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A PHOTOGRAPHIC book with “idyllic” images of the county is proving a bestseller, The Daily Echo and Dorset Echo’s latest offering has magnificent pictures taken around the county and is proving a popular Christmas present.

Trevor Johnson, owner of Paperview in Ringwood, said the new book Dorset: A Photographic Journey Through Towns and Villages, is attracting customers to his shop in the town centre.

“Yet again the Dorset book has been far and away the biggest seller this Christmas,” he said.

“We get no end of people asking for it each day and the pictures this year are even more idyllic.

“The comments from customers have been fantastic and it’s nice how it brings people into the shop.”

The book, sponsored by Brendoncare, features the work of our award-winning photographers and pictures by readers selected through a competition run with Castle Cameras.

The 176-page book takes readers on a tour across the county.

Another Daily Echo book is also proving popular. Bournemouth Air Festival: A Celebration of the First Five years, is the ideal gift for anyone who has enjoyed the town’s wildly successful air show. It brings together great photographs of the event from 2008 to 2012.

The Dorset book is priced at £14.95 while the air festival celebration is £15.95.

Where to pick it up

Bournemouth Office, Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, BH2 6HH;

Poole Office, 85 The Dolphin Centre, Poole, BH15 1SZ; Swanage Office, 21b Commercial Road, Swanage, BH19 1DF;

Waterstone’s Castlepoint, Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, BH8 9UY;

Waterstone’s Poole, 18 Falkland Square, Poole, BH15 1ER;

Waterstone’s Bournemouth, 14-16 Bournemouth Arcade, Bournemouth, BH1 2AF;

WHSmith, Swanage, 5 Station Road, Swanage, BH19 1AB;

WHSmith, Blandford, 4 Market Place, Blandford, DT11 7EB;

WHSmith, Shaftesbury, 42 High Street, Shaftesbury, SP78JG;

WHSmith, Poole, 1-4 Falkland Square, Poole, BH15 1ER;

Westbourne Book Shop, 65 Poole Road, Bournemouth, BH4 9BA;

WHSmith, Bournemouth, 9-13 Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, BH1 1DY;

WHSmith, Castlepoint, Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, BH8 9UZ;

Swanage Bookshop, 35 Station Road, Swanage, BH19 1AD;

Farwell’s, 8 North Street, Wareham, BH20 4AF;

Gulliver’s Bookshop, 47 High Street, Wimborne, BH21 1HS;

Bookends, Christchurch, 67 High Street, Christchurch, BH23 1AU;

D J Brooking, 420 Ashley Road, Parkstone, Poole, BH14 0AA;

Paperview, Ringwood, 5 Christchurch Road, Ringwood, BH24 1DG