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He's been traditionally hand-digging graves for 28 years and has dug over 3,384 graves in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49596471279889,"sku":"GOR003498990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057177559313,"sku":"NIN9781907211669","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1907211667.jpg?v=1751413349"},{"product_id":"tales-of-a-gravedigger-book-ian-shipley-9781839756917","title":"Tales of a Gravedigger","description":"Ian Shipley has now been traditionally hand-digging graves for 40 years. He was taught to dig the old-fashioned way and four decades on, averaging 114 graves per year, Ian can still be found habitually toiling away in one of any number of locations across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.  In Tales of a Gravedigger, the author's first book, he recalls true tales from his early years whilst working at Newark's London Road Cemetery in Nottinghamshire. It is a light-hearted and occasionally amusing look into the life of a gravedigger. From coffins getting stuck to stomach-churning exhumations. From unexpected cave-ins to practical jokes and various other ghostly goings-on.   It's an interesting glimpse into a profession that most of us know very little about.  Ian has always believed that a grave should be hand-dug. It's more personal that way. For years he has declined to use mechanical digging, preferring instead to keep alive the old ways. In Newark-on-Trent and throughout the surrounding villages of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, Ian will possibly be the last of the traditional gravediggers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777607213329,"sku":"CIN1839756918G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055907209489,"sku":"NIN9781839756917","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52622799765777,"sku":"GOR014566480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1839756918.jpg?v=1750994507"},{"product_id":"self-mocking-humour-and-a-bellyful-of-cider-book-ian-shipley-9781803811482","title":"Self-Mocking Humour and a Bellyful of Cider","description":"After the death of my wife Alison in July 2019, I decided to handpick and publish a collection of my poetry and prose. Gathering together faded pencil-written verses and rediscovering older forgotten works was a joy and, if I'm honest, probably saved me from imploding.     The majority of the work included here relates to daft husband-and-wife banter.  From self-mocking humour and daft comical incidents, to silly, embarrassing misfortunes - it's all here!    I've also included a few of my personal favourites, including my first ever poem, which I wrote whilst still at school, some 44 years ago. Significantly, there is a core of truth in each and every poem.   The majority were written during the 17 years we had together: 2002 to 2019.   Happy times for sure.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50541488865553,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50541489324305,"sku":"GOR013990927","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/180381148X.jpg?v=1750833076"},{"product_id":"gravedigger-s-churchyard-tales-book-ian-shipley-9781803816043","title":"A Gravedigger's Churchyard Tales","description":"A Gravedigger's Churchyard Tales is the third and final installment in Ian's Grave-tales series. From comical graveyard antics to a close encounter with death, this book tells stories from Ian's 41-year career as a gravedigger, including the intriguing exhumation of three Polish airmen, the preparation of his father's grave, and the three-decade-long mystery of a missing antique.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51052705874193,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51052707709201,"sku":"NIN9781803816043","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53143368565009,"sku":"GOR014771720","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53143397630225,"sku":"GOR014771741","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/180381604X.jpg?v=1759509596"},{"product_id":"daft-punk-verse-and-a-flick-of-the-v-s-book-ian-shipley-9781916864429","title":"Daft Punk Verse and a flick of the V's","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Collection of punk poetry, verse from the streets and the hard life, about everyday events that might affect us all, captured with a compassionate style that we can all empathise with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do with creativity when the bands you've fronted for 26 years suddenly call it a day? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor me, I simply mutated back to writing outrageous laughable poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis all began in 1981 when I had an appetite for capturing silly situations in rhyme. 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