Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Tweets from @likewinterblue and @pollyrowena. insta: samreadbookseller
Joined December 2013
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
'multifaceted, dynamic and unfailingly readable' (Professor Margaret Mackey): 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter' by our own @DrPennyBradshaw is published today! @BloomsburyAcad š„³ššštinyurl.com/3dxdm2xb
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
10 Dec 2025
Tickets are now on sale for a book launch event to celebrate the forthcoming publication of our own @DrPennyBradshawās āAn A-Z of Beatrix Potterā: 2-4pm on Saturday 10 January at our Ambleside campus. Further details & booking link can be found here: trybooking.com/uk/events/lanā¦
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18 Nov 2025
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.
youtu.be/z68P9XcgIg4?si=9dNfā¦
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
7 Nov 2025
A brief love-letter to my favourite bookshops, @thoughtfulspots in Halifax and
@SReadBooks in Grasmere.
For @book_tokens and @scholasticuk.
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
3 Nov 2025
#SkelwithForce waterfall already in stramash with another 100mm of rain due in the #LakeDistrict over the next couple of days. This could become disruptiveā¦
#SkelwithBridge #RiverBrathay #Rain
@NorthWestFoss @StormHour
@ThePhotoHour @bbcweather
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
3 Nov 2025
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 šš
8 Oct 2025
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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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
2 Nov 2025
'Middleland' by @RoryStewartUK
#shopindie and buy @ColesBooks @GoldenHareBooks @BookaBookshop @BooksMaldon @LinghamsBooks @Sherlock_Pages @SReadBooks @falmouthbooks @ForumBooks @BooksUpstairs @padstowbooks @bertsbooks
š sample to peek inside and share
jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/ā¦
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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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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
31 Oct 2025
In just one week, we release our most personal film yet.
āØOrigin ā A Journey to Find the Source of Windermere reveals the truth of what is happening to Englandās most iconic body of water.
Clean water isnāt a luxury.āØItās a basic human right.āØAnd itās time we stand together to protect it.
Windermere should be the symbol of freshwater in this country, and itās 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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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
30 Oct 2025
āGluts of rain, much thunder.Ā The trees & hedges are much broken, & the thatch is torn.Ā Much damage done to the shipping: chimneys, & some houses blown down in London.ā
Gilbert White, 30 October 1777
#gilbertwhite #selborne
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30 Oct 2025
The answer is Cumbria! Congratulations to @RoryStewartUK on the publication of #Middleland today from @JonathanCape. Weāll be sharing the full conversation with @herdyshepherd1 before too long but this is all you need to know for now!
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30 Oct 2025
Happy publication day to @RoryStewartUK and #Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders! We have *signed* copies in the shop and on our virtual bookshelves here: samreadbooks.co.uk/product/rā¦
ALT Rory Stewart, Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders (Jonathan Cape) standing on a stone wall in Grasmere with autumn trees, fell and grey sky beyond
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
30 Oct 2025
Few days in the Lakes with the kids. Lovely cottage, great food, book buying at @SReadBooks, a little walkingā¦just not long enough! Horrific M6 traffic both ways did not help š¢
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29 Oct 2025
Find someone who looks at you the way @RoryStewartUK looks at @herdyshepherd1!
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Thanks to Alex from Atkin Media for these fantastic photos. atkinmedia.com/
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29 Oct 2025
I think you get a real sense from these great photos of what a generous and thoughtful conversation it was. #Middleland #Cumbria #RuralLife
ALT rory looking serious and talking to crowd and james smiling
ALT james reaching out to crowd and rory smiling at him as he speaks
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
29 Oct 2025
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 šš»
29 Oct 2025
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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29 Oct 2025
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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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
27 Oct 2025
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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23 Oct 2025
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
ALT Sunshine on Bookshop and fells beyond, reflected in a puddle on Broadgate
23 Oct 2024
Hereās @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. Hereās to the books, and all readers! #ChooseBookshops #IndieBookshops #Grasmere
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Sam Read Bookseller retweeted
6 Oct 2025
With an amazingly supportive landlord, weāve 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
Itās going to be EPIC
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