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

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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

Dorchester Arts presents: King Lear Retold - Debs Newbold
7th October 2018 at 8:00 pm
Not About Heroes
10th October 2018 at 8:00 pm
The Oldie Literary Lunch
15th October 2018 at 12:00 pm
Peter Hart: The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918
17th October 2018 at 11:00 am
James Le Fanu: Too Many Pills
17th October 2018 at 1:00 pm
Lynne Truss: A Shot In The Dark
17th October 2018 at 3:00 pm
Crime Time: Mark Billingham: The Killing Habit
17th October 2018 at 5:30 pm
Crime Time: Lisa Jewell: Watching You: Mark Billingham The Killing Habit
17th October 2018 at 5:30 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
Memoir: Tara Westover: Educated in conversation with Alexandra Heminsley Leap In
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 - The Truth behind the secret plans to rescue Russia's Imperial Family
19th October 2018 at 10:30 am
Jasper Winn: Waterways - A Thousand 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: A Life in 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
Vince Cable Open Arms
20th October 2018 at 8:00 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 12:30 pm
Tiffany Francis: Food You Can Forage
21st October 2018 at 2:30 pm
Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan: War Stories
21st October 2018 at 4:30 pm
A Walk Around Thomas Hardy's Dorchester
21st October 2018 at 9:30 am

Feedback

...Enjoyable, engaging, enthralling...

Audience Feedback
Feedback From 2015 Festival

My wife and I really enjoyed our first visit to DLF to hear Henry Bloefeld. Having looked through the programme further we wished we should have chosen more, but at least we shall try to get the books via the Library. Looking forward to seeing next year’s programme.

Heather and Bryan Edwards
Feedback From 2017 Festival

It is excellent that Dorchester is now on the literary map

Audience Feedback
Feedback From 2015 Festival

Paul was an excellent interviewer, and I loved the format. Great audience, acoustics...

Tracy Chevalier
Feedback From 2015 Festival

I SO enjoyed yesterday. It was a real pleasure to meet you all and what a lovely festival, lovely venue and lovely audience. And Jason was just brilliant. Thank you very, very much for inviting me.

Penny Junor
Feedback From 2017 Festival

I thoroughly enjoyed all six events I attended and would have done many more if my time had allowed. Congratulations to all the people involved for a very well organised event. I am most certainly looking forward to next year's events calendar- the dates are already in my diary.

Andrea Clarke
Feedback From 2016 Festival