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Will Smith
@likewinterblue.bsky.social
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Book peddler, book reviewer, book hoarder, academic and freelance writer.
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I call this photo Workington, home of the best kestrel AKA getting the car serviced on a windy day
Kestrel with wings outstretched
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 11d
Del Rey has acquired The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance, an "uplifting and heart-warming" fantasy adventure by Scottish debut author and academic Chiara Bullen. The book will publish globally in July 2026 👇 #BookSky
Del Rey snaps up Chiara Bullen's 'uplifting and heart-warming' fantasy adventure
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November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Love this. Also, how does it all work?
samreadbookseller.bsky.social Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social · Oct 11
Running up to #BookshopDay we were delighted to have @profbookshops.bsky.social in the shop this week, doing bookshop research the best way, by seeing how it all works. Grasmere produced some classic queries for her. You can read a bit about it here: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
Bookshop Bulletin
BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine
www.bookbrunch.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Solid Grasmere heron content
Heron with beak under wing in the field opposite the bookshop on Broadgate
September 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Tomorrow morning I'll be on BBC Three Counties radio answering questions on the ouevre of Will Smith. Classic wireless content.
August 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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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-...
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.
August 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Another sunny day in Grasmere...
Sun going down over Silver How, seen from Stock Lane
August 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Your daily Grasmere heron
Heron balanced on a fence over the river in amongst green fields.
July 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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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?
July 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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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)
July 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Last night's Northern Lights over Grasmere #undertheaurora
Northern lights in the sky above Grasmere. Silhouette of Helm Crag on the horizon. Purple, blue and green light visible in the sky.
May 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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)
February 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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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.
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.
February 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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=%...
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
February 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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
February 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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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).
cmiscellany.bsky.social Charlotte Humphery @cmiscellany.bsky.social · Feb 12
It is the Sceptre Salon tonight and I have a gorgeous rainbow of @sceptrebooks.bsky.social proofs! So many brilliant books coming this year 📚
Bound proofs for MAKING MATTERS by Clare Hunter, WOLF MOON by Arifa Akbar and FOUR MOTHERS by Abigail Leonard
February 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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.
sceptrebooks.bsky.social Sceptre Books @sceptrebooks.bsky.social · Feb 12
Kicking off our #SceptreSalon25 by remembering our amazing 2024 publishing with @mrfeditor.bsky.social, before looking ahead at some of the fantastic books ahead 📚
February 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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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...
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
January 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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...
Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century
Cambridge Core - Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature - Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century
www.cambridge.org
January 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Amazing night sky in Grasmere
A starry sky in Grasmere above snow-topped fells.
January 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Visited a short-eared pal this afternoon. #Owls
short eared owl with ear tufts up sitting on sloping grassy bank against grey sky
January 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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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.
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)
December 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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We saw three deer come bellowing in on Christmas Day in the afternoon.
Three deer staring at the camera in the woods.
December 25, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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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.
December 24, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Moniack Mhor, a beautiful writers centre in Scotland is running a gothic writing course starting in January, all online. Lots of residential, day and online courses on their website too. Check it out.

www.moniackmhor.org.uk

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Snowy winter sunrise with sun through trees
December 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM