If you’re in Cockermouth on Tuesday 8th November please do come along and meet me reading from my book The Cold Fix The New Bookshop at 19:30pm, for tickets phone 01900 822062. #supportlocal #independentbookshops VertebratePublishing Cumbria Arts and Culture Network

So it’s goodbye from me & hello to new owner of the shop, Louise Heaton. It’s been a lot of fun & I’ll miss you all, thanks to the lovely staff & customers over the years, mum & dad started it in 1968. New adventures beckon, once we’ve done the handover + lots more reading X

Thanks to Kate Mosse for popping in to sign a stack of her new book this morning on a whistle stop tour of Cumbria, we were looking our Autumnal best

We are delighted to announce that the WINNER of the #BookerPrize2022 is ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ’ by Shehan Karunatilaka.

Discover more about the winning book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…
@shehankaru @sortofbooks Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌 Helen Castor Alain Mabanckou mike harrison

We’re having a visit tomorrow morning, Tuesday 18th from Kate Mosse Mantle Books for a little book signing, let us know if you’d like one.

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What a picture from an amazing first day in #Cockermouth !
📷 Tom Kay Photographic

A big thank you to Grace Dent HarperCollinsUK this afternoon for a lovely book signing here in the shop as part of Taste Cumbria lots of happy customers, town has been buzzing & we’ve been super busy as have all the foody stall holders, a great day indeed.

We can't wait to have Grace Dent and Mike Zeller Wordsworth House If you’ve missed out on a ticket head to The New Bookshop for Grace's book signing at 2pm. Taste Cumbria

Fab food writer & broadcaster Grace Dent will be signing copies of her book Hungry The New Bookshop in Cockermouth tomorrow, Saturday, from 2pm-2.30pm. All welcome!
She’s taking part in our festival, including a sell-out Q&A event with BBC Cumbria's Mike Zeller 🙂📚

It's #competition time! Readers, we have a gorgeous bundle up for grabs, including a copy of Tracey Lien's stunning debut novel #AllThatsLeftUnsaid , a beautiful bespoke tote bag AND a cannister of Vietnamese tea!

Simply RT to enter.

T&Cs: harpercollins.co.uk/pages/altu-ret… #win

Great to see September issue of @CumbriaMagazine and its feature on independent bookshops in Cumbria. Fred's Bookshop in Ambleside one of those mentioned (pic) and also Bookends Carlisle www.bookscumbria.com The New Bookshop #MichaelMoonsBookshop .
Showcase Cumbria #books #books hop #Cumbria

It's a month until #TheLighthouseBookshop comes out - how about a pre-order incentive? Order a copy from your fave #bookshop before 18 Aug, keep your receipt deets, & I'll send you one of these bags, which I've hand-printed with one of my linocuts. Hooray! 👏📚🎉 UK only, sorry!

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To celebrate this week’s publication of #Alison by Lizzy Stewart, we’ve partnered with Ohh Deer to give you a chance to win a copy of Alison and an Artful ink starter box.

To enter, RT by midnight on Wednesday 13th July. UK only.

Good luck!

WIN a Zachary Cloudesley Read-Along Gift Box!

With less than a month to go until the release of Sean.Lusk's debut novel, we are offering ONE person the chance to win - 3 surprise gifts, an early copy, and a ZC bookmark.

RT to win, UK-based winner chosen on 20 May 2022✨

Thanks for popping in yesterday Eve Wersocki Morris & signing our copies of #TheBirdSingers an exciting story set in Cumbria & we love it!

It's our final 200 author & illustrator line-up! Thank you all for being so generous! We have three days left to try & reach a 30K target - please help us by sharing your socks off for Ukraine. Purchase your tickets here! justgiving.com/fundraising/br…

I love that Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸 and Bluemoose Books are putting pencil cases into these bags. Drawing is something that has always helped me find a balance. How these children will regain theirs I do not know.
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but people recover in extraordinary ways, with love

Thanks Lee Schofield Doubleday Books for popping in to sign a good pile of Wild Fell this afternoon it’s been selling well since publication, let us know if you’d like a copy Yorkshire Lass 🐾🏊🏻‍♀️☕️🍰 was in the right place at the right time to get one too.

So excited to share the 2022 longlist for Women's Prize - loved going square-eyed with Anita Sethi 🍃 Lorraine Candy Mary Ann Sieghart DOROTHY KOOMSON | Bestselling Author in order to choose these 16 wonderful books. Next up, the shortlist! ✨