Best Selling Author to Visit Hayling

- Sun 1st Jul 2007

Hayling Bookshop lands best selling Author for book signing
Local people will have a chance to meet and chat with best selling author Gervase Phinn on July 10th when he visits The Hayling Island Bookshop as part of his national book tour to promote Heart of the Dales which is the newest volume in the Dales series.
Gervase Phinn will be signing copies of his book in The Hayling Island Bookshop on Tuesday July 10th from 12 noon until 1pm. He is reading extracts from his book on Radio 4’s Book of the Week from July 2nd.

Gervase Phinn’s books of reminiscences about life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales have won him legions of fans. The first volume, The Other Side of the Dale, published in 1998, went on to sell 150,000 copies, delighting readers with tales of school life as Gervase started out. Each book since has hit the bestseller lists, and Gervase regularly sells out venues across the country for his popular one-man theatre tour, An Evening with Gervase Phinn!

Marie Telford, owner of the Hayling Island Book Shop says, ‘We met Gervase at an event last year and he promised to come to our village shop on the south coast leg of his national tour and we are thrilled to have Gervase do a book signing with us. He has an extraordinary talent to entertain, and his latest instalment to the Dales series is as heart-warming, wry, and laugh-out-loud funny as his previous instalments. This is a great chance for local people to meet him.’

Tickets are on sale from the Hayling Island Bookshop, or telephone 02392 466620.

Ends June 2007
For further information contact:
Marie & Colin Telford
The Hayling Island Bookshop
34 Mengham Road
Hayling Island Hants
PO11 9BL
www.haylingislandbookshop.co.uk
02392 466620

About the Author:
Gervase Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer, a consultant for the Open University, Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, York and the Fellow and Visiting Professor of Education at The University of Teesside. He is President of the School Library Association and a lifelong supporter of school libraries.
In 2004 Gervase Phinn received "The Speaker of the Year Award" from the Association of Speakers' Clubs. His last book, Up and Down in the Dales, won the Customer Choice Award at the Spoken Book Awards. In 2005 the highest academic award of Sheffield Hallam University, Doctor of the University (D. Univ.) was conferred upon him by the Chancellor, Professor Lord Robert Winston.

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