Sam Read Bookseller Ltd

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)

27/04/2026

Join us tomorrow evening as we launch Victoria Bennett’s beautiful new book online - out this week from Elliott and Thompson. Tickets here:

Join us to celebrate the launch of Victoria Bennett's new memoir, THE APOTHECARY BY THE SEA: A YEAR IN AN ORKNEY GARDEN. Hosted by Will Smith, of Sam Read’s, Bennett will be in conversation with poet, memoirist and bookshop co-captain Polly Atkin.All event attendees will have the chance to win...

03/04/2026

A burst of sunshine on the bookshop window this Good Friday.

20/03/2026

Spring equinox aurora in Grasmere.

16/03/2026

Traffic on the bookshop corner.

11/03/2026

A change of scenery for entirely bookish reasons... Will headed down to London for The London Book Fair. Wonderful to catch up with so many booksellers, hear publishers pitch the year's new books at The Booksellers Association programme and catch a glimpse of some fine book people from the publishing world.

06/03/2026

An early delivery of in paperback has arrived, meaning Alan Cleaver is now even more portable! Beat a path to our door for it, or we can commission a fine postie to do the same for yours... https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/alan-cleaver-postal-paths-rediscovering-britain-s-forgotten-routes/14529

20/02/2026

Friday afternoon bookshop, sunshine!

18/02/2026

Some bright bookish news!

We are very proud to be a North of England finalist for the Independent Bookshop of the Year once more. It's a testament to the hard work of our whole team of booksellers over the past year: Will, Polly, Kim, Abi, and Julian. It's also a tribute to our fantastic customers who keep us buoyed up, entertained and well-read all year round.

Thanks to The Nibbies and congrats to all our fellow finalists! You're all our favourites.

https://www.thebookseller.com/british-book-awards-content/independent-bookshop-of-the-year


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