Dorchester Literary Festival
Dorchester Literary Festival
17-21 October 2018
Literary passions and country pleasures

Dorchester Literary Festival
17-22 October 18
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Dorchester Literary Festival 2018Welcome to the Dorchester Literary Festival 17th-21st October 2018

 THE 2018 FESTIVAL IS NOW TAKING SHAPE ...

Here are the events we've already confirmed: for more details see What's On. We hope that there will be plenty to tempt you to come along. Events last one hour and tickets will be on sale from August.

Paul Atterbury and Janet Gleeson
Festival Directors

 

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This Year's Events

Peter Hart: The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918
17th October 2018 at 12:00 pm
James Le Fanu: Too Many Pills
17th October 2018 at 2:00 pm
Lynne Truss: A Shot In The Dark
17th October 2018 at 4:00 pm
Crime Time: Mark Billingham: The Killing Habit
17th October 2018 at 6:00 pm
Crime Time: Lisa Jewell: Watching You
17th October 2018 at 6:00 pm
Judy Murray: Knowing The Score
17th October 2018 at 7:30 pm
Lucy Volpin: Big Character Drawing Workshop
18th October 2018 at 10:00 am
Jon Dunn: Orchid Summer - In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
18th October 2018 at 10:30 am
Miranda Seymour: In Byron's Wake and Mary Shelley
18th October 2018 at 12:30 pm
Diane Atkinson: Rise Up Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
18th October 2018 at 2:30 pm
Tara Westover: Educated
18th October 2018 at 4:30 pm
Hardy Today: Brian Patten - Paying Calls
18th October 2018 at 6:30 pm
Helen Rappaport : The Race to Save the Romanovs - How the World Failed Russia's Last Imperial Family
19th October 2018 at 10:30 am
Jasper Winn: Waterways - 1000 Miles Along Britain's Canals
19th October 2018 at 12:00 pm
Mark Austin: And Thank You For Watching - A Memoir
19th October 2018 at 2:00 pm
Capt. Johnny Mercer: We Were Warriors - One Soldier's Story of Brutal Combat
19th October 2018 at 4:00 pm
Julian Fellowes: Desert Island Books
19th October 2018 at 6:00 pm
Jeremy Vine: What I Learnt
19th October 2018 at 8:00 pm
Dawn Harper: Live Well to 101
20th October 2018 at 10:00 am
Tim Warnes : Meet Mole and the Lumpy-Bumpy Thing
20th October 2018 at 11:00 am
Tony Juniper Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
20th October 2018 at 12:00 pm
Alex Scarrow: From screenwriter and games designer to author
20th October 2018 at 1:00 pm
Orla Kiely: Pattern
20th October 2018 at 2:00 pm
Graham Hoyland : Yeti -An Abominable History
20th October 2018 at 4:00 pm
Joanna Trollope: An Unsuitable Match
20th October 2018 at 6:00 pm
Helen Corner-Bryant: On Editing - How to edit your novel the professional way
21st October 2018 at 10:30 am
Jonathan Cranston: The Travelling Vet - From pets to pandas, my life in animals
21st October 2018 at 12:00 pm
Tiffany Francis: Food You Can Forage
21st October 2018 at 2:00 pm
Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan: War Stories
21st October 2018 at 4:00 pm
A Walk Around Thomas Hardy's Dorchester
21st October 2018 at 9:30 am

Feedback

It was much appreciated that you included Victoria Hislop in this year's festival. As always she was charming and entertaining.

Christine Savill
Feedback From 2016 Festival

I don't think you could improve on the experience! Good luck with your plans for 2017 and I wish you all the very best.

John Challis
Feedback From 2016 Festival

I had a wonderful time in Dorchester. Very best wishes, Tom.

Thomas Williams
Feedback From 2017 Festival

A really enjoyable and unusual event. I got a good feeling from it. And am so glad the Festival in general has gone well.

Tracy Chevalier
Feedback From 2016 Festival

Thanks very much... It was fun and the audience very responsive.

Adam Nicolson
Feedback From 2017 Festival

Thank you for allowing me to be part of this great event. Well done to both of you, fantastic event.

Michael Dooley, Poundbury Clinic
Feedback From 2016 Festival