Sam Read Bookseller Ltd

14/08/2026

"You don't water the books?" Despite this parched summer, the bookshop has been looking beautiful swathed in sunshine.

08/07/2026

'Boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts...' Ahead of the Men's World Cup quarter finals, why not check in with some footballing reading which shows a bit of quality:

⚽ Chris Evans, How to Win the World Cup (Bloomsbury)
⚽ Alan Tomlinson, What is Fifa For? (Bristol UP)
⚽ JL Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup (Penguin Classics)
⚽ Daisy Christodoulou, I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR (Swift)
⚽ Tom Williams, Va-Va-Voom: The Modern History of French Football (Bloomsbury)
⚽ Felix White, Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Constable)
⚽ Christoph Biermann, Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution (Blink)
⚽ Tony Adams with Ian Ridley, 1996 (Floodlit Dreams)
⚽ Simon Kuper, World Cup Fever (Profile)
⚽ Jonathan Wilson, The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup (Abacus)

08/07/2026

17/06/2026

A sneak preview of the content of our book event tonight - as Will reads from our guest Katie Clapham’s bookshop memoir ‘Receipts From The Bookshop’. Come along to Grasmere Village Hall for 7pm this evening to hear Katie herself, and pop into the shop between 3pm and closing to see us put her to work as our guest bookseller!

15/06/2026

Reminder of this on Wednesday evening! Grasmere village hall.

Grasmere book event news!

Wednesday 17th June at 7pm, at Grasmere Village Hall, we're hosting an evening with Katie Clapham, bookseller and author of brand new memoir RECEIPTS FROM THE BOOKSHOP. Tickets are £2, redeemable from the price of the book.

Katie will be in conversation with Will and Polly from Sam Read's, reflecting on the myriad comings and goings at Storytellers, Inc. in St. Anne's on Sea (the bookshop she runs with her mum), and the emotional rollercoaster of being named the Seventh-Best Bookshop in the Country by The Times on a day where takings came to £16.98.

More details here: https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/receiptsevent/EXHDIW7MIWLKNXRDPIZOCU6Z

09/06/2026

Grasmere book event news!

Wednesday 17th June at 7pm, at Grasmere Village Hall, we're hosting an evening with Katie Clapham, bookseller and author of brand new memoir RECEIPTS FROM THE BOOKSHOP. Tickets are £2, redeemable from the price of the book.

Katie will be in conversation with Will and Polly from Sam Read's, reflecting on the myriad comings and goings at Storytellers, Inc. in St. Anne's on Sea (the bookshop she runs with her mum), and the emotional rollercoaster of being named the Seventh-Best Bookshop in the Country by The Times on a day where takings came to £16.98.

More details here: https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/receiptsevent/EXHDIW7MIWLKNXRDPIZOCU6Z

05/06/2026

Happy publication week to these brilliant new books...

☀️ Claire Daverley, People in Love (Fig Tree)
☀️ Cassandra Neyenesch, A Little Bit Bad (Fig Tree)
☀️ Maggie O’Farrell, Land (Tinder Press)
☀️ Fiona Mozley, Awake Awake (John Murray)
☀️ Melissa Albert, The Children (Bloomsbury Circus)
☀️ Tony Tan, Hong Kong Cult Recipes (Murdoch)
☀️ Layla McCay, The Q***r Bookshelf (Scribe)
☀️ Paul Maunder, For a Yellow Jersey: The Scandalous History of the Women's Tour de France (Quercus)
☀️ Rebecca Tamas, The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and the Ritual Year (Pushkin ONE)
☀️ Jean-Yves Mollier and George Miller (trans), A History of Booksellers and the Bookshop (Mountain Leopard Press)
☀️ Katie Clapham, Receipts from the Bookshop (Phoenix)
☀️ Natasha Carthew, Rough Edges: Where Land Meets Water, the Untold Stories of Coastline Communities (Sceptre)
☀️ David Turner, Disability: A History of Resistance (The Bodley Head)
☀️ Thomas Crowther, Nature's Echo: Harnessing ancient feedback loops to heal a changing planet (Torva)

24/05/2026

Another bank holiday weekend and another stack of sizzling new and notable hardbacks on our bookshelves ...

• Elizabeth Preston, The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care (Scribe)
• Simon Warrack, Monumental: Great Buildings of the World Through the Hands and Eyes of a Stonemason (William Collins)
• Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane, The Book of Birds (Hamish Hamilton)
• Luke Kennard, Black Bag (John Murray)
• Eden McKenzie-Goddard, Smallie (Penguin Viking)
• Conn Iggulden, Inferno (Penguin Michael Joseph)
• Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Said the Dead (Faber)
• Ekin Oklap, First Summer (Summit Books)
• Naomi Ishiguro, The Rainshadow Orphans (Solstice Books)
• Sarah Rees Brennan, All Hail Chaos (Orbit)
• KM Moke, The EVOL Algorithm (Worldbuilders of Queen Street)
• Fred Mills, Mega Builds: Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World (WH Allen)
• Miranda Seymour, I, Vera: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess (William Collins)
• Emma Southon, Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire (Hodder Press)

04/05/2026

A Bank Holiday Monday heap of excellent new fiction paperbacks from the bookshop table (and the odd reissue, we’re looking at you Beryl).

• Katie Kitamura, Audition (Vintage)
• Various, Magic and Mechanics - A Reverse Engineering Book (Scratch)
• Chloe Michelle Howarth, Heap Earth Upon It (Verve Books)
• Rene Karabash, She Who Remains (Peirene) (trans. by Izidora Angel)
• Graham Swift, Twelve Post-War Tales (Scribner)
• Sarah Hall, Helm (Faber)
• Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing (Daunt)
• Carolyn O’Brien, Rose & Renzo (Northodox)
• Nell Stevens, The Original (Scribner)
• Hanna Thomas Uose, Who Wants To Live Forever (Brazen)
• Shaun Wilson, Malc’s Boy (Conduit)
• Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere (Penguin)
• Polly Barton, What Am I, A Deer? (Fitzcarraldo)
• Catherine Lacey, The Möbius Book (Granta)
• Lily King, Heart the Lover (Canongate)
• Roisin Dunnett, A Line You Have Traced (Magpie)