Independent Magazine Reviews
Illustoria is a magazine for creative kids and their grownups. But even as a grownup without kids, I fell in love with the simple story-telling approach Illustoria bring to nuanced concepts like friendship, determination and loneliness. The Californian based magazine is published quarterly, having been founded in summer 2016. Issue 3 of Illustoria, Outside-In,…
The lateness of this review doesn’t reflect how quickly I read issue 2 of Phox Pop* magazine; it was devoured within a couple of days over Christmas. (Lack of natural light and knee-deep wedding planning conspired to keep me from blogging!) Phox Pop is a well researched, engaging and beautifully designed magazine. It defies easy…
On My Bookshelf is a series of my most favourite books, frequently recommended to friends, family, and now to you! I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with our dog's blanket and the tea-cosy. When…
Just before Rogue One, the newest Star Wars film, was released in December 2016, Little White Lies released an a special Star Wars colour-in edition. The joy of colouring in never really leaves you when you grow up, and it was lovely to have the time (and excuse!) to get out a fistful of colouring…
Happy new year! I'm enjoying a brand new year with new resolutions underway. I'm calming down the eating and drinking post-Christmas with my first dry January and a (nearly) veggie month of eating. I'm also following Lauren Laverne's advice to only take on one task at once, 'single-tasking', to stay more relaxed. This year is…
A few weeks ago I wrote about reading frankie, an Australian independent magazine whose summery pages helped make the UK winter feel a little less severe. Recently it's been so dull and grey outside that another trip down under, this time with Peppermint magazine, has helped to brighten things up! Peppermint is an Australian quarterly magazine,…
I’m in denial about it being autumn; I miss the long sunny evenings of summer and Christmas is not quite near enough to get excited about yet. So when I picked up a copy of frankie, an Australian independent magazine, and found that it was infused with the down under excitement of ‘summer is just…
From the moment I opened Ladybeard magazine, I knew it was a magazine I wanted to read: We platform the voices you won’t hear in women’s magazines; voices of the people who live any and every deviation from the straight, white, cis, able-bodied ‘ideal’. Working in themed issues, we open up old topics to vital…
Flow dedicate themselves to paper. Not only do they publish a magazine eight times a year, but they also produce a yearly calendar, diary and Flow special books about specific topics like mindfulness. Based in the Netherlands, alongside their Dutch publications, they also make four English editions of the Flow magazine every year. I've been…
At the beginning of September, my fiancé Dan and I went to Brighton for the weekend, ostensibly to celebrate dating for 4 years, but with our eyes on a whole lot of great places to visit and eat delicious food at, regardless of the special occasion. First stop was the mecca of Magazine Brighton. I picked up the latest issues of…
