Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Tweets from @likewinterblue and @pollyrowena. insta: samreadbookseller
Grasmere, England
Joined December 2013
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
'multifaceted, dynamic and unfailingly readable' (Professor Margaret Mackey): 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter' by our own @DrPennyBradshaw is published today! @BloomsburyAcad 🥳📚🍃🍄tinyurl.com/3dxdm2xb
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
Tickets are now on sale for a book launch event to celebrate the forthcoming publication of our own @DrPennyBradshaw’s ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’: 2-4pm on Saturday 10 January at our Ambleside campus. Further details & booking link can be found here: trybooking.com/uk/events/lan…
Like an anecdote from #Middleland about Cumbrian small business we've been extra busy spinning many plates, so it's taken us longer than planned, but the captioned video of our fantastic event with @RoryStewartUK and @herdyshepherd1 is now here to watch.
youtu.be/z68P9XcgIg4?si=9dNf…
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
A brief love-letter to my favourite bookshops, @thoughtfulspots in Halifax and
@SReadBooks in Grasmere.
For @book_tokens and @scholasticuk.
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
#SkelwithForce waterfall already in stramash with another 100mm of rain due in the #LakeDistrict over the next couple of days. This could become disruptive…
#SkelwithBridge #RiverBrathay #Rain
@NorthWestFoss @StormHour
@ThePhotoHour @bbcweather
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
Join us tomorrow at our Ambleside campus for this free talk with Cultural Historian @DrSueAllan on 'Folk song, music and dance in the Lake Counties'. See link below for details and to book a place 📚🍃
The next event in our free monthly Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk by Cultural Historian @DrSueAllan on 'Folk song, music & dance in the Lake Counties', taking place at our Ambleside campus on Tue 4 Nov. See here for details and to book a place: tinyurl.com/5xp7p8u2
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
'Middleland' by @RoryStewartUK
#shopindie and buy @ColesBooks @GoldenHareBooks @BookaBookshop @BooksMaldon @LinghamsBooks @Sherlock_Pages @SReadBooks @falmouthbooks @ForumBooks @BooksUpstairs @padstowbooks @bertsbooks
📖 sample to peek inside and share
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
A halloween books cartoon for @GuardianBooks
ALT Image: The library of an ancient castle. A full moon shines through a gothic window. A vampire creeps up behing a carpenter. Caption: "It had not been easy, but the Count was glad that he had resisted drinking the carpenter's blood until his beautiful new bookshelves were complete."
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
In just one week, we release our most personal film yet.
Origin — A Journey to Find the Source of Windermere reveals the truth of what is happening to England’s most iconic body of water.
Clean water isn’t a luxury.
It’s a basic human right.
And it’s time we stand together to protect it.
Windermere should be the symbol of freshwater in this country, and it’s time we clean it up by ending sewage pollution in our lake once and for all.
Head to savewindermere.com to be the first to know
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
“Gluts of rain, much thunder. The trees & hedges are much broken, & the thatch is torn. Much damage done to the shipping: chimneys, & some houses blown down in London.”
Gilbert White, 30 October 1777
#gilbertwhite #selborne
The answer is Cumbria! Congratulations to @RoryStewartUK on the publication of #Middleland today from @JonathanCape. We’ll be sharing the full conversation with @herdyshepherd1 before too long but this is all you need to know for now!
Happy publication day to @RoryStewartUK and #Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders! We have *signed* copies in the shop and on our virtual bookshelves here: samreadbooks.co.uk/product/r…
ALT Rory Stewart, Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders (Jonathan Cape) standing on a stone wall in Grasmere with autumn trees, fell and grey sky beyond
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
Few days in the Lakes with the kids. Lovely cottage, great food, book buying at @SReadBooks, a little walking…just not long enough! Horrific M6 traffic both ways did not help 😢
Find someone who looks at you the way @RoryStewartUK looks at @herdyshepherd1!
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Thanks to Alex from Atkin Media for these fantastic photos. atkinmedia.com/
I think you get a real sense from these great photos of what a generous and thoughtful conversation it was. #Middleland #Cumbria #RuralLife
ALT rory looking serious and talking to crowd and james smiling
ALT james reaching out to crowd and rory smiling at him as he speaks
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
Really enjoyed the event last night with @herdyshepherd1 and the chance to discuss Cumbria and my new book #Middleland - thank you to everyone who came and bought the book 🙏🏻
About last night - a little snippet of the brilliant discussion between @herdyshepherd1
and @RoryStewartUK we hosted at Kendal leisure centre for the launch of Rory's new book #Middleland @JonathanCape. Thanks to everyone who came along and everyone made this possible!
About last night - a little snippet of the brilliant discussion between @herdyshepherd1
and @RoryStewartUK we hosted at Kendal leisure centre for the launch of Rory's new book #Middleland @JonathanCape. Thanks to everyone who came along and everyone made this possible!
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
When you are in conversation with @RoryStewartUK tomorrow night in front of 700 people and doing your homework on his new book
Today marks 2 years since @likewinterblue & @pollyrowena took the helm at the bookshop! We're celebrating by working on our huge event next week in Kendal, with @herdyshepherd1 and @RoryStewartUK in conversation to mark publication of Rory's new book #Middleland #ChooseBookshops
ALT Sunshine on Bookshop and fells beyond, reflected in a puddle on Broadgate
Here’s @likewinterblue opening the doors to this morning, on the 1st anniversary of our new stewardship of this venerable bookshop. What a year! Thanks so much for all your support and custom. Here’s to the books, and all readers! #ChooseBookshops #IndieBookshops #Grasmere