Fiona grew up in the Scottish Borders and has spent much of her adult life moving between cities — Edinburgh, Manchester, then London — before eventually settling in York. She spent three years writing a travel column for a regional Sunday supplement and has since gone freelance. Her work focuses on discovering overlooked corners of Britain: coastal villages, inland market towns, walking routes with a good pub at the end. She is an enthusiastic but admittedly slow runner and keeps a sporadic travel journal she has never shown anyone.
Costume design does more than make characters look convincing. Clothing helps establish period, class, occupation, mood and personality before a character says very...
ByFiona CarrellJuly 23, 2026August is a good month for keeping a journal because it produces so much disposable evidence: train tickets, exhibition leaflets, café receipts, pressed...
ByFiona CarrellJuly 15, 2026Clerkenwell sits between the City, Bloomsbury and Islington, but its appeal is not that it feels untouched by London. Quite the opposite: the...
ByFiona CarrellJuly 12, 2026A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...
August 22, 2026Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...
August 9, 2026Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...
July 29, 2026Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...
July 28, 2026Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...
July 27, 2026Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...
July 26, 2026