ALT Snowy twilight. The bookshop lights reflect on the snow covered Broadgate in Grasmere. Snowman on Moss Parrock.

ALT Snow-covered view of a field gate, bench and trees from Easedale Road looking up to Stone Arthur.

ALT Sam Read's and a snowy Broadgate House seen looking down the hill from the Easedale Road. Snow on the hedges and dry stone walls. Walkers in the road.

ALT The bookshop window glowing in the foreground as the evening's mists drift over the fells in the background.

ALT Broadgate in snow. Bookshop on the corner seen from the Moss Parrock bus stop.

ALT Lighted bookshop windows against a misty fell backdrop

ALT Bookshop with autumn sunshine and fells behind.

ALT Bookshop against snowy fells

ALT View of Sam Read's from Moss Parrock as the light disappears

ALT Sunshine on bookshop, seen from Moss Parrock bus stop. Glimpses of white on the fell tops beyond.

ALT Dove Cottage seen from the road with snow on the roof and more falling

ALT The River Rothay and snowy fields beyond. Misty fells a bit whiter than usual in the distance.

ALT Snow on the path alongside the A591 looking towards Keswick. Silhouettes of bare branches against the snow.

ALT Snowy fields with walkers and a solitary dog walker. The river looking a grey mirror in the foreground. Bare branches of trees.

ALT Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (Puffin)

ALT Winter sunshine on the bookshop with fells behind, seen from Broadgate, opposite Moss Parrock.

ALT The British Book Awards 2023 - Independent Bookshop of the Year - Regional Finalist - Sponsored by Gardners

ALT 'Nibbies' trophies at The British Book Awards

ALT The bookshop doorway seen from the corner of Easedale Road, Grasmere

ALT Bookshop bathed in sunshine with glowing fells, blue sky and amber leaves on trees at Butharlyp Howe.

ALT Sam Read's lit up in the encroaching darkness

ALT Someone dressed as a herdwick, with walking stick and pram full of lambs. Stone wall and fields behind.

ALT The bookshop light shining out in the misty autumn evening

ALT The bookshop with deep red fells in the distance

ALT The bookshop in sunshine with blue sky and snow on the tops of fells beyond.

ALT A view of Sam Read's from Moss Parrock, with sunshine on the fells beyond

ALT A wet view down Broadgate

ALT Street view of broadgate , the main street, in Grasmere in thick snow in December 2023, with a 6 foot snow man on the green in the foreground, in front of Sam Read Bookseller, a corner shop in a victorian slate building, with lit up windows glowing in the white.

ALT Stagecoach bus reading 'Bowness Pier 599' at the bus stop. A view of the bookshop, Heaton Cooper Studio, various buildings on Broadgate and dark brown fells beyond.

ALT The bookshop glowing with light on Christmas Eve

ALT Bookshop windows throwing light out into a murky misty lakeland landscape with fells behind. Seen from the corner of the Langdale Road.

ALT Snow on the Easedale Road corner onto Broadgate in Grasmere.

ALT Sam Read's in sunshine with blue sky above and autumnal golden light on the fells and remaining leaves of Butharlyp Howe trees. Seen from Moss Parrock.

ALT A rainbow appearing to disappear into the bookshop in Grasmere. Seen from Moss Parrock.

ALT Banner on the left reads: The British Book Awards 2024 - North England - Independent Bookshop of the Year - Regional & Country Finalist - Sponsored by Gardners. Photo of the bookshop in the sunshine on the right hand side.

ALT The local books in the OTHER bookshop window

ALT View from the corner of the Langdale Road, Grasmere looking down Broadgate. Bookshop visible in the mid-distance. Fells basking in sunshine. Blue sky!

ALT Sam Read's in Grasmere, lit up against the dark

ALT Bright winter sunshine falls across the top of Broadgate House, the red phone box on Broadgate and the fells beyond.

ALT A view down Broadgate in Grasmere with autumn sunshine on the trees and fells beyond the bookshop

ALT Jen Beagin, Big Swiss (Faber)

ALT Paw prints in white and black against the red sprayed edges of the novel.

ALT Street scene. Lights from the bookshop window reflect on the waterlogged College Street. Clouds beyond the bookshop and puddles everywhere. Fells still visible.

ALT Bookshelves in the bookshop

ALT Sam Read's seen from Moss Parrock with sunlight waning on the fells behind

ALT A misty morning in the village. Rain on the street. Fells just visible behind the bookshop, seen from the Moss Parrock bus stop.

ALT Sunshine on the bookshop. Sun and clouds over Butharlyp How and the bottom of the Easedale Road, seen from College Street, Grasmere.

ALT Sunshine on the bookshop and fells beyond. Seen from Moss Parrock bus stop, looking down Broadgate.

ALT Sunshine on fells and a red phone box beyond the bookshop. Rainbow disappearing into the bookshop sign. Sun on the bookshop window on College Street.