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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.

A Gravedigger's tales is a fascinating look into the life of a village gravedigger, and the trials and tribulations that frequently beset this intriguing, but little known profession. In this, the author's second book he recalls digging out the wrong grave to working in a somewhat spooky churchyard. From a Halloween prank that terrified a colleague to embarrassing cock-ups and a floating coffin. About the authorIan lives with his wife Alison and Wag the dog in Swinderby, Lincolnshire. He's been traditionally hand-digging graves for 28 years and has dug over 3,384 graves in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

Ian Shipley has been traditionally hand-digging graves for 40 years. In this, the author's first book, he recounts true tales of when coffins get stuck, exhumations, practical jokes and various other ghostly goings-on.