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

Dorchester Literary Festival
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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 Seaside Boarding

 

The Seaside Boarding House

Visit Website - www.theseasideboardinghouse.com

 

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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

Thank YOU for hosting us so brilliantly on Sunday. Dad and I had a great time and were both really impressed by the very smooth running of your festival. It was a total pleasure being there with you, Helen, and the team. Congrats to all concerned on a job well done. It was fun to be a part of it.

Ben Holden
Feedback From 2016 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

I enjoyed my festival event in Dorchester very much. What a friendly welcome the audience gave me! Good luck with future festivals -- and well done.

Val McDermid
Feedback From 2017 Festival

I attended 4 events, next year I will want to attend even more talks. 
A friend came to stay with us and she was equally impressed by the talks she attended.

Gill Borg
Feedback From 2017 Festival

Thanks again for organising a lovely event.

Dave Goulson
Feedback From 2017 Festival

Going from strength to strength, well done!

Polly Greenway, Domvs
Feedback From 2016 Festival