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These haunted hotel notepads let you leave messages from places where guests check in, but don’t always check out. Each ...
24/10/2024

These haunted hotel notepads let you leave messages from places where guests check in, but don’t always check out. Each blood-chillingly authentic pad feels ripped straight from the front desk of horror’s most notorious establishments.
Perfect for shopping lists, last words, or “REDRUM REDRUM REDRUM” over and over…

Uncovered some lost artefacts while clearing out the lockup. Look for them coming to the shop soon.
18/10/2024

Uncovered some lost artefacts while clearing out the lockup. Look for them coming to the shop soon.

Thanks to  for this photo of our Lisbon guide in use. It brings some sunshine to a grey London day.
15/10/2024

Thanks to for this photo of our Lisbon guide in use. It brings some sunshine to a grey London day.

Read all about us in the ! 🗞️ ‼️It was great to have to chance to talk all things Herb with . Link to the article in bio...
09/10/2024

Read all about us in the ! 🗞️ ‼️

It was great to have to chance to talk all things Herb with . Link to the article in bio.

It’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and dark, disturbing forces. Happy to help with the latter.Design & ill...
07/10/2024

It’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and dark, disturbing forces. Happy to help with the latter.
Design & illustration Text by Gary Lachman

Damp and chilly today but we can dream.
30/09/2024

Damp and chilly today but we can dream.

All aboard! Decorate and identify your baggage with our handy Tyvek luggage tags. Suitable for all weather and modes of ...
25/09/2024

All aboard! Decorate and identify your baggage with our handy Tyvek luggage tags. Suitable for all weather and modes of transport ✈️⚓️🚊🚐

Explore the strange world of Patricia Highsmith.Design .work Text
17/09/2024

Explore the strange world of Patricia Highsmith.
Design .work Text

A couple of weeks ago, while in New York, I was thrilled to find a copy of this book at my friends’ excellent vintage sh...
13/09/2024

A couple of weeks ago, while in New York, I was thrilled to find a copy of this book at my friends’ excellent vintage shop . Written by polymath design legends Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder in 1967 (this edition is from 1968), it’s a guide that extolls the type of businesses we love: small, independent, family-run, idiosyncratic and excellent at what they do.
Glaser and Snyder are adventurous eaters – they have a particular weakness for offal – and their passion for food and affection for the people who make and serve it is a joy to read, even at more than 50 years distance.
They are funny too – “By decorating his restaurant with an arbor of plastic grapes, flowers and a variety of colored lights, Ralph has attempted to evoke some spirit of his native Italy. He has not been entirely successful.”
The book is peppered with wry observations and the conversational tone makes one wish that we were squeezed into a booth with them, enjoying an order of gulyash at Little Royal (“a small restaurant with a big menu”) or a bowl of spicy soup at Ping Chin (“nothing can be said abut the decor for its only decoration is a large blue noisy air conditioner”).

Are you ready for the new season of Slow Horses?Text by  Design & illustration  📷
03/09/2024

Are you ready for the new season of Slow Horses?
Text by
Design & illustration
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Remembering this old favourite which is currently out of print, prompting the question: where’s Mister Lester going next...
01/09/2024

Remembering this old favourite which is currently out of print, prompting the question: where’s Mister Lester going next?
Text
Design & illustration

We’re taking a short break, so orders placed 27 Aug - 5 Sep will ship on 6 Sep. Thanks for your patience! 🍸🗽
27/08/2024

We’re taking a short break, so orders placed 27 Aug - 5 Sep will ship on 6 Sep. Thanks for your patience! 🍸🗽

Detail from our Deadly Isle guide, designed and illustrated by  Running the length and breadth of the BritishIsles, this...
19/08/2024

Detail from our Deadly Isle guide, designed and illustrated by
Running the length and breadth of the British
Isles, this illustrated map and guide plots 51 real-
life locations from books and stories from the
Golden Age Of Detective Fiction – the period
roughly between the end of the first world war
and the end of the second. The titans of the genre
are represented here – Agatha Christie, Margery
Allingham, Dorothy L Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Anthony
Berkeley – along with many less heralded authors.
This Deadly Isle charts puzzling murders,
mysterious disappearances and devilish mysteries
from the Home Counties to the Hebrides, all
painstakingly documented in a map redolent of
the era. Written and researched by crime novelist,
critic and historian Martin Edwards, This Deadly
Isle reveals the variety of settings into which the
genre was adapted and the vast number of stories
written, many of them still little known.

I may have posted this before but it feels appropriate for a gloriously sunny Saturday. Also, it saves me emailing it to...
17/08/2024

I may have posted this before but it feels appropriate for a gloriously sunny Saturday. Also, it saves me emailing it to

A busy week got in the way of posting. Here’s to a relaxing weekend! 🍔🥤🌞
16/08/2024

A busy week got in the way of posting. Here’s to a relaxing weekend! 🍔🥤🌞

Where are you staying this summer?
13/08/2024

Where are you staying this summer?

Read all about it. Design  Text
10/08/2024

Read all about it.
Design Text

More than half the pre-orders dropped in time to make the 5.30 post pickup. The rest will go tomorrow. Thanks to all who...
24/07/2024

More than half the pre-orders dropped in time to make the 5.30 post pickup. The rest will go tomorrow. Thanks to all who preordered, and to and for making this thing.

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We started Herb Lester in 2010, making simple folded guides to the cities we love. It’s our intention to have a distinctive voice and follow our interests rather than respond to passing fashions. Everything we include in our guides and everything we do is because we like it and think our readers will too.


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