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Places to Stay

Please see below for a list of places we recommend staying when visiting this years Dorchester Literary Festival.

The Duchess of Cornwall Inn

Visit Website - www.duchessofcornwall.co.uk

The Springfield

Visit Website www.thespringfield.co.uk

Plumber Manor

Visit Website - www.plumbermanor.com

The Priory Hotel

Vistit Website - www.theprioryhotel.co.uk

Greenwood Grange

Visit Website - www.greenwoodgrange.co.uk

The Seaside Boarding House

Visit Website - www.theseasideboardinghouse.com

Habitat Escapes

Visit Website - https://www.habitatescapes.com/silverlake-dorset/lakeside-holidays/?utm_source=Dorset%20Literary%20Festival%20website

Wyke Dorset Cottages

https://www.dorsetcottages.com/dorchester

https://www.dorsetcottages.com

Latest News

Orla Kiely Cancelled

Orla Kiely Cancelled...

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

We really enjoyed the talks we attended... and look forward to next year's event... Kate Adie was brilliant

Audience Feedback
Feedback From 2015 Festival

I'm now back at my desk after Ann Cleeves' mammoth book tour and wanted to send a note to say a huge thank you for hosting such a fantastic event for us. It was a definite highlight out of the 30 events!

Maura Brickell
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 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

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

Tracy Chevalier
Feedback From 2015 Festival

Kate Adie's Desert Island Books was thoroughly enjoyable! I had no idea she was (a) so glamorous and (b) so delightfully funny.

Sue Slater
Feedback From 2016 Festival