Winter sunshine on the bookshop

Winter sunshine on the bookshop

For us 2024 means: new name, new look - same prize!
Formerly the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Writers' Prize shortlists land 9th January

3 books, 3 categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction & Poetry
All nominated by the Academy
#9onthe9th #writersprize2024

Which books would you choose?

Glimpses of a rainbow from the bookshop this morning.

I've just realised I'll be letting the new year into the #bookshop when it reopens - should I observe any customs such as carrying coal/logs or dressing as a chimney sweep? #newyearcustoms #talldarkstrangers

New Year's Eve bookshop-adjacent jackdaw.

We're open today for a last few hours of 2023 book browsing then taking a rest on New Year's Day before returning to the bookface on Tuesday 2nd January... thanks again to everyone who has supported us this year!

Sightings of Keir Starmer reported around Grasmere and we've seen one man who looked a bit like Tobias Ellwood but neither can firmly be crossed off the bookshop's 'Spotter's Guide to MPs' until confirmed at the shelves.

Customer: 'We've acquired a bookshop'
Me: *piqued interest* 'How is it going? What stage are you at?'
Customer: 'Well, I'm sad to say it's a Waterstones'
Morning to the conversations at cross-purposes crowd.

'England! England after many years! How was he going to like it?' Probably not so much when murder strikes in the quiet English village of Wychwood. Agatha Christie's #MurderIsEasy gets a new adaptation on BBC One tonight and tomorrow. samreadbooks.co.uk/product/agatha…

Five Leaves Bookshop will soon have a vacancy for a bookseller or senior bookseller. Three days a week, pay based on pro-rata £27636/£31782. Interested? Email [email protected] with Vacancy in the subject heading to receive a job description.
The post is permanent and

A wet return to the bookshelves on the third day of Christmas.

This Christmas tree has a new lake view as the rain continues to fall in Grasmere...

Hark! The 24th advent door opens to... Mummers! Carollers! Frost fairs! The Wordsworths calmly reading Chaucer... #ALakeDistrictChristmas delves into Lakeland Yuletides gone by, all compiled by the very merry Alan Cleaver samreadbooks.co.uk/product/alan-c…