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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'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
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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…
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A brief love-letter to my favourite bookshops, @thoughtfulspots in Halifax and
@SReadBooks in Grasmere.
For @book_tokens and @scholasticuk.
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#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
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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
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'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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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."
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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
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“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
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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 😢
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!
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When you are in conversation with @RoryStewartUK tomorrow night in front of 700 people and doing your homework on his new book
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With an amazingly supportive landlord, we’ve been involved in restoring a whole hillside near to where we live
A mixture of creating wood pasture/savannah type habitat, wetland restoration, and regenerative grazing
It’s going to be EPIC
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Great start to the 7th series of 'Cultural Landscapes' talks tonight: @pollyrowena on 'Companions of Nature' - launching the paperback edition of her book, 'The Company of Owls'
@CumbriaEnglish @DrPennyBradshaw @SReadBooks
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
The first event in our 2025-26 Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk by @pollyrowena: 'Companions of nature: sickbed consolations & mimic hootings', on Tue 7 Oct from 6.30pm at our Ambleside campus. Details & booking link here: tinyurl.com/2nsny3nc
ALT Photograph credit: Shaw and Shaw
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
Join us on our Ambleside campus next Tuesday evening for this free talk with the brilliant @pollyrowena. All welcome - details and booking link can be found below 🍃📚🦉
The first event in our 2025-26 Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk by @pollyrowena: 'Companions of nature: sickbed consolations & mimic hootings', on Tue 7 Oct from 6.30pm at our Ambleside campus. Details & booking link here: tinyurl.com/2nsny3nc
ALT Photograph credit: Shaw and Shaw
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
This autumn, you can hear @RoryStewartUK discussing his new book Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders.
For dates, details and to book, go here: linktr.ee/middlelandevents
Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
We're delighted to be hosting @RoryStewartUK in Kendal in conversation with @herdyshepherd1 to celebrate the launch of Rory's new book #Middleland (Tuesday 28th Oct 7pm). Book tickets and pre-order a signed copy to pickup on the night here: betterboxoffice.co.uk/westmo…
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
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Without a shadow of doubt the stand out book of the year, speaking as a lover of maps. @BillShannon19 your book is a treasure and will be adored and needless to say will consulted often by me and others.
Our overall winner for the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year Award 2025 goes to
‘Cumbria 1000 Years of Maps by William D Shannon.’ A lifetime of love for the Lakeland landscape is expressed in this work, published by @ByLakeland
