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Calling all Ipswich Town Fans!
We have copies of All to Play For ‘The Burley Years’ the new Ipswich Town book. A stunning new book highlighting the success of George Burley’s years at Ipswich Town Football club. It was such a pleasure to meet Author Neil Prentice. Very proud of my ITFC window. We have special editions in a beautiful slip case each with a special numbered signed certificate from George himself - Only 913 copies produced, representing the 913 games he played and managed for Town.
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Some copies of the other ITFC book Neil Prentice produced back in 2010 celebrating Town’s UEFA Cup win in 1981 have been discovered. Very similar in style to George’s book Neil has produced a slipcase to create a unique Collector’s edition - accompanied by a certificate signed by Russell Osman and Terry Butcher, who as you all will know, played in that great team.
Please see how the next title in Neil's ITFC collection will look alongside 'All To Play For'. There will only be 275 of these in existence, so it is a rare piece of ITFC memorabilia. We will have copies available at The halesworth Bookshop (Keep your eyes and ears open)
Also excited to confirm - Neil has commenced work on a book with another Ipswich Town legend which will be available later this year. More news on that to follow!
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Neil Prentice is up for a major sport's literary award
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The book has been shortlisted by Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards in the Illustrated book of the year supported by the JP Marland Charitable Trust. Read the article in the EADT here: https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/24755728.ipswich-town-review-new-george-burley-book-all-play-for/
New title 'Getting Away' by Kate Sawyer
Out 3rd July 2025 in hardback @ £16.99
Special Indie bookshop copies available
"Gripping - and profound... Kate Sawyer has a great gift for capturing the tiny details that tell us everything about a person or dynamic." -- Marian Keyes"From its brilliant, ambitious premise (a story told through family holidays) to its complex and wholly absorbing characters, Getting Away is a moving insight into the beautiful complexity of ordinary lives." -- Jennie GodfreyMargaret Smith is at the beach. It is a summer day unlike any other Margaret has ever known.
The Smith family have left the town where they live and work and go to school and come to a place where the sky is blue, the sand is white, and the sound of the sea surrounds them. An ordinary family discovering the joy of getting away for the first time. Over the course of the coming decades, they will be transformed through their holiday experiences, each new destination a backdrop as the family grows and changes, love stories begin and end -- and secrets are revealed.
Coming this summer, Getting Away is a dazzlingly ambitious new novel from the author of Waterstones' Fiction Book of the Month, This Family, and the Costa shortlisted The Stranding.
Robert Macfarlane
New title OUT NOW - Order here
Hardback @ £25.00
"From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.
The book flows first to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining. Then, to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way. And finally, to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river – the Mutehekau or Magpie – is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.
At once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, spark debates and lead us to the revelation that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has
Yvonne Innes
New Title OUT NOW - Order here
Hardback @ £22.00
THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF NEIL INNES, SONGWRITING POWERHOUSE AND 'SEVENTH PYTHON', BY THE PERSON CLOSEST TO HIMNominated for the Chortle Comedy Awards 2025'A lovely writer and performer. A very sweet man, much too nice for his own good...' - John Cleese'He was a great writer and he was eccentric and he was clever without being pretentious' - Sir Michael PalinFew individuals have had such an impact on British culture over the past fifty years as the comedy and music icon Neil Innes. He was the songwriting powerhouse of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band.
Beatles muse and collaborator. Injector of art college surrealism into 1960s TV comedy. Instigator of a revolution that led directly to Monty Python, the group he repeatedly joined on screen and stage.
He was Ron Nasty, co-founder of the much-loved Rutles, the 'pre-fab four'. Accidental inventor of the phrase 'Cool Britannia'. Much-loved children's TV storyteller, thinker, maker, creator, undisputed national treasure and Britain's sweet idiot laureate.
Find out more about the Halesworth Bookshop including the titles we stock and the services we offer plus the large choice of stationery and more that is available.
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just come along. See our list of dates and books for the year ahead, chosen by book group members..
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