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

 TICKETS FOR THE 2018 FESTIVAL ARE NOW  ON SALE...

Here are the events we've 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 you can buy tickets now online and at the Dorchester Tourist Information Centre. Tickets for most events cost £10.00 with £5 discount for every 3 tickets you buy.

Paul Atterbury and Janet Gleeson
Festival Directors

 

Latest News

Orla Kiely Cancelled

Orla Kiely Cancelled...

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This Year's Events

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 - event cancelled
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

Thank you very much for having me to the festival and making me feel so welcome.

James Macdonald Lockhart
Feedback From 2016 Festival

It is really great to have a Literary Festival in Dorchester and I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into making it happen.

Janet Evans
Feedback From 2016 Festival

Very well organised, excellent variety in terms of author and presentation. Favourite was Tony Robinson, but I also really enjoyed Julia Shaw (memory very thought provoking), Richard Dannatt (good solid start to festival) JOHN Wright (local and good humour) Alison Weir (such research and knowledge) and Victoria Hislop (novel in a different style).

Jeanne Holmes
Feedback From 2016 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

 I very much enjoyed the whole occasion, and want to thank you for all your hospitality.

Jamie McKendrick
Feedback From 2017 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