If we don’t have a book you want on the shelf we can order it in next day (or next next day if Saturday) and we post anywhere from our online shop. There’s a whole bunch of brilliant indies in Cumbria including - @westwoodbooks.bsky.social @fredsbookshop.bsky.social @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social

Went into @westwoodbooks.bsky.social for a birthday card and this was crying out for a re-read!

@junobooks.bsky.social, Chapel Walk, Sheffield :] (I don't think they're on here but also Rhyme & Reason on Ecclesall Road) Also not local to me personally but @westwoodbooks.bsky.social in Sedbergh is the best! 🙏

Looking forward to hearing @adamjfarrer.bsky.social read tomorrow night in Sedbergh. Always a laugh to be had 😂

Tomorrow! Our event with @adamjfarrer.bsky.social Come along! Tickets available online, in the bookshop and on the door!

Follow the book town on Facebook or the website for horror in June and murder mystery in October Sedbergh.org.uk Also @westwoodbooks.bsky.social do lots of author events! 📚💚

On March 26th I’ll be at @westwoodbooks.bsky.social, the largest bookshop in the Yorkshire Dales. I’ve wanted to arrange an event there for a long time, so I’m over the moon that I’ll finally get to sit amongst their stock of 70,000 books and talk about mine.

Busy cataloguing more mountaineering books today. Pulling together a nice collection of women’s climbing books 😊🏔️🧗🏻

Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.

We now have lots of new books in mountaineering, climbing, Tibet, Nepal, Everest and the Himalayas and Polar. With more to come too! 😊🧗🏻🏔️

Have you heard of Odette Tchernine? A socialite & novelist, she became a renowned cryptozoologist in the 1970’s. She wrote a number of books about the Yeti or Abominable Snowman. We have two, one is signed & inscribed by the author with a few annotations correcting the text. Both first editions.

We’ve recently acquired a large collection of mountaineering books, a lot of which are signed, including these two beauties. We’ve started to add them on our Abe Books listing here www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Sear...

I really love to visit @westwoodbooks.bsky.social in Sedbergh.

Very much looking forward to this event!

Tickets are now on sale for our event with Sharon Blackie on Thursday 6th February 2025. We anticipate that this will be a popular event so do book in advance if you can. Tickets available online & in store.

Day 31: Westwood Books, Sedbergh, Cumbria. From now until Christmas I’m going to repost a UK independent bookshop. Support them if you can, and please choose a book by a less well-known author rather than a celebrity if at all possible. Thank you 😊 #books 💙📚

Our UK last order date for items required before Christmas is Thursday 19th December. This is for both online orders & in store collection. Our Christmas opening hours are: Christmas Eve 10:30am - 3pm Christmas Day Closed Boxing Day 10:30am - 3pm All other days will be as normal. See you soon! 🎄

One for @pollyrowena.bsky.social - owls will now always remind me of you 😊

A local walk to us… 😊

Big thank you to @mwcraven.bsky.social for popping in to sign copies of his books today. The Mercy Chair is out in paperback this Thursday and we now have signed copies of that and some of his other books available in the shop and on our website. 📚😃

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

Why read books? Because reading opens minds & hearts. It helps us imagine different lives and different worlds; it can help us build a better world. So please keep reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. There is nothing more important. #literacy #books #reading

We borrowed some very strong elves tonight to help with something we’ve been wanting to do for ages - move our sofas downstairs. (Thank you elves!) So now, if you need some comfortable seating, you don’t need to go all the way up the stairs. Watch this space for more helpful changes coming up 😊

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Huge thank you to all of the elves who have helped us to make the bookshop look super festive so far. All will be ready in time for Sedbergh Christmas Late Night opening this Wednesday 4th December. Hopefully see you there! 🎄☃️🎅

It’s Colour Friday! An annual event that encourages customers to rethink their holiday shopping & support local artisans, independent shops, & creators. This year, spend with purpose & intention, & help us celebrate the colour & creativity small businesses bring to the UK Artwork: Rebecca Strickson

This Black Friday you can support independent bookshops online through Bookshop.org with free shipping on orders all weekend. Want to discover some great indies to follow on Bluesky? We've put together a starter pack of bookshops across the UK that you can follow now: go.bsky.app/6UrVWsn

Let's rename Black Friday Book Friday. See, sounds way better!

Tomorrow is #ColourFriday Here are 5 ways why it's important: 🧡 It's better for the planet 💛 It's better for communities 💙 It's better for building a fairer society 💜 It's better for shoppers 💚 It's better for showing Christmas spirit 🎨: Rebecca Strickson #ChooseBookshops

Ok authors & readers of BlueSky… a year ago I posted a call out on that *other* place for upcoming books & authors to come & do events with us, but family health issues derailed 2024 plans so it was a lot quieter than I’d hoped. Do we have any suggestions or volunteers for some 2025 events? 🤞🏻📚😬🙏

In the newsletter this week - the New Naturalist series - a collection of books about the natural history of the British Isles. Some of our collection are listed for sale online but many more are available in the shop. If you’re looking for a specific edition do get in touch to see if we can help.

Our latest newsletter just landed! If you’re not signed up you can read it here: westwoodbooks.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

Looking forward to visiting you again soon. Can't wait. A real treat it is to peruse a bookshop.

There are some cracking books out right now, but these are a handful that we are championing at Westwood Books this Christmas. All available in store & online on our website. @herdyshepherd.bsky.social @pollyrowena.bsky.social

We’ll be at both of these events next year 😊📚

Thank you to everyone who ventured out in the cold last night for an evening with @pollyrowena & The Company of Owls. If you’d like signed copies of The Company of Owls or Some of Us Just Fall by Polly Atkin they are available in store & online now.

Currently The Coffin Roads by Ian Bradley, so interesting, but longing to start Windswept by @annieworsley.bsky.social Also gathering fiction suggestion, new bookclub. Enjoyed sample of Playground by @RichardPower.bsky.social but now thinking Orbital by Samantha Harvey as win & reviews so positive.

I often hear Tawny owls 🦉calling in the woods surrounding my house & now there's a book to read about them! If you're around Sedbergh in Cumbria uk 🇬🇧 this eve 22 Nov this author talk by @pollyrowena.bsky.social at @westwoodbooks.bsky.social sounds a good plan. Just a shame I'm too far away to go.

Reminder that I'll be @westwoodbooks.bsky.social in Sedbergh talking The Company Of Owls with @katiescribbles.bsky.social tomorrow evening, Friday 22nd Nov. Do come along if you can! www.westwoodbooks.co.uk/collections/... #BookEvent #CumbriaCulture #LiveLit

What’s everyone reading? @heatherthomasuk.bsky.social current read is The Edge of Solitude from @katiescribbles.bsky.social and @paulthomasuk.bsky.social is reading Bloodlines by Chris Wraight.

Bookshops don’t just exist so you can buy the books you want. They also exist so you can browse around and discover the books you did not know you needed.

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

Would be remiss of me not to mention here that the fabulous @pollyrowena.bsky.social will be coming to Westwood Books this Friday to talk about her latest book The Company of Owls. Polly will be in conversation with the lovely @katiescribbles.bsky.social Tickets available online & in the shop.

Good evening BlueSky! We are Westwood Books in Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK. Run by @heatherthomasuk and @paulthomasuk We stock somewhere between 80-100,000 books from newly published to secondhand, rare and antiquarian. Come and see us in England’s official Booktown or find us online.