
    Lockdown tales from Glasgow on the Amazon frontline

    Natalie Whittle on her tiny bookshop, Nicola Sturgeon and the resilience of the local economy

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    What Are You Going Through — a question of being heard

    Later-life crises plead for fair treatment in Sigrid Nunez’s novel of profound introspection

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain — Victorian transgressions

    A spirited cast of women strive to shape their lives beyond marriage in this story of self-discovery set in Borneo and Bath

  • Saturday, 8 August, 2020
    ReviewThriller books
    Seven Years of Darkness — an admirably tough fable

    South Korean sensation You-Jeong Jeong’s new ‘whydunit’ is about the search for the truth

  • Friday, 17 July, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Welcome to the 15-minute city

    As the switch to home working makes us balk at the back-and-forth of commuting, a new vision of urban living is emerging

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Thinking Again by Jan Morris — the final frontier

    In what may be her last work, the Welsh author explores the epic and the everyday

    C2FDNT Home made marmalade jars on glass shelf
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