Good fortune to bookshops everywhere for the busy season, including Waterstones Arndale, Bookends Carlisle @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social, Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social and Waterstones at John Lewis in Cheadle.

Online pre-orders also count! www.bookscumbria.com/product/uk-b...

What a beautiful book! Pregorder from Bookends Carlisle, Bookends Keswick and online at www.bookscumbria.com

That very long wait is over and #TheFinalVow is winging its way to you around the UK and the world, and also to @CrownMitre Carlisle for Thursday's launch.Mega thanks to all of you but especially to Mike @MWCravenUK.bsky.social who signed & dedicated a few hundred books yesterday

This Thursday night, 7.30pm # Old Fire Station Carlisle talking all things #Beatles - @StuartMaconie.bsky.social in conversation with Tom Speight. Tickets at the shop and online www.bookscumbria.com/product/cumb...

@stuartmaconie.bsky.social will be @ Old Fire Station Carlisle on Thurs 19 June for book chat on his new book. Tickets from the shop and online www.bookscumbria.com/product/cumb...

Happy to have supplied many of the photos for ‘England’s Everest’, the story of the 24 hr Fell Record, now standing at an incredible 78 peaks. All proceeds to Keswick Mountain Rescue. Sold by independent sellers @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social

@stuartmaconie.bsky.social will be @ Old Fire Station Carlisle on Thurs 19 June for book chat on his new book. Tickets from the shop and online www.bookscumbria.com/product/cumb...

Thankyou Joanne, and safe travels today. It was such a lovely event with you and #HelenMillican discussing #Vianne- followed by some great audience questions.

Bit breezy & cloudy in Keswick today but why not brighten the day with tickets for @joannechocolat.bsky.social @tbtlake.bsky.social Tues 3rd at 7.30pm. On 01768 774411 and online www.theatrebythelake.com/event/an-eve...

This is where I'll be: if you can make one of these events, please don't forget to say hello (and maybe get a violet cream and a spritz of Vianne's Confession...)

Just a week til @joannechocolat comes to @tbtlake - a @WBTWKeswick festival extra event! Tickets online or from the theatre box office 0176877441. Come along and meet Joanne and find out more about Vianne's life before she makes chocolate her life! www.theatrebythelake.com/event/an-eve...

This is the fab Bookends of Keswick who now have signed copies of 'Trailing Clouds of Glory'. In fact, a lady bought a copy while I was there signing them. Fame at last.🙂 And they play Nick Drake while you browse. @kg520.bsky.social @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social

Oh, look, it's that book again! Catbells and Derwentwater as seen from the road to Watendlath. It's Watendlath Beck that makes the Lodore Falls as per the famous Robert Southey poem - but the beck is almost dry. Book available from @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social and @samreadbookseller.bsky.social

A fabulous day out in Carlisle visiting friends & exhibitions (Sheila Fell at Tullie House) plus bonus visits to see the cathedral & sign copies of my book in @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social

If you go into @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social ask any of the staff to look at a Hayloft book - I didn’t write them all but have published them.

Popped up to Keswick on friday to sign more copies of #TheCompanyOfOwls for @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social - catch them before they fly away!

Trip to the Lake District to talk about the Greek goddesses? Yes please! Join me at Words By The Water Keswick next month, with books sold by @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social 📚⚡️⛵️ www.wordsbythewaterkeswick.com/events/natal...

I forgot one - inevitably - in between! A workshop for Words By The Water festival by @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social @tbtlake.bsky.social in Keswick on writing with, to and about birds. After that I'm going up to StAnza to soak up some poetry. www.wordsbythewaterkeswick.com/events/polly...

Squashed near the bottom of the pile is Corpse Roads of Cumbria by me and wife, Lesley. Thanks to Bookends for doing the hard work of selling our book.

I'm involved in two events at Words by the Water in Keswick, Cumbria this March: A chat about my book, Postal Paths, (due out in April) and a workshop guiding people through the basics of bookbinding. Details here... www.wordsbythewaterkeswick.com/events/

Our 2024 Top 10 bestsellers pile has @herdyshepherd.bsky.social in the top spot with the beautiful #PlaceofTides Congratulations James! Look closely and you'll see that @MWCraven.bsky.social has THREE books in that pile-so congratulations x 3, Mike! Again,Cumbrian books rule OK.

In Cumbrian dialects, 'chitty' or 'chatterhen' is wren The wren is 'King of all Birds' and symbolizes life, energy and good fortune. Harming it or its nest is strictly forbidden, and anyone who breaks this taboo will die from a lightning strike! #folklore #birds #Cumbria 📷 Andy Rouse

Some nature reading for the winter nights. These gems were found at @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social Keswick. #books

Art deco magnificence at the former pencil museum in Keswick #Cumbria #artdeco

Here's the book, makes an excellent gift if you're Cumbrian or not! Buy it from @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social and support small business #christmas #yule

Day 2 of our Advent calendar is the beautiful Christmas window of Bookends Carlisle as designed by Catherine Moss-Luffram

It's our bestselling book of 2024, and the signed indie edition is a little beauty- www.bookscumbria.com/product/uk-b...

Hello, and here's Day 1 of our Advent calendar. Keswick shop's courtyard looking lovely and festive with our recycled pallets.🎄🎄🎄

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1 ‘Winter Village’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Day 8: Bookends, Carlisle & Keswick, 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 💙📚

Next year, Murder Squad will be 25 years old. To celebrate this friendship, we’re running a short story competition. There will be prizes and the chance to join us at our birthday party. Details here: murdersquad.co.uk Please spread the word.

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

Our mission is to bring Scottish themes as well as Scottish writers to London. So we are thrilled to have the exceptional @anncleeves.bsky.social joining us next Saturday 30 Nov. If you love #Shetland you won’t want to miss this. www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...

Eight days ago, we started with 0 follower(s), now we're on 1200 +. Not sure where you all came from this past week, but it's great to see this platform flourishing!

A spellbinding story of friendship, history and redemption on a remote Norwegian island. 'The Place of Tides' by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social SIGNED copies available @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social and @samreadbookseller.bsky.social 📖 book sample www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Cows going well on the winter stockpile - 1200ft up on a frosty morning and in rude health

Today- Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite in the distance, the view from Walla Crag, taken by Jennifer on her day off from our Keswick shop

Oh my word (literally!)what a revelation! My name is Gwenda and I suffer from poor circulation in the extremities of my feet and feel nothing in them so often.

Word of the Day is ‘gwenders’, from old Cornish dialect: a disagreeable tingling in the extremities (or no sensation at all) due to extreme cold.

Busy time of year! Will be doing readings, inc. some in dialect, at this lovely seasonal event in Ambleside organised by Dave Felton of Countrystride podcasts and Inspired by Lakeland publishing. Come and be festive! Tickets can be bought here: www.inspiredbylakeland.co.uk/products/cou...

Leading up to Christmas is a time that indie businesses make the majority of their income for the whole year If you want to support indie bookshops there's a growing list/directory at www.indiebookshops.com

Just caught up with this shocking news about Joe Cornish. Alex has put this together… Re-posts appreciated 👍 @rkphotographic.bsky.social 🙁 www.alexnail.com/assynt-MRT-p...

Good Morning all we’re going to be more active on here I’ve followed a whole bunch of accounts but if I’ve missed you please say hello we’re a family run bookshop based in #Keswick specialising in great quality footwear and brands you may not have heard of but you should explore 👍🥾🧦 #cumbria #boots

Really looking forward to chatting Owls 🦉 with @pollyrowena.bsky.social in Sedbergh #Cumbria on Friday!

560 followers in one day! Thankyou everyone - at this rate we'll soon eXpel the other one.

Hello! On here for both shops, cos I [Gwenda] think I might just manage a joint platform as well as X & Threads. Please follow for news of Cumbrian books & authors,special publisher indie editions,indie shops, our events, & book festivals like #WordsbytheWater Profile pic- our youngest bookseller!