To celebrate IBW we have the following events:

* 20% off all books in stock ALL week!

* Kipper the Dog Comes to town – See the Children’s page for details

* National Reading Group Day – Saturday 25th June - we have 2 brilliant authors coming to talk about their new novels – see Events page for details.

On Saturday 21st May Grandma Doris came to the shop to draw the raffle for her hand-knitted Royal Wedding Party.  Ticket holders gathered eagerly to find out if they would be the lucky winner, but sadly there could only be one!  The winning ticket was No. 15 purchased by Julia Payne.  Unfortunately, Julia could not be with us, but luckily her mother Janet Hollingbery was, so she collected the Royal Family and is pictured here with Grandma Doris collecting the prize.  In total we raised £69 for Oakey Dokey’s Pre-school in Great Oakley and they are planning to spend the money on some outdoor play equipment.  Thank you to all those who bought tickets!

Last Thursday we had a wonderful evening with local author Ruth Dugdall who was quite delightful!  Her psychological thriller The Woman Before Me is set in and around Ipswich and is a real page-turner.  Ruth, who lives in Felixstowe, worked as a probation officer before embarking on her writing career and this inside knowledge is very evident in the book.  Bryan & Jo Beattie did us proud as usual with some delicious canapés and a good time was had by all.

We do of course have copies of Ruth’s book in the shop and would thoroughly recommend it!

Grandma Doris from Great Bentley used the amazing best-selling book Knit your own Royal Wedding by Fiona Goble to create our very own royal wedding party.  We are raffling the whole party to raise money for Oakey Dokey’s pre-school in Great Bentley.  Buy your tickets from the shop now!

We have two authors from Bloomsbury Publishing joining us for this inaugural event, which aims to have reading groups all over the country meeting up on the same day to discuss their chosen book.  Please seen events page for further details.

Thursday 19th May at The Cookery Workshop, 7-9pm.  For more information, please see events page.

The King’s Speech which will be shown on Saturday 4th June is SOLD OUT! For this reason, we have arranged another screening for Sunday 5th June, 7.30pm at McGrigor Hall.  Tickets £7.

We were lucky enough to be given a selection of the very special World Book Night books and so would like to give one of these away to everyone booking a ticket to see The King’s Speech. We do only have a limited number, so this offer is on a first come first served basis.

Following the success of the Mayor’s first matinee screening for children, we have decided to follow his example.   The next two films are as follows:

Saturday 2nd April – How to Train your Dragon (PG) at 4pm

Saturday 4th June - Despicable Me (U) at 3pm

For full details, please see the Cinema page.  If you would like to receive our regular newsletters, please enter your details on the Mailing List page.

Yes indeed! After the success of the Mayor’s initiative to bring the cinema back to Frinton, we have undertaken to continue with regular screenings. We hope to show mainly film adaptations of books (as this seems only logical!) and there are some great ones to look forward to including Brighton Rock and Never Let Me Go.
The next two films are as follows:
• Saturday 2nd April – Love in the Time of Cholera – There are still some free World Book Night Books available for this on booking until they run out!
• Saturday 4th June – The King’s Speech.
Screenings will be at 7.30pm in the McGrigor Hall. Tickets – £7 from us.