Will Smith

Love this. Also, how does it all work?

Heron with beak under wing in the field opposite the bookshop on Broadgate

Solid Grasmere heron content

Tomorrow morning I'll be on BBC Three Counties radio answering questions on the ouevre of Will Smith. Classic wireless content.

Lovely. I will be at the bookshelves tomorrow, Saturday, for all Grasmere book needs. Hope you have a good weekend either way!

Photo of Rory Stewart on the left hand side, image of Rory's new book Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders (Jonathan Cape) in the centre, and on the right hand side, a photo of James Rebanks.

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-...

Sun going down over Silver How, seen from Stock Lane

Another sunny day in Grasmere...

Me on Radio Cumbria this morning, introducing Jenn Ashworth's new coast-to-coast book "path books are having a time..."

Such nostalgia for seed tray gardens.

Heron balanced on a fence over the river in amongst green fields.

Your daily Grasmere heron

You should have seen his seedtray garden. One of the best.

Good to see the Albanian market for Postal Paths catered for there.

Amazing to see a photo with vivid childhood memories. This is the side of the Entwistle Cup, which I recall as being *the* hotly contested trophy (for children in Suffolk) at what used to be the Barrow and District Horticultural Society Show... @jessasatomp.bsky.social is that you on there too?

I spent £4.20 on @theobserveruk.bsky.social and Erica Wagner’s comment piece on Raynor Winn is missing its last sentence. Can I get any money back? (from the Observer not Raynor Winn which is obviously less likely)

Northern lights in the sky above Grasmere. Silhouette of Helm Crag on the horizon. Purple, blue and green light visible in the sky.

Last night's Northern Lights over Grasmere #undertheaurora

Book tip! This diary of a Lakeland Dr turned RAMC Lieutenant is fantastic on the disconnect between the intimate violence & filth of the trenches and surrounding countryside, and also deeply moving w fragmentary glimpses of two men trying to rekindle a love affair against the backdrop of war (1/2)

Teal coloured square with background of shape of the British Isles. Top left corner has the golden nib logo of the nibbies with 2025 under it and The 35th British Book Awards to the right. Top right has sponsored by Gardners. Centre text reads: independent bookshop of the year, regional and country finalist, north england.

Very proud to be a regional finalist for the Independent Bookshop of the Year once more. It may be #TheNibbies 35th anniversary year, and Sam Read Bookseller's 138th, but it is judged on @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 1st full year of stewardship, so extra special to us.

Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede (Virago Modern Classic) on the bookshop counter with bookshelves behind

Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus (Virago Modern Classic) on the bookshop counter with bookshelves behind

Rumer Godden Virago Modern Classic reissues, spine on on the bookshop table, standing next to Elizabeth Fair, Rose Macaulay and Elizabeth von Arnim

RUMER HAS IT that these amazing Virago Modern Classic editions are published today! Rumer Godden's novels with excellent cover illustrations by Joanna Lisowiec. www.samreadbooks.co.uk/s/search?q=%...

SO excited about Ella Risbridger's In Love with Love: The Persistence and Joy of Romantic Fiction, published in November by @sceptrebooks.bsky.social #SceptreSalon25

Enjoying the life stream of this salon! Wolf Moon by @arifa.bsky.social sounds great and of course super excited for #TheParallelPath by fabulous @jennashworth.bsky.social. Also for Ella Risbridger's new one and all the EM Forster reissues (always a Forster stan).

PRE ORDER - Jenn Ashworth, The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North | Sam Read Bookseller Online Shop *Please note this title is not published until the 17th July 2025*Burnt-out and in need of retreat, Jenn Ashworth emerged from lockdown with a compulsive need to walk - and to walk away. Armed with li...

Hugely excited about @jennashworth.bsky.social's coast-to-coast memoir The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North coming in July... www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

I'm loving this evening's #SceptreSalon25, packed with exciting books for the year ahead but also brilliant for programming a simple livestream for booksellers outside of London to watch too.

Too kind! Yes, that's the best. I think it's a fascinating first hand account and it's only just been published in a very small press edition.

Dr Reginald Hannay Fothergill, In Search of Honour: The War Diary of Dr Reginald Hannay Fothergill (ed. Dave Dunn) | Sam Read Bookseller Online Shop The unique record of a country town doctor who swaps his genteel practice in the Lake District for the horrors of the Western Front in a bid to find 'honour', these diaries also capture a seldom-heard...

Oh yes, can I send you a copy Luke? It's this recently transcribed diary... www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/dr-r...

hardcover book 'the harder I fight the more I love you', a memoir, by Neko Case, with photo of a young girl on front, holding an orange cat, and a shadowy monster wolf behind her. The book is upright on mossy tarmac ground in the sun, with a cat standing behind it, in the sun, blurry in the background.

tabby cat standing in front of hardcover book, 'hardcover book 'the harder I fight the more I love you', a memoir, by Neko Case, with photo of a young girl on front, holding an orange cat, and a shadowy monster wolf behind her, which is propped upright on stone paving slab in front of open wooden garden gate

Happiest of publication days to Neko Case and her memoir The Harder I Fight The More I Love You out today from @headlinebooks.bsky.social.

Available now from our shelves in Grasmere or in our online shop, as modelled here by our four-footed marketing trainee.
www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/neko...

Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century Cambridge Core - Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature - Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century

Publication day for an incredible book! Free OA download for Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century: Hidden Behind the Bookshelves by Prof Samantha Rayner www.cambridge.org/core/element...

A starry sky in Grasmere above snow-topped fells.

Amazing night sky in Grasmere

short eared owl with ear tufts up sitting on sloping grassy bank against grey sky

Visited a short-eared pal this afternoon. #Owls

Stack of books inside the shop with bookshelves behind. The stack of books are: 1. James Rebanks, The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) 2. Helen Rebanks, The Farmer’s Wife (Faber) 3. Tom Palmer, Angel of Grasmere (Barrington Stoke) 4. Kim Tillyer, Beginner’s Guide to Cyanotype (Search Press) 5. Katie Hale, The Edge of Solitude (Canongate) 6. Ellie Wood, The Restaurant at the Heart of the Lakes (HarperNorth) 7. Polly Atkin, The Company of Owls (Elliott and Thompson) 8. E.M. Ward, Forest Silver (British Library) 9. Tom Chesshyre, Lost in the Lakes (Summersdale) 10. Esther Rutter, All Before Me (Granta) 11. Polly Atkin, Recovering Dorothy (Saraband) 12. Lemn Sissay, Let the Light Pour In (Canongate) 13. Polly Atkin, Some of Us Just Fall (Sceptre) 14. David Nicholls, You Are Here (Sceptre) 15. Grasmere History Group, Grasmere in 55½ Buildings (GHG)

A book stack of 2024 bookshop bestsellers! These books have been flying off the shelves in Grasmere this year. The top two spots go to Cumbrian book royalty @herdyshepherd.bsky.social and Helen Rebanks.

Three deer staring at the camera in the woods.

We saw three deer come bellowing in on Christmas Day in the afternoon.

Am about to begin a reread of this gem (for book club) ECR Lorac’s Fell Murder. Set right outside my village. So grateful to @samreadbookseller.bsky.social for introducing me to Lorac.