One of my oldest friends gets married in Grasmere. A happy event in itself, but I also get to climb Helvellyn and, on the drive back to Manchester, visit two of the best second hand bookshops in the north-west, if not the country. I can’t remember what took me to the Carnforth Bookshop the first time I visited it, but a personal recommendation from someone like John Oakey or Claire Dean or Paul Kondras seems most likely. I have now been several times. It’s easily accessible both by road (jus...