Spectator

Carla Carlisle was born and raised in Mississippi but now runs a farm in Suffolk, Wyken Hall. In the 1980s she married Sir Kenneth Carlisle and they have a son, Sam. She has written a weekly column, Spectator, for Country Life magazine since March 2004.


Carla Carlisle on Jane Austen and JK Rowling

Friday, 09 May 2008

Carla speculates on the differences between the Rich List in Jane Austen’s time and now

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Carla Carlisle on 1968

Thursday, 01 May 2008

Carla Carlisle is hooked on Radio 4’s ‘1968: Day by Day’, and keeps getting caught up by the many parallels between 1968 and 2008

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Carla Carlisle on the twilight years

Thursday, 24 April 2008

Carla Carlisle has just introduced a new puppy into the house, and ponders on how best to tackle the latter years of one's life

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Spectator on closing breweries

Thursday, 17 April 2008

Carla Carlisle says the Government is partly to blame for breweries and pubs closing across the countryside: when they failed to support pubs in the aftermath of the smoking ban

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