Pritchards Bookshop are excited to present one of the UK's best-known broadcasters Clare Balding as she comes to our shop to sign copies of her debut novel Pastures New.
Date & Time: Saturday 20th September 2025 @ 11:00am
Location: Pritchards Bookshop, Moor Lane, Crosby L23 2SE (click here for directions)
Each ticket = one copy of Clare's book (RRP £20) which also guarantees you a chance to meet Clare and get your book signed on the day!
Pastures New is enormously enjoyable and full of all the warmth and wit and mischievous humour of early Jilly Cooper crossed with Clare’s enormous affection for the countryside. The title is published on 11th September 2025.
About Pastures New
Where there’s a will, there’s a way home…
Alex has perfected the art of dodging responsibility during her almost 40 years — until an unexpected letter turns her life upside down. She’s inherited a crumbling sheep farm in deepest, wettest Wales. This was not her life plan. Not at all.
Now, her closest companion is a cantankerous Welsh terrier, she’s speed-reading An Idiot’s Guide to Farming, and her arrival has set the village gossip mill spinning. Determined to avoid becoming the next local scandal, Alex sets out to uncover the truth behind her mystery inheritance and get back to the life she thought she wanted. But as secrets surface, Alex finds her heart pulling her in a direction she never saw coming. Will she pack her bags – or has she landed exactly where she’s meant to be…
About the author
Clare Balding grew up in the countryside surrounded by horses and dogs, and reading everything from Jilly Cooper to Henry James. Her autobiography, ‘My Animals and Other Family’, won the National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year. A keen rider, she competed as an amateur flat jockey during her teenage years, winning Champion Lady Rider in 1990. After an English Literature degree at Cambridge she became a journalist. Alongside her award-winning sports broadcasting and coverage of major Royal events, Clare hosts her much-loved Ramblings series on Radio 4, taking her across the British Isles exploring its landscape and its storytelling. A passionate campaigner for equality and women’s sport, Clare was awarded a CBE for her services to Sport and Charity in 2022, which she was honoured to receive at Buckingham Palace.
