Welcome to The Hayling Island Bookshop
The Hayling Island Bookshop is one of the last remaining independent bookshops in the area and is fast gaining a reputation for the quality of personal service and the innovative Author signing events that they run. To date in 2008 the Bookshop has run twelve events with fifteen different Authors including Anne Widdecombe, Ian Whybrow and Kate Mosse and in previous years has run major public events for Jacqueline Wilson and Darren Shan.
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 and 2008.
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Terry Pratchett To Launch NATION at Hayling Island Bookshop on September 13th.
The smallest island book shop and the Nation’s largest bookshop, Waterstones in Picadilly will join forces to launch Terry Pratchett’s new novel, NATION, at special events to be held on Saturday 13th September.
Marie & Colin Telford, owners of the Hayling Island Bookshop, are thrilled to have secured the signing: “Events are a huge part of what we do and we’re over the moon to have someone as popular as Terry Pratchett visiting us, it’s going to be a huge small signing!”.
Entry to the Hayling Bookshop event will be by a limited number of free numbered tickets which have all now been allocated.Further details about the signing will be published during late August.
The News Release is available at www.terrypratchett.co.uk.
Bookshop News
Author Events
August 2nd, Sandra Horn Author of Tattybogle will be with us at The Hayling Island Carnival at the seafront Carnival Field. She will have her Scarecrow characters Essie Clackett and Tattybogle with her.
September 18th, "Challenge Ali" Event at The Portsmouth Grammar School. Pupils from a number of schools will compete to create a new story for judging by Ali Sparkes and a panel of judges
September 25th, Havant Literary Festival - Craig Simpson will be at Warblington School, Havant talking about his latest book Special Operations: Dogfight
September 26th, Havant Literary Festival - Ali Sparkes will be at Warblington SChool, Havant talking about Monster Makers and Shapeshifter
September 27th, Havant Literary Festival - "Travels with Edward" - with Author and Broadcaster Edward Enfield
New Literary Festival For Havant Borough
We are pleased to be supporting this exciting new event for Havant. Details are at the website www.havantlitfest.hampshire.org.uk.
2008 Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival
We were again Sponsors of the Haying Island Scarecrow Festival you can see details of this year's entries at at the Scarecrow Festival Website www.haylingscarecrows.co.uk.
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