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Recommended by Jim Hawkins

Amy Beashel

My Personal Substack

Amy's a brilliant writer, from Shropshire

- Jim Hawkins

Him, Her and the Hare

By Phil & Jacqui Lovesey

Husband and wife, writer and illustrator, sharing tales, tips and sometimes tribulations while creating and curating the world of Matlock the Hare.

He, she and it are all lovely, talented and enchanting! From Shropshire, too

- Jim Hawkins

SY.GIGS’s Substack

SY.GIGS is a not-for-profit newsletter dedicated to supporting local music and community events. Subscribe for free updates on gigs and ways to get involved. If you'd like to contribute, all funds go towards sustaining events.

Building a Shropshire community by putting on great gigs

- Jim Hawkins

Potential Difference

By From Phil Pickin

I'm a features writer and photographer whose interests include the waterways, the climate emergency, nature, and conservation. As if that weren't enough, I'm also interested in all aspects of mental health and what we can do to look after it.

Photography, trains and Shropshire wildlife

- Jim Hawkins

Birmingham Dispatch

By The Dispatch

A new quality newspaper for Birmingham and the West Midlands, delivered by email. Get great local journalism in your inbox daily by joining our free list, or join us as a paying member.

Essential reading if you're in, near, connected to or fond of Birmingham

- Jim Hawkins

Thoroughly Good Substack

Classical. Coaching. Digital.

It's thoroughly good ... on music, culture and the human condition

- Jim Hawkins

Inside Birmingham with Jane Haynes

By Birmingham Post

Want to tune into Birmingham's biggest stories? Join Jane Haynes as she goes Inside Birmingham, taking you behind the headlines and major issues in the UK's Second City

Essential reading if you need to know what's really happening in Birmingham

- Jim Hawkins

No F*cks Given® with Sarah Knight

Permission to live your best life and advice on how to do it, from a New York Times bestselling author of sweary self-help. (Me!)

Follow, laugh, learn and give your last f*ck

- Jim Hawkins

Jon’s Substack

By Jon Bruford

My personal Substack

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!)

Great writing from a magazine survivor

- Jim Hawkins

Receipt from the Bookshop

By Katie Clapham is Terrible

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.

A view from behind the till. Funny, adorable ... I look forward to this every week

- Jim Hawkins