Sam Read Bookseller
@SReadBooks
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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
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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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
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
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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
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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: https://t.co/pIvIWmJcut
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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: https://t.co/pIvIWmJcut
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Our upcoming event with @RoryStewartUK and @herdyshepherd1 has made the front page of the @CWHerald! Pieces in Rory's new book #Middleland first featured in the pages of the Herald. Join us on Tues 28th Oct at 7pm at Westmorland Hall, Kendal to hear more. https://t.co/czOP2YsO0z
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This autumn, you can hear @RoryStewartUK discussing his new book Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders. For dates, details and to book, go here: https://t.co/Y6oMYomLfd
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On Saturday 13th September, from 2pm, @KellyDavisPoet is reading from The Lost Art of Ironing at Windermere Library. It's the first in a series of events hosted by the Lake District Holocaust Project entitled 'Memory / Place / Ghost'.
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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: https://t.co/czOP2YtlQ7
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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: https://t.co/czOP2YtlQ7
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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
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Lovely to pop into the gorgeous @SReadBooks in Grasmere this morning and sign copies of The Postal Paths.
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It was lovely to have an excuse to visit beautiful Grasmere #Cumbria after being invited by @SReadBooks to sign copies of The Postal Paths. And then, of course, it was a walk down Huntingstile Lonning!
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"A great many must be walking over England nowadays for the primary object of writing books: It has not been decided whether this is a worthy object" - Edward Thomas. #NationalWalkingMonth
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If you want to spend two days seeing this and learning what we’ve learnt, and questioning it… because that’s healthy too… then our Grazing School is in July with the brilliant @cags_grindrod
https://t.co/sNEHEPUG90
rootsofnature.co.uk
James Rebanks and Caroline Grindrod come together to offer you grazing school, a short farm based introduction to regenerative grazing.
And grazing ecology is really the biggest win of all It is quite frankly the secret to making ecosystems sing And amazingly I can do it with sheep and cows if I am paying attention and know what I’m doing I feel like I just learnt how to farm right after fifty years
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Look after our National Park: If you're affected by flycamping and littering where you live in Cumbria, download our poster and display it around your community:
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In need of a read for May Bank Holiday? We've got you covered. With 32 books to choose from, the Nero Book Awards 2023 and 2024 shortlists are your one-stop-shop for reading inspo. Which one will you be reading on this long weekend? 📖💐
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