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ALT Sunshine on Bookshop and fells beyond, reflected in a puddle on Broadgate
ALT Photo of Rory Stewart on the left hand side, cover of Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders (Jonathan Cape) in the centre, photo of James Rebanks on the right hand side
ALT Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede (Virago Modern Classic) on the bookshop counter with bookshelves behind
ALT Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus (Virago Modern Classic) on the bookshop counter with bookshelves behind
ALT Rumer Godden Virago Modern Classic reissues, spine on on the bookshop table, standing next to Elizabeth Fair, Rose Macaulay and Elizabeth von Arnim
ALT Stack of books inside the shop with bookshelves behind. The stack of books are: 1. James Rebanks, The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) 2. Helen Rebanks, The Farmer’s Wife (Faber) 3. Tom Palmer, Angel of Grasmere (Barrington Stoke) 4. Kim Tillyer, Beginner’s Guide to Cyanotype (Search Press) 5. Katie Hale, The Edge of Solitude (Canongate) 6. Ellie Wood, The Restaurant at the Heart of the Lakes (HarperNorth) 7. Polly Atkin, The Company of Owls (Elliott and Thompson) 8. E.M. Ward, Forest Silver (British Library) 9. Tom Chesshyre, Lost in the Lakes (Summersdale) 10. Esther Rutter, All Before Me (Granta) 11. Polly Atkin, Recovering Dorothy (Saraband) 12. Lemn Sissay, Let the Light Pour In (Canongate) 13. Polly Atkin, Some of Us Just Fall (Sceptre) 14. David Nicholls, You Are Here (Sceptre) 15. Grasmere History Group, Grasmere in 55½ Buildings (GHG)
ALT Tawny owl, perched on a human shoulder inside the bookshop. The open bookshop door behind.
ALT ANOTHER WAR time Christmas now came to Grasmere. With three times as many people in the valley as there were normally in winter the shops were always full; a clutter of alert, well-dressed babies in their prams obstructed with their nurses the letter-box in Red Lion Square, it being the habit of prams to congregate outside the post office; strangers asked peculiar questions, at all times and of all persons. ‘Is that Scafell Pike?’ would say an elderly pedestrian, waving vaguely towards those slopes of Silver-how that look so immense from the village roads. ‘Oh, is there a post office in Grasmere?’ and ‘Which is the church, please?’ The Westmorland Gazette got itself mixed up over its statement of times for the black-out and the red mail-van made its one delivery of letters in the middle of lunch. Another test was made of the local air-raid siren, which was tootled by hand, but no one, fortunately, was able to hear it except two households ... who thought it was a bus changing gear ..
ALT Coffee cup. Reads: Caffe Nero The Italian Coffee Company
