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

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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
Jon Dunn: Orchid Summer - In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
18th October 2018 at 10:30 am
Miranda Seymour: Mary Shelley and In Byron's Wake
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
Tony Juniper Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
20th October 2018 at 12:00 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
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

It is excellent that Dorchester is now on the literary map

Audience Feedback
Feedback From 2015 Festival

I did so enjoy being with you and doing my stuff. I hope to see you again, though I am so busy I don't seem to have time for writing much at present! I am
sure your festival will go from strength to strength….

Daphne Selfe
Feedback From 2016 Festival

Thanks for your warm  welcome at the festival!

A N Wilson
Feedback From 2017 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

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

All of us in the Hardy Society were very positive about 'our' first night and the subsequent events. I thought Tony's event with Rachel and Dinah worked very well with interesting conversations from the both of the women.

You and Paul must be very happy with the positive way Dorchester people are continuing to embrace the Festival, and in impressively increasing numbers. Congratulations to both of you.

Next year's dates are already in our diaries and we are looking forward to meeting up with you soon to discuss our involvement.

Mike Nixon, Thomas Hardy Society
Feedback From 2016 Festival