IF you're getting started on your Christmas shopping nice and early, why not pick up a copy of the Daily Echo's Cherries book?

The volume, entitled AFC Bournemouth – The Cherries 1890 to the Premier League, has proved so popular since its launch that more copies have now been printed.

Priced at £14.95, it is available from a host of book shops around the area, as well as the Echo's offices at Richmond Hill in Bournemouth and Commercial Road in Swanage.

The book comprises 160 pages that are packed with more than 500 photographs from across the decades, along with anecdotes from some of the club’s best-loved players, such as Ted MacDougall and loan star Jermain Defoe.

Published to celebrate the Cherries’ historic promotion to the Premier League, the book, which is sponsored by Rockett Plumbing and Heating Supplies, is set to be the must-have collectors’ item for die-hard life-long fans of all ages to reflect on the club’s meteoric progress.

The pages of the book highlights how the club started life as Boscombe St John’s Lads Institute FC before becoming Boscombe FC in 1899, Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic in 1923 and, finally, AFC Bournemouth.

In a year when fans stormed the pitch at Cherries’ title-winning winning match, which secured their place in the top flight for the first time, supporters can look back at the many historic moments over the decades leading up to the players lifting the trophy.

The highs and lows are all covered – from the giant-killing of Manchester United in the FA Cup to the near-extinction of the club, to the great escape to secure league status and the rapid rise to the elite.