There are numerous wonderful local authors and books and I hope you'll find some interesting reading on the list below. Please suggest your personal favourites for inclusion...

Thornham and the Waveney Valley: a historic landscape explored
by John Fairclough and Mike Hardy, 2004
from Forge Café, bookshops, Amazon

Thornham Parva Retable: painting and practice
by Hamilton Kerr Institute, 2004
from bookshops, Amazon

Dominican painting in East Anglia: Thornham Parva Retable and the Museé de Cluny Frontal
by Christopher Norton, David Park and Paul Binski, 1987
out of print, copies usually on AbeBooks.com

Excellent booklets about retable and wall paintings are on sale at Thornham Parva Church.

Sacred country
by Rose Tremain
Fascinating novel set in small town (Eye) in 1952

Painful extractions
by John Henniker
Autobiography of the late Lord Henniker
Paperback edition from Forge Café, Amazon
[See also Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern approaches, 'a marvellous and incredible true story,' featuring JH.]

Ipswich Record Office has much material on the Thornhams, including Henniker family and estate papers and maps. Bridget Henley is in charge of the Henniker boxes.

A lot has been written in and about Wortham, including The Biography of a Victorian Village by Ronald Fletcher which presented Richard Cobbold's account and paintings of that village in the 1860s. Copies should be on AbeBooks.com. Try to get one with a jacket. Also see the newer Parson and people in a Suffolk village: Richard Cobbold’s Wortham 1824-77. This illustrates in colour many more of Cobbold's wonderful portraits of villagers, strangely at postage stamp size.