Do you have signed copies of the latest Rick Stein title?

Often. Rick signs at the till here in person two or three times a year, and we hold a small stock of personalised first editions between signings. Phone the counter on 01841 533804 to check what is on the shelf before you make the trip in.

Are you open on a Sunday?

Yes. 10 to 4 on Sunday, 9 to 5:30 the rest of the week. The shorter Sunday slot reflects the harbour-tourist rhythm. The book club runs on the last Thursday of the month in the evening, when the shop opens later.

Do you post books UK-wide?

Yes. The online shop posts UK-wide, and the Pick and Mix subscription box runs monthly or quarterly to any UK address. Free postage over £40. Most orders go out the next working day.

Can I bring children into the shop?

The children's corner is at the front of the shop near the counter, deliberately, so under-fives can browse picture books at child-eye level while the buying parent stays in earshot. The Tonies counter is alongside.

Where do I find you exactly?

1 Broad Street, the corner unit at the top of Padstow harbour, a hundred metres back from the Quay. Walking up from the Stein Seafood Restaurant, turn right at Stein's Fish and Chips and we are on the corner. The sage-green shopfront with PADSTOW BOOKSELLER painted in serif across the fascia.

Padstow Bookseller · 1 Broad Street, Padstow · signed copies, the Cornish list, midnight openings

A bookshop a hundred metres back from the harbour.

Opened in 2016 by Cornish bookseller Ron Johns of Mabecron Books, with Rick and Sarah Stein. Six hundred square feet on the corner of Broad Street, a two-hundred-year-old unit at the top of Padstow harbour. Signed copies all year, the Cornish list, the Stein backlist, midnight openings for the big launches, and a monthly book club that does not take itself too seriously.

2016On Broad Street

Open 7 daysSun to 16:00

100mFrom the Quay

SIGNED

Signed copies, all year. The shelf's the strongest one in the shop.

A rotating shelf of signed first editions. Rick Stein signs his own titles at the till here in person two or three times a year; visiting authors run roughly once a month. Recent signings: Paul Ainsworth (For the Love of Food), Mollie Hunter-Trissler (Our Oaken Bones). Browse the signed-copies section in store, or by post via the online shop.

Personalised at the till, never proxy-signed

CORNWALL & THE SOUTH WEST

Cornwall, on the right shelf. Locally set, locally written, locally published.

The Cornwall fiction shelf (Daphne du Maurier, Patrick Gale, Liz Fenwick), the cookery wall (Stein, Ainsworth, Outlaw, Padstow seafood), the coastal nature-writing list. Plus everything published by Mabecron Books, the small Cornish house that runs this shop, including the Cornish picture-book list at child-eye level.

Mabecron house titles stocked here first

EVENTS

Midnight openings, cocktail launches, the monthly book club. A 600 sq ft shop running like a 6,000 sq ft one.

Pre-order programmes for the big midnight launches (ACOTAR 6 and 7 in October 2026 and January 2027). Themed launch nights for the romantasy releases. A monthly book club, last Thursday of the month, that does not take itself too seriously. The Stein signings sit alongside.

Book club: last Thursday of every month

PICK & MIX

The Pick & Mix subscription box. A bookseller picks. You read. Wrapped in kraft and posted.

Three tiers, monthly or quarterly. The bookseller selects a title to your taste from a short intake form, the book is wrapped in good kraft paper with a handwritten note, and posted UK-wide. Cancel any month. Pause for August. Gift subscriptions are the most-requested Christmas order.

Posted UK-wide · free over £40

Ten years on Broad Street, and forty years before that.

Ron Johns has been a Cornish bookseller since 1969. He opened his first shop, The University Bookseller in Plymouth, in 1974. Two years later, in 1976, he met Rick Stein in Padstow for the first time. The two of them talked about opening a bookshop together in the harbour town for the best part of four decades before they finally did it.

The Padstow Bookseller opened on 15 March 2016, as a three-way partnership between Ron, Rick and Sarah Stein. Six hundred square feet on the corner of Broad Street, a hundred metres back from the Quay, in a two-hundred-year-old unit. It is the only bookshop in Britain co-owned by Rick Stein.

The shop is part of the Mabecron Books group, the family-run Cornish chain that publishes locally-set Cornwall titles and runs sister shops in St Ives, Falmouth, and Dartmouth across the Tamar.

"I first met Rick in 1976, and we have discussed opening a book shop together for years."

Ron Johns, The Bookseller magazine, 25 February 2016

A line to the bookseller.

Looking for a title we might not have on the shelf? Want to know when Rick is signing next, or whether we can hold a pre-order copy for collection? Drop us a line and the bookseller will write back within the trading day.

For urgent enquiries, the counter takes calls on 01841 533804 Monday to Saturday, 9 to 5:30.

A bookshop a hundred metres back from the harbour.

The next signing, and a sense of what we run.

Rick Stein signing · new Cornish title

Rick Stein's Christmas signing

Brimstone midnight opening

Romantasy Cocktail Party

What you will find inside.

Signed copies, all year. The shelf's the strongest one in the shop.

Cornwall, on the right shelf. Locally set, locally written, locally published.

Midnight openings, cocktail launches, the monthly book club. A 600 sq ft shop running like a 6,000 sq ft one.

The Pick & Mix subscription box. A bookseller picks. You read. Wrapped in kraft and posted.

What it looks like inside.

Ten years on Broad Street, and forty years before that.

How to find us, and when we are open.

Opening hours

A line to the bookseller.

Five questions we hear most.

Part of a wider family.

A bookshop a hundred metres back from the harbour.

The next signing, and a sense of what we run.

Rick Stein signing · new Cornish title

Rick Stein's Christmas signing

Brimstone midnight opening

Romantasy Cocktail Party

What you will find inside.

Signed copies, all year. The shelf's the strongest one in the shop.

Cornwall, on the right shelf. Locally set, locally written, locally published.

Midnight openings, cocktail launches, the monthly book club. A 600 sq ft shop running like a 6,000 sq ft one.

The Pick &amp; Mix subscription box. A bookseller picks. You read. Wrapped in kraft and posted.

What it looks like inside.

Ten years on Broad Street, and forty years before that.

How to find us, and when we are open.

Opening hours

A line to the bookseller.

Five questions we hear most.

Part of a wider family.

The Pick & Mix subscription box. A bookseller picks. You read. Wrapped in kraft and posted.