Design
Small Art, vol. 3
£18.00
Art and illustration · 196 pages
Front page
The October racks are in: 41 new titles this week
In brief
Forty-one new titles on Thursday
The autumn Floor & Frame, a fat Letterform and two new kids’ puzzle books arrive with the van at seven.
We buy whole runs
Bring old magazines to the back-issues desk on Tuesday mornings. Ivo pays cash or credit.
Kids’ rack moves to the window
Lantern Club and Puzzle Pier now sit at small-person height.
Lead story · Food
The issue of the month is all about bread
Harbour Table, issue 31: sourdough on the Suffolk coast, a baker in Southwold who starts at three, and the best butter we have tasted in years. £9.50 at the counter.
We ordered forty copies and kept one back for the shop. Ruth read it cover to cover on a slow Tuesday and put the rest on the front table by lunch. Buy it for the starter guide on page 40.
By Ruth Benacre, who runs the counter
Inside
- DesignRooms, type, objects
- FoodBread, coffee, larders
- TravelSleepers and lakes
- ComicsReprints and manga
- Back issuesFiled by year
At the kiosk today
Open 7–6
Papers from 6.30 · tea on the bench
Subscriptions
Any title, held behind the till or posted. Ten per cent off from the first issue.
See letterbox plans →Read the room
How are you feeling?
Pick a mood and we will put four magazines in your hands.
Travel
Out There, issue 5
£13.00
Mountains and long walks · 104 pages
Back issues
Bound year, 1988
£45.00
Twelve issues · cloth binding
Subscriptions
Mystery stack, monthly
£22.00
Three surprise titles a month
Sections
from £8DesignFloor & Frame turns to small flatsBrowse the rack →from £5.50FoodHarbour Table bakes on the coastBrowse the rack →from £7TravelNight Train rides the sleeper northBrowse the rack →from £3.99KidsLantern Club reaches issue 63Browse the rack →from £3.50ComicsTide Runner volume two landsBrowse the rack →from £2Back issuesA bound year of 1988 comes inBrowse the rack →
Opinion
Staff picks
Three of us, three magazines, no press releases
Ruth Benacre · owner
A comic I read standing at the till
Silver Age sampler, six reprints in one bag. I meant to check the stapling and read all six before the Saturday rush. The colours are flatter than the originals and better for it.
Comics
Silver Age sampler, 6 issues
£24.00
Superhero reprints · bagged and boarded
Ivo Brandreth · back issues
The best-made magazine on the wall
Workbench visits nine studios and lets each one talk for ten pages. No listicles, no gift guides, just people explaining how a chair gets made. The paper smells like a sawmill.
Design
Workbench Quarterly, no. 9
£14.50
Studios and makers · 180 pages
Nell Oddy · Saturdays and kids
My niece asks for it by name
Lantern Club has one long story, two short ones and a page to cut out and fold. Issue 63 has a dog who runs a ferry. It is the only thing that quiets the back seat on the A12.
Kids
Lantern Club, issue 63
£4.99
Ages 5–8 · stories · monthly
The kiosk
Find us on London Road North
A green awning, two benches and a wall of paper, four minutes from the station. Come and read before you buy.
- Monday to Friday
- 7.00 – 18.00
- Saturday
- 7.00 – 17.00
- Sunday
- 8.00 – 13.00
- Back-issues desk
- Tuesday, 9.00 – 12.00