Kim Tillyer - witchmountain
@witchmountain.bsky.social
Artist, illustrator and part time bookseller at Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere. Author of Beginner's Guide to #Cyanotype - Search Press 2024
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Hello! It takes a lot of energy to build a new network after so long in "the other place", I'm wary of more precious time lost online but I'm here for art, nature, books & hopefully real community & kindness. Hoping for a few visitors to witchmountain.co.uk too, to keep the wolf from the door.
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I’m thrilled to announce that I will be appearing at this year’s Words by the Water festival in
Keswick on Saturday 14th March to talk about my new book, 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter'. See here for the full festival programme and to book tickets: x.com/cumbriaengli...
Keswick on Saturday 14th March to talk about my new book, 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter'. See here for the full festival programme and to book tickets: x.com/cumbriaengli...
January 20, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be appearing at this year’s Words by the Water festival in
Keswick on Saturday 14th March to talk about my new book, 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter'. See here for the full festival programme and to book tickets: x.com/cumbriaengli...
Keswick on Saturday 14th March to talk about my new book, 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter'. See here for the full festival programme and to book tickets: x.com/cumbriaengli...
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
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Our 20 top selling books at Sam Read's for 2025 look like this! Top 5 were:
1. Rory Stewart, Middleland
2. Polly Atkin, The Company of Owls HB
3. Esther Rutter, All Before Me
4. David Nicholls, You Are Here
5. Stephen G Rae, Folklore of the Lake District
1. Rory Stewart, Middleland
2. Polly Atkin, The Company of Owls HB
3. Esther Rutter, All Before Me
4. David Nicholls, You Are Here
5. Stephen G Rae, Folklore of the Lake District
December 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Our 20 top selling books at Sam Read's for 2025 look like this! Top 5 were:
1. Rory Stewart, Middleland
2. Polly Atkin, The Company of Owls HB
3. Esther Rutter, All Before Me
4. David Nicholls, You Are Here
5. Stephen G Rae, Folklore of the Lake District
1. Rory Stewart, Middleland
2. Polly Atkin, The Company of Owls HB
3. Esther Rutter, All Before Me
4. David Nicholls, You Are Here
5. Stephen G Rae, Folklore of the Lake District
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What a year, and many thanks to all who have supported my writing endeavours
Especially @samreadbookseller.bsky.social and @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social 💚
#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky
Especially @samreadbookseller.bsky.social and @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social 💚
#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky
December 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What a year, and many thanks to all who have supported my writing endeavours
Especially @samreadbookseller.bsky.social and @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social 💚
#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky
Especially @samreadbookseller.bsky.social and @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social 💚
#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky
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Winter is pinker than you'd expect:
December 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Winter is pinker than you'd expect:
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"I am the light of happiness and I am a dancing owl" Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuk artist #womensart
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
"I am the light of happiness and I am a dancing owl" Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuk artist #womensart
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Furness Book Fair, 2026
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Furness Book Fair, 2026
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
We don't condone favouritism, but if there was a more exciting bookshop encounter than @witchmountain.bsky.social had today when Bert the tawny owl and his domesticated humans came into the shop for their winter visit, pray do tell.
We wonder what the tawny owls who live across the street thought?
We wonder what the tawny owls who live across the street thought?
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: Martin Parr in Words and Pictures" by Wendy Jones and Martin Parr
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
alt text in images please
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
alt text in images please
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: Martin Parr in Words and Pictures" by Wendy Jones and Martin Parr
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
alt text in images please
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
alt text in images please
"We keep buying things 'that'll look better and it just doesn't "
#MartinParr by Val Williams, (Phiadon 2002)
#MartinParr by Val Williams, (Phiadon 2002)
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"We keep buying things 'that'll look better and it just doesn't "
#MartinParr by Val Williams, (Phiadon 2002)
#MartinParr by Val Williams, (Phiadon 2002)
I made a booklist on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social about some lovely people I've met (many through my job at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social ) and their beautiful books.
Name Dropping - books by people I've met.
I've met so many lovely writers and artists through working at Sam Read's Bookseller in Grasmere, it's a real highlight of the job.
uk.bookshop.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I made a booklist on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social about some lovely people I've met (many through my job at @samreadbookseller.bsky.social ) and their beautiful books.
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I'm not going back to Substack. I will continue to post my newsletters from Ghost. But I did have to get back in there, just to post this and let people who thought I'd vanished know about this utter nightmare: substack.com/home/post/p-...
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
What follows is a minor modern horror story.
substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I'm not going back to Substack. I will continue to post my newsletters from Ghost. But I did have to get back in there, just to post this and let people who thought I'd vanished know about this utter nightmare: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Popping back for something important…
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Popping back for something important…
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
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Like a living 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 @rory-stewart.bsky.social and @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is now here to watch.
Rory Stewart in conversation with James Rebanks, discussing Rory's new book Middleland
YouTube video by Sam Read Bookseller
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Like a living 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 @rory-stewart.bsky.social and @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is now here to watch.
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Squirrel with acorns in the porch at St Kentigern’s Church, Crosthwaite near Keswick in Cumbria.
#Woodensday
#Woodensday
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Squirrel with acorns in the porch at St Kentigern’s Church, Crosthwaite near Keswick in Cumbria.
#Woodensday
#Woodensday
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READ the REVIEWS!! 👇
#BestSeller 📚 #Mostgifted 🎁
The new Womensart book
'Reframing Women Printmakers'
also support this account & the promotion of women artists
- so thank you! xx 💕
At a bookshop of your choice....
#BestSeller 📚 #Mostgifted 🎁
The new Womensart book
'Reframing Women Printmakers'
also support this account & the promotion of women artists
- so thank you! xx 💕
At a bookshop of your choice....
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
READ the REVIEWS!! 👇
#BestSeller 📚 #Mostgifted 🎁
The new Womensart book
'Reframing Women Printmakers'
also support this account & the promotion of women artists
- so thank you! xx 💕
At a bookshop of your choice....
#BestSeller 📚 #Mostgifted 🎁
The new Womensart book
'Reframing Women Printmakers'
also support this account & the promotion of women artists
- so thank you! xx 💕
At a bookshop of your choice....
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Today marks 2 years since @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social took the helm of the shop. What a busy 2 years it's been! We're celebrating with our biggest event by a very long way next week, only possible because of our brilliant bookselling team and so much community support.
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Today marks 2 years since @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social took the helm of the shop. What a busy 2 years it's been! We're celebrating with our biggest event by a very long way next week, only possible because of our brilliant bookselling team and so much community support.
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To celebrate the rerelease of my short story collection Help The Witch via @swiftpress.bsky.social I’m giving away TWO signed copies each with a beautiful original linoprints by my mum, from the book (now v rare & worth £40).
To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
To celebrate the rerelease of my short story collection Help The Witch via @swiftpress.bsky.social I’m giving away TWO signed copies each with a beautiful original linoprints by my mum, from the book (now v rare & worth £40).
To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
My most popular recent Instagram post is this flaming marshmallow on a stick, not the art I spent hours making 😏... still, when seen together like this they do have matching eerie and Autumnal colour schemes.
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
My most popular recent Instagram post is this flaming marshmallow on a stick, not the art I spent hours making 😏... still, when seen together like this they do have matching eerie and Autumnal colour schemes.
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#NationalDayOnWriting
in Cumbrian dialects, 'hullet' is owl. A bird of magic and wisdom; a symbol of the divine feminine; of the moon; and light in the darkess of night
from: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky
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in Cumbrian dialects, 'hullet' is owl. A bird of magic and wisdom; a symbol of the divine feminine; of the moon; and light in the darkess of night
from: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky
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October 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
#NationalDayOnWriting
in Cumbrian dialects, 'hullet' is owl. A bird of magic and wisdom; a symbol of the divine feminine; of the moon; and light in the darkess of night
from: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky
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in Cumbrian dialects, 'hullet' is owl. A bird of magic and wisdom; a symbol of the divine feminine; of the moon; and light in the darkess of night
from: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky
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I mean, Peintmaking has to be worth checking out doesn't it 🙄😂
#Cumbria Printmakers Out of Ink exhibition opens at the Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth tomorrow with an evening PV.
#handmadeprints #peintmaking #LakeDistrict (and Uffington 😏!)
#handmadeprints #peintmaking #LakeDistrict (and Uffington 😏!)
October 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I mean, Peintmaking has to be worth checking out doesn't it 🙄😂
#Cumbria Printmakers Out of Ink exhibition opens at the Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth tomorrow with an evening PV.
#handmadeprints #peintmaking #LakeDistrict (and Uffington 😏!)
#handmadeprints #peintmaking #LakeDistrict (and Uffington 😏!)
October 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#Cumbria Printmakers Out of Ink exhibition opens at the Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth tomorrow with an evening PV.
#handmadeprints #peintmaking #LakeDistrict (and Uffington 😏!)
#handmadeprints #peintmaking #LakeDistrict (and Uffington 😏!)
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Spotlight on #TheCompanyOfOwls paperback - officially out tomorrow - though if you know anything about these tawnies, you'll know they do what they want when they want to do it, so no surprise some of them have branched early. Let me know if you spot one roosting near you! #BookSky #NatureWriting
October 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Spotlight on #TheCompanyOfOwls paperback - officially out tomorrow - though if you know anything about these tawnies, you'll know they do what they want when they want to do it, so no surprise some of them have branched early. Let me know if you spot one roosting near you! #BookSky #NatureWriting
The one exhibition you
need to see if you're in London this month 💗 www.jacobsongallery.com/exhibitions/... #WilliamTillyer #painting
need to see if you're in London this month 💗 www.jacobsongallery.com/exhibitions/... #WilliamTillyer #painting
William Tillyer: The Watering Place | 9 October 2025
Browse Bernard Jacobson Gallery's exhibitions.
www.jacobsongallery.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The one exhibition you
need to see if you're in London this month 💗 www.jacobsongallery.com/exhibitions/... #WilliamTillyer #painting
need to see if you're in London this month 💗 www.jacobsongallery.com/exhibitions/... #WilliamTillyer #painting
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Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
img: Light: Gunnerton, Northumberland: William Tillyer — David Williams, photograph
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Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
img: Light: Gunnerton, Northumberland: William Tillyer — David Williams, photograph
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March 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
img: Light: Gunnerton, Northumberland: William Tillyer — David Williams, photograph
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Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
img: Light: Gunnerton, Northumberland: William Tillyer — David Williams, photograph
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