Bit of a change up for opening hours in 2026. Take note por favor. Ta. . Tuesday - Saturday 9:30-5:30 . Sundays + Mondays closed

Good morning. We are open. Easing back in to it. Lots to catch up on. If we can’t chat for ages over the next few days apologies

Big news, this new one is popping out next week. We will be closing for two weeks to celebrate/recover/concentrate on it. Some things are more important than selling stuff. We will be running a 10% off code online. We would love it if you supported us.

Hello. We are the blue shop that is located under the blue sky. Oh and this place is called a Bluesky. Woah. Easy to find. See you later. Thanks.

Imagine buying a magazine today? Honestly you’d feel like A BOSS So, with that in mind i want to give a Saturday shout out to @raremags.bsky.social who not only have our latest issue but also a bewilderingly good selection of other stuff, so let’s have a look & see what I want to read… 1/15

The wonderful @helleborezine.bsky.social scaring the faithful with the old ways, seriously if any of our readers want to magic up some free international media coverage for us by wearing one of our tees to a Cliff Richard gig or something please do

Wild to think that in January Wyrd Science will celebrate 5 years of having more journalistic integrity than the NY Times. Need to think of a way to celebrate.

Picked up my copy of #callinginsickmagazine 15 from the lovely people at @raremags.bsky.social yesterday. If I’m counting my blessings sat by this lake this morning. Rare Mags is definitely on the list. A trove of printed matter & stationary

Magazines about stuff and things. raremags.co.uk

Another section of our multi-part pre order saga is the new Tools magazine, this time taking in the act of spinning. We know a lot of you like to do that stuff. So get in on the action, copies hitting the shop early next week directly from France.

The Tower is out today, and we have Thea in the shop tomorrow evening talking with Jodie Matthews about fairytales and folk and stories. You can come - tickets from the site or the counter now

It’s us. Big load of new book releases today, autumn magazine arrivals, fancy pencils and coffee all day

New issue now in stock at our favourite blue shop, @raremags.bsky.social, alongside the worlds best other magazines

We’re here selling books and magazines (print is dead), in a physical shop (the high street is dead), writing these words using a human brain (we don’t even need to think any more though right?)

10 October: Thea Lenarduzzi will be in conversation with Jodie Matthews @raremags.bsky.social: raremags.co.uk/blogs/events...

We’re here for another week of this stuff. Expect A/W 2025 influx, pre orders for the new Calling In Sick and Tools flying out, new Olga Tokarczuk (!!!), more stationery favourites from Penco, maybe even a Rare Dunk or two.

Just us in the middle of it all. The street is changing around us, hang in there while we get some new neighbours. We’ll be here. New stuff every day, coffee machine on, every day apart from Mondays, all on the website is in stock, ready to go. Happy to help, we love what we do.

Newly constructed (by Holly, who else?) stationery displays are in the shop now. We welcome Penco to go with our old friends Kaweco and Milan. A selection of what you need and want to make marks on paper. On the site too, but you’ll have to imagine the newly oiled plywood smell.

Due to the sheer number of new magazines arriving, the highway is narrowed. All roads lead to good print.

Yes. It is us again. Yes it is us, the magazine and book shop with the unlocked door. Ready. For all of you.

Chalk is here, an arts magazine about science, a history magazine that covers sustainability. It includes writing on volcanoes and racism is Brazilian football and dung beetles, folklore, the national video game museum, steam trains and prehistoric oreodonts (think dog sized camels).

Counter views. We’re the magazine shop with the books, that’ll do you a really good coffee (with a biscuit) and talk you through our fancy pens and pencils too.

A new issue of the clothing history magazine Avant has arrived. This time we hear the voices of the vintage clothing industry - collectors, dealers, designers. The interviews are varied and fascinating and it’s a great dive in to what connects a love of old rags.

New ones about various aspects of fashion and style. raremags.co.uk

We do Tunnocks Snowballs now. We do Tunnocks Snowballs CHILLED now.

Enjoy!

We’ll be talking about this one a lot but for now we’ll lay it out - it’s a magazine about cargo bikes and cycling infrastructure and advocacy and logistics and we LOVE it. Copies in the shop or the site now. raremags.co.uk @cargobikefest.bsky.social

Many many new titles arriving. raremags.co.uk for all the info.

All this until 6

As always, we are here, and we are thinking about how fortunate we are to be here and to be able to run a shop every day. Ta.

Out now, on the shelf, and Lally Macbeth will be in the shop on the 17th of July to talk through the history of folk. Tickets here - raremags.co.uk/collections/...

#othermeans is a really good read if your into #bikepacking #altcycling or adjacent interests. This issue has an interview with #ronnieromance #ronsbikes that’s got some depth. This is ish2 but ish3 is out now. If you’re struggling to source the good folk at @raremags.bsky.social has copies. 🚲❤️

Further adventures in Stockport, somewhat oddly the retail capital for Wyrd Science in the UK. This time a pilgrimage to somewhere we’ve wanted to visit for ages, the magazine Valhalla that is @raremags.bsky.social. We’ve said it once, we’ll keep saying it, once a month just treat yourself to…

Today @lallymacbeth.bsky.social’s book, The Lost Folk, is published and, intrigued by its premise, we invited her to write a short piece for our website. You can read it here: www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk/news/a-new-n...

The Folk Review is here, the magazine of The Folk Archive. The second issue is inspired by childhood, experiments, eduction & craft. We got some issue 1 too because we’re like that, it contains Cornish customs, Lancashire based witch stuff, Scottish ghosts & apple trees in Sussex for good measure.

Can’t make it to London for your Rooney chess fix? Word has it that our very own Holly was once crowned “Queen Of The Board” in the Rossendale Free Press newspaper and will tackle anyone.

“Rare Mags does it again, shock horror!” reads the headline. We’ve brought these in from the United States of America because they are GREAT. For fans of 2nd, Popeye, etc etc, but in English so you can read about all these incredible things without a reader app. Very limited copies.

Currently reading. You? . @grantabooks.bsky.social #debutauthor #granta #whatareyoureading

Magazines. Books. Zines. Coffee. Events. Stockport. raremags.co.uk

Open. What a surprise. #stockport #magazines #books

Mailing list about to go out ready to read while you eat a butty. . Sign up here - eepurl.com/h46gMn

Oooooo sexy close up

Another restock of @vittles.bsky.social

Our pleasure. Lovely to host you all. ❤️

Hiya

The kind of Thatcher we really like.

This is the shop. A lot of great new arrivals this week already, which we’ll be talking about today. Upcoming events with Charlie Porter & @jacksonjamie.bsky.social + a ton of stuff happening around us, outside, up and down the street & over the hill in every corner, yard and dungeon. See you soon.

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