Welcome to The Hayling Island Bookshop
The Hayling Island Bookshop is one of the last remaining independent bookshops in the area and has gained a reputation for the quality of personal service and their innovative Author signing events.Authors we have run or supported events for include Terry Pratchett,Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Widdecombe, Ian Whybrow, Kate Mosse, Derek Landy, Chris Ryan, Darren Shan, Louis de Bernieres, Sandi Toksvig, Julian Fellowes and Sir Andrew Motion.
We also provide bookselling services at author events run by Portsmouth School Library Service and both Portsmouth and Hampshire Library Services. In addition the Bookshop also ran the children's and Hayling events for the 2008 and 2009 Havant Literary Festivals and was the Official Bookseller to the 2010 Portsmouth Festivities.In 2010 we held our first Portsmouth BookFest in partnership with Portsmouth City Library Service. BookFest will run again in autumn 2011 with an exciting programme of events across the city.
In 2009 The Hayling Island Bookshop was named as South of England Independent Bookshop of the year.
Bookshop proprietor Marie Telford is a member of the Advisory Panel for the Independent Booksellers Forum within the Booksellers Association and, with her husband Colin, regularly meets with other independent booksellers to share experiences on how to keep small bookshops alive and well in the UK. They are also active in the local community using their event management experience to sponsor and organise the Hayling Island Scarecrow Festivals in 2007,2008 and 2009. Over 4000 visitors and residents took part in the 2010 Scarecrow Festival.
You can see the 2011 Scarecrows at The Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival in 2011.
Latest News FromThe Hayling Island Bookshop
We have been adopted!
We are very pleased to announce that Blue Peter Book Award winning children's author Ali Sparkes has adopted our Bookshop for a year. We can arrange for you to buy signed copies of all her titles personally dedicated by Ali.You can find more details at Ali Sparkes website.
Parliamentary Small Shops Awards 2011
Marie and Colin Telford from The Hayling Island Bookshop attended a gala reception on the Terrace Pavilion of the House of Commons on Wednesday 26th October as finalists in the 2011 Parliamentary Best Small Shop Awards.
The Reception was held on the Terrace of the House and hosted by MP’s who had nominated small shops from their constituencies. The Hayling Island Bookshop reached the final ten and was presented with a certificate by the Government Whip Mark Francois MP. The All Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group is a parliamentary group promoting the interests of small shops, within government, the media and among consumers, and ran, for the second year, the Parliamentary Best Small Shop Competition, with the intention of positively promoting the value of small shops by celebrating what they contribute to their local communities. Nominations came from MP’s all over the country and the Hayling Island Bookshop was nominated by Rt Hon David Willetts, MP for Havant and Minister of State for Universities and Science. The nomination covered the huge programme of events supported by the Bookshop each year as well as the work of the Bookshop within the local community including their four year sponsorship of The Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival and their extensive work in local schools particularly in Portsmouth in partnership with Portsmouth School Library Service. Marie Telford owner of the Bookshop said “Although we didn’t win the overall award, we were delighted to make the final ten and be invited to the House of Commons. We take the work we do in schools with authors and with our various Festivals very seriously and believe that it helps to build the readers of the future.2011 Events Programme Sets a New Record
The Hayling Island Bookshop have just completed their 2011 events programme which this year ran to an amazing 89 events featuring 68 different authors at 58 different Venues for audiences totalling over 13,100 people. Join our mailing list to find out about our 2012 events!
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