Sam Read Bookseller

Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Tweets from @likewinterblue and @pollyrowena. insta: samreadbookseller

[Cumbria Uni English @CumbriaEnglish]

'multifaceted, dynamic and unfailingly readable' (Professor Margaret Mackey): 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter' by our own @DrPennyBradshaw is published today! @BloomsburyAcad 🥳📚🍃🍄https://t.co/oqDDc0XzRV

[Cumbria Uni English @CumbriaEnglish]

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: https://t.co/7vcBdcyIIx

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

Like an anecdote from #Middleland about Cumbrian small business we've been extra busy spinning many plates, so it's taken us longer than planned, but the captioned video of our fantastic event with @RoryStewartUK and @herdyshepherd1 is now here to watch.
https://t.co/h9SdhTLVVU

[Tom Palmer @tompalmerauthor]

A brief love-letter to my favourite bookshops, @thoughtfulspots in Halifax and
@SReadBooks in Grasmere.
For @book_tokens and @scholasticuk.

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

@mermaidemyoll @likewinterblue @pollyrowena @herdyshepherd1 @RoryStewartUK We've got some signed bookplated ones! We'll be in touch!

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

Today marks 2 years since @likewinterblue & @pollyrowena took the helm at the bookshop! We're celebrating by working on our huge event next week in Kendal, with @herdyshepherd1 and @RoryStewartUK in conversation to mark publication of Rory's new book #Middleland #ChooseBookshops

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

Here’s @likewinterblue opening the doors to this morning, on the 1st anniversary of our new stewardship of this venerable bookshop. What a year! Thanks so much for all your support and custom. Here’s to the books, and all readers! #ChooseBookshops #IndieBookshops #Grasmere

[Faeryland Grasmere @faerymere]

#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

[Cumbria Uni English @CumbriaEnglish]

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 📚🍃

[Jellybooks Ltd. @Jellybooks]

'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
https://t.co/Uwjvr96Wgp

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

A halloween books cartoon for @GuardianBooks

[MattStaniek @MattStaniek]

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 https://t.co/Z8svuQkFOO to be the first to know

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

@georgehostelcat @RoryStewartUK @JonathanCape @herdyshepherd1 We always think it’s better to feel you can have heard more than it dragged on, but the whole event including Q&A was 1hr 15, and the conversation went over a bit so the questions were shorter than they could have been! Glad the dog got a walk out of it.

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

The answer is Cumbria! Congratulations to @RoryStewartUK on the publication of #Middleland today from @JonathanCape. We’ll be sharing the full conversation with @herdyshepherd1 before too long but this is all you need to know for now!

[Peter Parker @PParkerWriting]

“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

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

Happy publication day to @RoryStewartUK and #Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders! We have *signed* copies in the shop and on our virtual bookshelves here: https://t.co/VWOV6MXhtE

[Lisa Hobson @LisaJayneHobson]

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 @SReadBooks]

@spanglishdan It was indeed! We’ll be sharing it once we have time to tidy up audio and captions.

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

Find someone who looks at you the way @RoryStewartUK looks at @herdyshepherd1!
.
.
Thanks to Alex from Atkin Media for these fantastic photos. https://t.co/3izv3dxHvv

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

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 🙏🏻

[Sam Read Bookseller @SReadBooks]

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!