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

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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

Habitat Escapes

Visit Website - https://www.habitatescapes.com/silverlake-dorset/

 

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This Year's Events

Not About Heroes
10th October 2018 at 8:00 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
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 - 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

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

I thought the event had a really good feel to it - and people couldn't have been friendlier and more welcoming. Good luck with future events.

Adam Ockelford
Feedback From 2017 Festival

We thoroughly enjoyed the Literary Festival again this year and eagerly await the next one...Thank you for bringing a great event to Dorchester. 

Christina Hicks
Feedback From 2016 Festival

I very much enjoyed the events I came to at the Dorchester  Literary festival. It was all very well organised. The sessions on The Seabird's cry, Bee Quest, and The Otter's Tale were brilliant. 

Helen Austin
Feedback From 2017 Festival

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

Jamie McKendrick
Feedback From 2017 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