Stopped at my favourite bookshop in The Lakes, Sam Read in Grasmere (@samreadbookseller.bsky.social) and dropped off a box of signed & demon stamped copies of Spooky Book No. 2. So they're there if you want one, Lake Folk 🦇..!

Daphne NU Maurier www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/daph...

Our upcoming event with Rory Stewart and James Rebanks is on the front page of the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald! Pieces in Rory's new book #Middleland first featured in the pages of the Herald. Join us Tues 28th Oct at 7pm at Westmorland Hall, Kendal. betterboxoffice.co.uk/westmorland-...

Did you know our essential and iconic 555 bus route turns 100 this year? We didn't, until we heard the centenary was being marked today with a convoy of vintage buses restored by the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust (RVPT), pictured here returning from Keswick through #Grasmere. #PublicTransport

Looking forward to this one. Sarah Hall is an astonishment of a writer.

Delighted that my "Folklore of the Lake District" made it onto the list of August bestsellers at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social If you are in the Lakes, do call for a browse; and also, it's #BuyABookDay Link: samreadbooks.co.uk #folklore #lakedistrict #booksky

On Saturday 13th September, from 2pm, poet Kelly Davis is reading from The Lost Art of Ironing at Windermere Library. It's the first in a series of events hosted by the Lake District Holocaust Project entitled 'Memory / Place / Ghost'.

Happiest of publication days to Sarah hall and her magnificent new novel #Helm from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Incredibly grateful today's blustery wind blew in both Sarah and artist Jocelyn McGregor who made the beautiful Helm-themed panels for the shop window.

This evening artist Jocelyn McGregor hung her art in our windows as one of five Cumbrian artists commissioned by @faberbooks.bsky.social to create new work for Cumbria's indie bookshops to celebrate Sarah Hall's new novel #Helm, published tomorrow. Get your signed copy from tomorrow morning!

We're delighted to announce Rory Stewart will be launching new book Middleland in conversation with James Rebanks at Westmorland Hall, Kendal on Tuesday 28th October, 7pm. Buy your ticket and pre-order signed copies of Middleland to collect on the night: betterboxoffice.co.uk/westmorland-...

We're delighted to announce Rory Stewart will be launching new book Middleland in conversation with James Rebanks at Westmorland Hall, Kendal on Tuesday 28th October, 7pm. Buy your ticket and pre-order signed copies of Middleland to collect on the night: betterboxoffice.co.uk/westmorland-...

Evening sunshine on the bookshop.

From stories of fae folk and the supernatural, to mythology and nature lore and much more... wonderful to see @stephengrae.bsky.social's Folklore of the Lake District is proving so popular on Grasmere's bookshelves! www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/step...

Be like the herdwick, browse in the shade.

Tidying the bookshelves after another busy summer's day in Grasmere...

I picked up three copies of this beautiful booklet by Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social while visiting @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere yesterday. The perfect gift for friends far away. Ten Poems from the Lake District share.google/nc6f2Ozxjtup...

Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social

When you're desperate to look in the bookshop window...

Meet the author..the fascinating David Howe @davidprf.bsky.social is guest at the Burn How Hotel book session on Weds Aug 27, 7pm, it's free, all welcome. David wrote the glorious "Rocks & Rain, Reason & Romance", one of the best ever books about the Lakes. Pls share. @lakedistrict.bsky.social

Just received this from Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere (@samreadbookseller.bsky.social) - the books not the rabbit! Ordered Saturday, delivered today (Monday). Exceptional service, thanks guys! Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells – 70th Anniversary Edition Box Set

Pleased to announce that all pre-orders of my #Cicerone Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West guidebook from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social will be signed!! ✍️ You can find the Sam Read website via linktr.ee/ange_harker & at www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-... #KCIIIECP

Delighted to see this piece on #AlfredWainwright and the enduring appeal of his guides by Ed Hanson made the main BBC Breakfast today in a slightly longer version than on the local news, so you could catch @likewinterblue.bsky.social talking about the tactility of the books!

Perfectly harmonising with all the greens of Grasmere, @joeharkness.bsky.social's brilliant and essential new book #NeurodivergentByNature is in full leaf - and the shop - a little earlier than expected. Officially out July 31st @chiffchat.bsky.social. #NatureWriting #Neurodiversity #Booksky

One for a spotter’s badge: Georges Perec in Grasmere. Now, there’s an author who would have enjoyed sitting outside Sam Read’s and watching the world go by…

New on the bookshop spinner! Ten Poems from the Lake District, selected, introduced and featuring our own @pollyrowena.bsky.social. Published by the ever illuminating @candlestickpress.bsky.social. www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/poll...

A Friday afternoon glimpse of our bookshop table...

Hustle culture? No thanks. I'm more partial to "exploring quaint independent bookstores on rainy days" culture.

Our co-captain @likewinterblue.bsky.social was on the local BBC news last night talking about the 70th anniversary of the publication of Alfred Wainwright’s Eastern Fells. Sam Read has been selling guides and maps to eager visitors since before the man himself set up his own shop in 1887.

Wonderful to be on the wireless with BBC Cumbria this morning to talk about the 70th Anniversary of Alfred Wainwright's The Eastern Fells (just after an in-depth feature on making tea in the microwave). There are rumours the bookshop will be on the telly with BBC local news this evening too...

Hopes may rise on the Grasmere But honey pie, you're not safe here So you run down to the safety of the town But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle 🎶🎶 @samreadbookseller.bsky.social

I'd be remiss in posting about Grasmere without a shoutout to @samreadbookseller.bsky.social which is one of my fave bookshops in the UK - crammed with goodies everywhere you look; I always find something interesting there. Didn't even know about this Gardam novel set in Cumbria.

Lovely walk in Lakes today, saw a couple of owls. Followed by best hot choc @faerylandgrasmere.bsky.social and book shopping @samreadbookseller.bsky.social. Even rain didn't spoil a perfect day.

Some wet bookshop adjacent wildlife today, including some damp young browsers, but those jackdaws are eagerly eyeing Grasmere gingerbread so we need not feel too sorry...

A glorious book stack with new reads all on the shelves today! We're delighted to have *signed* paperback copies of David Nicholls, You Are Here; Katie Hale, The Edge of Solitude and James Rebanks, The Place of Tides! Peruse in Grasmere or via www.samreadbooks.co.uk

A glance back over June's bestselling books at the bookshop counter... uk.bookshop.org/lists/sam-re...

Stop what you're doing and look at our lovely new book trolleys. ❤️

Also freshly arrived in the vale - 'In the Lily Room' - the debut poetry collection by Erica Hesketh @ninearchespress.bsky.social, who was guest poet at the Wordsworth Trust's online #GoToThePoets reading series curated by @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social tonight.

Congratulations to winner Annie Bot, and to all the shortlisted titles! www.clarkeaward.com

Winchester and Kibworth sold out next week, but still tickets available for Rugby huntsbookshop.com/collections/...

For the night of the new moon, my OH tracked the desert stars again with camera & tripod. I can’t get over the wonder of this, even just the colour variations of the distinct paths. If you know the celestial opening sequence of the 1946 film A Matter of Life & Death — it makes me think of that.

Roosting on the shelves this week, @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social's debut novel 'Awakened' from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social. In last Friday's #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com @pollyrowena.bsky.social chose 'Awakened' one of her expert picks and had this to say:

Hi bunny! We’re so excited to have a proof of ‘We Love You, Bunny’ in Grasmere, bunny! Best, there’s loads of time to read or re-read that documentary account of a creative writing programme Bunny before this sequel/prequel is out in September! Get Bunny, and pre-order #WeLoveYouBunny now! xx

The heroes we can all aspire to be

How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Without wanting to sound too like Stopford Brooke in 1889, it would be so wasteful to see such an important part of #LakeDistrict literary history lost to the public. Time for a C21st campaign like the C19th one our co-captain @pollyrowena.bsky.social researched: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Actors Paul and Mark McGann with us at Rydal Mount. They've joined our campaign to save the house for the public. You can help too. Just add your name here saverydalmount.org.uk, and share this as widely as possible. Thank you!

Thank you very, very much for this! I hope it sells well for you x

On this chilly, rainy #MidsummerDay we recommend some perfectly unsettling reading - #TheDeadOfSummer - strange tales of May Eve & Midsummer - edited by the legendary @johnnymains.co.uk. Think spectral encounters are just for Halloween or Christmas? THINK AGAIN! #SummerReads #HotGhoulSummer

@stuartmaconie.bsky.social Picked this up on a visit today. The last copy in Sam Read - it had to be fished out from the window display.