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WELCOME

A warm welcome to the third Dorchester Literary Festival, now an established event in our county town’s cultural calendar. Our aim is to provide entertainment and enlightenment to readers in a town famous for its literary legacy. Whatever type of reading you enjoy, we hope you will find something in our programme to tempt you.

The Dorchester Literary Festival cannot happen without support, enthusiasm and contributions from many sources. We are enormously grateful to all those organisations and individuals who have done so much to make this happen. Sponsors, advertisers, supporters and volunteers have all helped to bring the Dorchester Literary Festival to life.

Most importantly, we rely on you, our audience. We hope that you will come to as many events as possible and tell us what you think. We welcome feedback and suggestions for future festivals, so keep in touch via our website and Facebook page.

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WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER

11.00am ALASTAIR SAWDAY Travelling Light Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square. Sponsored by Old Mill Accountants and Financial Planners.

1.30pm KIM HUGHES Painting the Sand Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

3.15pm KATIE HICKMAN The House at Bishopsgate, and MARIANNE KAVANAGH Should You Ask Me: historical novelists in conversation with STEVE HARRIS, Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

5. 00pm STEPHEN WESTABY Fragile Lives in conversation with STEVE HARRIS Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

7.00pm TRACY CHEVALIER New Boy The Dorford Centre, Bridport Road. Sponsored by Battens.

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

10.30am THOMAS WILLIAMS Viking Britain United Church, Charles Street

12.30pm IBY KNILL The Woman with Nine Lives, in conversation with JUDI SPIERS United Church, Charles Street

3.00 pm ADAM OCKELFORD Comparing Notes United Church, Charles Street

5.00pm PATRICK MARNHAM Darling Pol, Letters of Mary Wesley, in conversation with EMMA HOWARD, United Church, Charles Street

7.00pm ADAM NICOLSON The Seabird’s Cry Dorset County Museum, High West Street

SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER

10.00am SIMON COOPER The Otters’ Tale, Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

12.00pm AMANDA CRAIG The Lie of the Land, and JANE CORRY Blood Sisters in conversation with JUDI SPIERS, Duke’s Galleries. Sponsored by Bridal Reloved.

2.00pm HENRY BLOFELD Over and Out, in conversation with PAUL ATTERBURY, Dorford Centre, Bridport Road. Sponsored by Poundbury Wealth Management.

4.00pm FERGAL KEANE Wounds, in conversation with STEVE HARRIS, Dorford Centre, Bridport Road. Sponsored by Poundbury Clinic.

6.00pm CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS Just Biggins, in conversation with JUDI SPIERS, Dorford Centre, Bridport Road. Sponsored by Dorchester BID.

8.00pm Crime Time: VAL MCDERMID, Insidious Intent, in conversation with MINETTE WALTERS, Dorford Centre, Bridport Road. Sponsored by Humphries Kirk.

SUNDAY 22ND OCTOBER

11.00am IAN MORTIMER Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain, Dorset County Museum, High West Street. Sponsored by Peter Gunning and Partners.

12.45pm TIM MOORE The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold, Dorset Country Museum, High West Street. Sponsored by Acheson.

2.00pm PENNY JUNOR The Duchess in conversation with JASON GOODWIN, Dorset County Museum, High West Street. Sponsored by the Duchy of Cornwall.

4.00pm DESERT ISLAND BOOKS PAUL ATTERBURY in conversation with HILARY KAY. 40 Years of The Antiques Roadshow, Dorset County Museum, High West Street

SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 3.00pm and 8.00 Corn Exchange: DORCHESTER ARTS present Murray Lachlan Young

TUESDAY 17TH OCTOBER7.30pm Dorset County Museum, High West Street, NEW HARDY PLAYERS present The Withered Arm

SUNDAY 22ND OCTOBER9.30am Max Gate: DR TONY FINCHAM and ALISTAIR CHISHOLM: A Guided Walk in Hardy’s Footsteps7.30pm Corn Exchange: DORCHESTER ARTS present Nocturne The Romantic Life of Frederic Chopin

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER 10am ELEN CALDECOTT: Dogs & Doctors

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER 10.30am THE TREE HOUSE THEATRE: The Gingerbread Man

SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER 10.00am DARRELL WAKELAM: The Cat in the Hat

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER

11.00am DAVE GOULSON Bee Quest Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square,

2.00pm JAMIE McKENDRICK and VIRGINIA ASTLEY in conversation with DR TONY FINCHAM Hardy Today: Poetry Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square. Sponsored by the Thomas Hardy Society.

4.00pm A N WILSON Charles Darwin Dukes Galleries, Brewery Square. Sponsored by Humphries Kirk.

6.00pm MINETTE WALTERS The Last Hours, in conversation with PAUL ATTERBURY, Dorchester County Museum, High West Street Sponsored by Domvs

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1.30pm Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

KIM HUGHES Painting the SandA book about science, bombs and what happens to the human psyche when every day that you go to work might be your last.

Kim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. He was awarded the George Cross in 2009 following a gruelling six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan during which he defused 119 improvised explosive devices, survived numerous Taliban ambushes and endured a close encounter with the Secretary of State for Defence. Painting The Sand is set against the backdrop of the Afghan War, where the cold courage of the bomb disposal operator rose to national prominance.

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3.15pm Duke’s Galleries, Brewery SquareHistorical novelists

KATIE HICKMAN and MARIANNE KAVANAGH

in conversation with STEVE HARRISKatie Hickman’s novel, The House at Bishopsgate, is set in 1611. Paul Pindar, rich merchant of the Levant Company, sets sail for England after ten years in the Orient. He brings with him his wife and a legendary diamond. But all is not as it seems. The marriage is childless and an alluring widow becomes increasingly important to the household. Who is she, and what are her motives?

Katie Hickman is the author of bestselling history titles, Courtesans and Daughters of Britannia, and Travels with a Mexican Circus, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Her novels The Aviary Gate and the Pindar Diamond have been translated into 19 languages.

Marianne Kavanagh’s Should You Ask Me, is a mysterious historical thriller set just before D-Day in 1944, on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. Mary Holmes enters a police station and says she has information about human remains recently discovered nearby. Her case is investigated by William, a police officer invalided out of the army after being seriously injured. Mary’s confession brings his own violent past to the surface and two stories unravel.

Marianne Kavanagh is a journalist who has worked for publications such as The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Tatler, Woman & Home and many others.

The panel event will be chaired by BBC Radio Solent presenter Steve Harris.

WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER

11.00 am Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

ALASTAIR SAWDAYTravelling Light – Journeys Among Special People and PlacesA funny and heart-felt memoir from the acclaimed campaigner, publisher and wanderer Alastair Sawday, who has spent his life travelling.

This erudite and charming book contains a multitude of stories, travellers’ tales, and adventures from the front line of publishing as well as ruminations on places and experiences.

‘The richer our imaginations, the richer our travel experience. We British do things one way and the Spaniards another; there are unlimited ways of doing everthing. Kindness is found in unexpected places, as is eccentricity. Eccentrics are an endangered species and need as much protection as does the house sparrow.’

Travelling Light is a gradual awakening to the fragility of everything we love through contemplative slow journeying. Alastair Sawday gives voice to those who have climbed no mountains, discovered no rivers, changed very little, but who yearn to understand the world and its infinite variety.

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5.00 pm Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

STEPHEN WESTABY In conversation with STEVE HARRISFragile LivesAn incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons and reflections on some of his remarkable and poignant cases.

The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon tiptoes between the two. In the operating room there is no time for doubt. The surgeon deals in flesh, blood, rib-retractors and pumping the vital organ with a bare hand to squeeze life back into it. Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart.

Professor Stephen Westaby took chances and pushed the boundaries of heart surgery. He has saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirty-five year career. His astounding memoir details some of his most memorable cases: a baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old, a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome, a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years.

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Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in the school. But one student can’t stand witnessing this budding relationship: Ian decided to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again.

Tracy Chevalier was born in Washington DC, where she grew up in an integrated neighbourhood and went to an elementary school with a majority of black students. The experience of being in a minority is what made her choose to rewrite Othello. She is best known for her best-selling historical novels, including The Girl With the Pearl Earring and most recently At the Edge of the Orchard.

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THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

10.30am United Church, Charles Street

THOMAS WILLIAMS Viking Britain A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.

Britain in the Viking Age was a turbulent, violent place and the warlords of the age have names that stir the imagination: Alfred the Great, Ivar the Boneless, Edmund Ironside and Erik Bloodaxe, to name a few. Drawing together narrative history, new research and first-hand experience, Thomas Williams shows how the Vikings came to plunder, colonise and rule, leaving a cultural legacy in many ways more significant than the Romans.

Thomas Williams was a curator of the major international exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend, in 2014, and is now Curator of Early Medieval Coins at the British Museum. He undertook doctoral research at University College, London, and has taught and lectured in history and archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

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12.30 United Church, Charles Street

IBY KNILL in conversation with JUDI SPIERSAn Auschwitz holocaust survivor, Iby Knill was born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia. In 1942, in order to escape Nazi persecution Iby escaped to Hungary, where after hiding with relatives she was caught, tortured and imprisoned as an illegal immigrant. In 1944, when the Germans occupied Hungary, Iby was sent to Auschwitz, where she was held in a hut with 250 women. When Dr Mengele asked for nursing volunteers, Iby accompanied a slave labour transport of 530 Hungarian women to Lippstadt.

After the war Iby married a British army officer and arrived in Cornwall in 1947 to make a new life and close the door on the past. For 60 years she hid the horrors she had survived. All that changed when Iby was featured in the BBC One programme My Story, looking at ordinary people with extraordinary stories. Now in her 90s, Iby is determined to share her experiences with future generations.

Iby will be in conversation with radio and TV presenter Judi Spiers.

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3.00 pm United Church, Charles Street

ADAM OCKELFORD Comparing Notes - How We Make Sense of Music A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music. Comparing Notes explores what music is, why we are all musical, and how abstract patterns of sound that don’t actually mean anything can in fact be so meaningful.

Professor Adam Ockelford takes the reader on a compelling tour of twentieth century musical theory and arrives at his own theory of how music works, whether we listen to Bach or the Beatles.

Based on three decades of innovative work with blind children and those on the autism spectrum, the book shows how we all develop musically, and explores the experience of music from composer and performer to listener.

Adam Ockelford is Professor of Music at Roehampton University, where he directs the Applied Music Research Centre. He is the author of numerous books and appears regularly on radio and television.

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5.00 pm United Church, Charles Street

PATRICK MARNHAM

in conversation with EMMA HOWARDDarling Pol, Letters of Mary WesleyThey met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26th October, 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her...

Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: `After I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again. We lived our ups and downs but life was never boring.’ Eric Siepmann was her second husband and their correspondence - lively, intimate, passionate, frustrated - charted their life together (and apart) with unusual candour and spirit. Marnham suggests that through these letters Mary, who famously blossomed as a novelist in her seventies, a decade after Eric’s death, found her voice. Bequeathed to Marnham in two size-5 shoe boxes, this is one of the great surviving post-war correspondences.

Journalist, travel writer and biographer Patrick Marnham has written about Diego Riviera, Georges Simenon and Mary Wesley among others. He was Literary Editor of The Spectator and Paris correspondent of The Independent. His books have won the Thomas Cook Travel award and the Marsh Biography Award.

Patrick Marnham will be in conversation with former BBC News presenter and reporter Emma Howard.



THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

7.00pm Dorset County Museum, High West Street

ADAM NICOLSON The Seabird’s CryThe story of seabirds - the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire, is told by one of our greatest nature writers.

Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed.

Over the last couple of decades, modern science has begun to understand their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on a featureless sea.

Nicolson pursues birds from the Hebridean Islands, Orkney, Shetland, the Faroes, across the Atlantic, to the eastern seaboard of Maine, Newfoundland, the Falklands, South Georgia, the Canaries and Azores.

Adam Nicolson is the son of writer Nigel Nicolson and grandson of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson. He is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment and the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.

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The charity’s efforts to connect those who want and can give to those who really need support has been making our county a better place to live and work for nearly two decades now raising over £10 million in support for disadvantaged local residents.

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11.00am Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

DAVE GOULSONBee QuestThe much-loved Sunday Times bestselling, Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted author goes on a hunt for bumblebees, taking us from the Salisbury Plain to Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. This charming book will inspire you to think about the ways in which we are all responsible for the future of our world. Through his scientific expertise and passion for conservation Goulson shows us nature’s resilience against the odds, and that beauty hides in the most surprising places.

Dave Goulson studied biology at Oxford University and is now Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex. Bumblebees are his passion - he has published over 250 articles on their biology, and founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006.

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HARDY TODAY: POETRY JAMIE MCKENDRICK AND VIRGINIA ASTLEY in conversation with DR TONY FINCHAMAcclaimed poet and critic, Jamie McKendrick and Virginia Astley, song writer, poet and writer-in-residence at Hardy’s Cottage, will read and discuss their work and Hardy’s poetry with Dr Tony Fincham.

Jamie McKendrick is the author of six collections of poetry and teaches and reviews poetry at Oxford University. He is the winner of the Southern Arts Literature Award and the Hawthornden Prize, and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award.

Virginia Astley is a songwriter and the author of an award winning collection of poems The Curative Harp. She has recently been appointed writer-in-residence at Hardy’s Cottage, where she teaches creative writing and explores the influence of landscape on contemporary writers.

Tony Fincham is Vice President and former Chairman of the Thomas Hardy Society. He has been enjoying Hardy’s Wessex for 40 years and is the author of Exploring Thomas Hardy’s Wessex.

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A N WILSON Charles Darwin – Victorian MythmakerA radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life.

Much more than an account of a charming, shy, rich Victorian naturalist, Charles Darwin is, in part, the story of the intellectual life of the West over the last two centuries. Darwin was the product of his times, and acknowledged his theories were based not only on biology but the work of social economists. Darwin, as portrayed by A N Wilson, was the creator of a myth as powerful as that of the Bible. The response to his work has upset Creationists from the mid-19th century onwards, and made him the focus of irrational disdain.

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Minette Walters The Last Hours In conversation with PAUL ATTERBURY Minette Walters has been a master of crime fiction for nearly two decades. Now this extraordinary writer turns her talents to a new direction: a gripping historical novel set during the time of the Black Death in Dorset.

June 1348: The Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. As the people of the county start to die in their thousands, terror and superstition sweep across the land.

In the demesne of Develish, Lady Anne takes control of her people’s future choosing a bastard slave to act as her steward. Together they decide to quarantine Develish by bringing the serfs inside the walls. With this overturning of the accepted social order, conflicts soon arise. Lady Anne’s people fear starvation but they fear the pestilence more.

And how safe is anyone when a dreadful event threatens the uneasy status quo?

Minette Walters is one of the world’s bestselling crime writers. She is the author of twelve novels, including The Ice House, The Sculptress, The Scold’s Bridle and Fox Evil. She is the winner of numerous awards including the CWA John Creasy Award, The Edgar Allan Poe Award, and two CWA Gold Daggers.

Minette will be in conversation with Antiques Roadshow expert and Dorchester Literary Festival Co Director Paul Atterbury.

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The competition will be open to any writer based in the South West of England who has been locally published, or has self-published a full-length fiction or non-fiction book.

Books must have been published and sold as hard copies (not just in digital format). Children’s books, and books published by major national publishing companies are not eligible.

The judging panel will include professional writers and a leading literary agent.

Entries should be submitted by the end of February 2018, at which point a short list will be prepared. The winner will be announced at an event hosted by a leading writer in July 2018.

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10.00 am Duke’s Galleries, Brewery Square

SIMON COOPER The Otters’ TaleWhen leading river conservationist Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill straddling a small chalk stream in southern England, little did he know that he would come to share the mill with a family of wild otters. Yet move in they did and, immersing himself in their daily routines and movements, he was able to observe them at close quarters and develop an extraordinarily close relationship with the family.

Cooper interweaves the personal story of the female otter, Kuschta, with the natural history of the otter in the British Isles. Following in the footsteps of Henry Williamson’s 1920s classic Tarka the Otter, he brings these fascinating creatures to life in all their wondrous complexity, as readers are taken on a journey through the calendar year and learn the most intimate details of this most beautiful of British mammals.

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12.00 noon Duke’s Galleries, Brewery SquareBestselling novelists

AMANDA CRAIG and JANE CORRY in conversation with JUDI SPIERSAmanda Craig’s new novel The Lie of the Land, tells the story of Quentin and Lottie, who can’t afford to divorce and set off for a new life in the country. Part psychological thriller, part romance, part murder mystery, part commentary on today’s society The Lie of the Land is a panoramic novel about modern life.

Amanda Craig is an award-winning journalist and the author of six novels including Foreign Bodies, A Private Place, and Love in Idleness.

Jane Corry’s new novel Blood Sisters tells of three young girls who set off for school one morning: within an hour one is dead. Fifteen years later, Alison and Kitty are living separate lives, equally traumatized by events of the past. Meanwhile someone is watching who wants revenge for what happened that day.

Journalist and author of bestselling thriller My Husband’s Wife, Jane Corry has spent time as a writer in residence at a high-security prison for men and as tutor of creative writing at Oxford University. Amanda Craig and Jane Corry will be in conversation with Judi Spiers.

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2.00pm Dorford Centre, Bridport Road

HENRY BLOFELD in conversation with PAUL ATTERBURYOver and OutHenry Blofeld is a national treasure. He has been a cricket writer and commentator for over forty years. On BBC Test Match Special, his avuncular voice, with musings about pigeons, cranes, tea and passing helicopters is the sound of summer to cricket lovers all over the world. This autobiographical book is a celebration of his career commentating on the sport he loves. In it he relives some of his favourite moments in the sport, sharing behind the scenes anecdotes in his unique style. Henry will be in conversatin with Antiques Roadshow expert and DLF co-Director Paul Atterbury.

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FERGAL KEANE OBE In conversation with STEVE HARRIS Wounds: A Memoir of Love and WarAfter nearly three decades reporting conflict all over the world for the BBC, the award-winning journalist Fergal Keane travels home to Ireland to tell a family story of a murder, blood and betrayal that tore an Irish town apart and causes people to be silent still.

‘There was a tale about a British soldier being shot on the street outside my grandmother’s house, my father told this as a ghost story. The mood of the telling was wistful. The killing had been wrong. I was an adult before I learned the root of this story.’

Telling the heartbreaking story set against the backdrop of the 1916 uprising and violence that followed, Fergal Keane’s devastating history of a local murder asks, what is a terrorist? How do people live with the act of killing, and searches for a deeper sense of the personal history that contributed to this colonial war, and how it marked the beginning of the end of Empire. Fergal Keane will be in conversation with Steve Harris.

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CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS

In conversation with JUDI SPIERSThe man who was crowned the King of the Jungle on TV’s I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! is a much loved personality at the heart of the entertainment universe for more than forty years.

His radiant personality and wicked sense of humour have made him a hit with millions of fans and won him widespread admiration. But who is the man behind the sunny smile? Biggins, as he is affectionately known, reveals all in his memoir and in conversation with TV and Radio presenter Judi Spiers.

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CRIME TIME: VAL MCDERMID INSIDIOUS INTENT In conversation with MINETTE WALTERSVal McDermid is one of the biggest names in crime writing. Her novels have been translated into 30 languages and have sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

Interviewed by another star of crime fiction, Minette Walters, Val will be discussing Insidious Intent, the next novel in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, the first entry of which, The Mermaids Singing won the CWA Golden Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year and was adapted for the highly successful television drama Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green.

In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away – only to leave the victims’ bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations.

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IAN MORTIMER The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration BritainIf you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. The Civil War is over - a new era has begun. It is the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London, bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II. Christopher Wren’s architecture fills London’s skyline, Henry Purcell’s music resounds and Isaac Newton dominates scientific advance.

But what would it really be like to live in Restoration Britain? Where would you stay and what would you eat? What would you wear and where would you do your shopping? The third volume in the series of Ian Mortimer’s best-selling Time Traveller’s Guides answers these questions.

Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England and the Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998 and his work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize (2004).

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TIM MOORE The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold – Adventures Along the Iron CurtainScaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore (‘Bill Bryson on two wheels,’ according to the Independent) tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.

He sets off from the northern-most Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter’s brutal height, bullying his plucky bike through the endless sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.

Sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces, and unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels, battling vodka-breathed Russian hostility, Romanian landslides and a diet of dumplings, Moore and his bike are sustained by the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian rock gods.

Haunted throughout by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the Cold War generation reared on fear of apocalypse.

Three months, 20 countries and a 58 degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older, and wiser, but mainly older.

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PENNY JUNOR The Duchess

In conversation with JASON GOODWINIn her relationship with Charles that has survived for more than forty years, Camilla’s story has seen a great many myths. This book is the definitive account, authorised by the Palace.

The relationship between Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is one of the most remarkable love stories of the age. It has survived more than 40 years, endured against all the odds and nearly destroyed the British monarchy. It is a rich and remarkable story that has never been properly told – indeed, it is one of the most extraordinary, star- crossed love stories of the past fifty years.

A TV presenter, journalist and biographer Penny Junor is also the author of books on Margaret Thatcher, Richard Burton, John Major, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry.

Jason Goodwin is an award-winning travel writer and novelist and supporter of the DLF.

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PAUL ATTERBURY In conversation with HILARY KAY Desert Island Books Antiques Roadshow 40 Years of Great Finds

Paul Atterbury will chose his eight Desert Island Books, and talk about his latest book and wonderful adventures on the Antiques Roadshow in conversation with fellow Roadshow expert Hilary Kay.

Antiques expert and author Paul Atterbury has written more than 60 books on a wide range of subjects including art, antiques and design, railways and canals, travel, local history and the First World War. His latest book, co-authored with fellow Roadshow expert Marc Allum celebrates four decades of one of the nation’s most beloved television programmes, Antiques Roadshow. During the past 40 years the show has been enjoyed by millions and told thousands of unique stories about the beautiful, curious and priceless gems, toys, furniture, paintings, ceramics and more that have been handed down through the generations, or found in attics around the world.


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Dorchester Literary

Festival 2018

Wednesday 17th October –

Sunday 21st October

We are already planning an

exciting schedule

Watch our website for details

www.dorchesterliteraryfestival.com


RELATED EVENTS RELATED EVENTS

THOMAS HARDY EVENTS CHILDREN’S EVENT AIMED AT PRE-SCHOOLERS.

FREE EVENTS FOR CHILDREN

TUESDAY 17TH OCTOBER7.00 PM DORSET COUNTY MUSEUMNEW HARDY PLAYERS present The Withered ArmA new adaptation by Sue Worth of Thomas Hardy’s short story about the newly married Gertrude Lodge and a search for the cause and cure for the mysterious wound that blights her happiness.

SUNDAY 22ND OCTOBER 9.30AM MEETING POINT: Max Gate, Alington Avenue, Dorchester DT1 2ABA walk in the footsteps of Thomas Hardy and William Barnes: GUIDED BY DR TONY FINCHAM AND DORCHESTER TOWN CRIER, ALISTAIR CHISHOLMthe walk will start at Max Gate, and cross the fields and the wooded Came Down to Winterbourne Came Church, where William Barnes was rector and where he is buried. The return route will pass William Barnes’ Rectory, finishing at Max Gate, with a chance to tour the house designed by Hardy in which he lived from 1885-1928.

SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER 10.00 AM -12.00 NOON, DORCHESTER LIBRARYFree event - Reservations 01305 224440DARRELL WAKELAM Creative WorkshopJoin local artist Darrell Wakelam for a workshop to create artwork inspired by The Cat in The Hat, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Darrell uses a range of construction and collage techniques to create 2D and 3D pieces of art.

Children’s event aimed at children aged 10+.

Dorchester Library and Learning CentreTHURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER10.00amELEN CALDECOTT: Special Schools EventLocal schools are invited to a special event to meet children’s writer Elen Caldecott, author of How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant, Operation Eiffel Tower, The Marsh Road Mysteries and her latest book Dogs and Doctors.

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER 10.30am -11.30amDorchester Library – Free event Reservations 01305 224440TREEHOUSE THEATRE The Gingerbread ManTreehouse Theatre will entertain pre-schoolers with their Story Box of The Gingerbread Man. This timeless classic is brought to life by the children as they follow in the footsteps of the Gingerbread Man. There are plenty of farmyard songs to join in with and children will love this interactive storytelling.

DORCHESTER ARTS EVENTS

THE CORN EXCHANGE, HIGH EAST STREET, DORCHESTER DT1 1HFTICKETS AVAILABLE VIA: WWW.DORCHESTERARTS.ORG.UK

SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 3.00pm MURRAY LACHLAN YOUNG Modern Cautionary Tales for ChildrenFrom the moment Murray Lachlan Young bounds onto the stage, you know you are in for a good time. A mixture of poetry, stand-up comedy, storytelling, a touch of panto and lots of fun participation. A hilarious way to show children that poetry can be fun, thought provoking and quite cool! Aimed at ages 6+£8/£6 concessions

8.00pm How Freakin’ Zeitgeist Are You? AN EVENING WITH MURRAY LACHLAN YOUNGAn evening of satirical soliloquy, rock-n-roll reverie and ditty. A delightful romp into the bizarre facets of fame, fashion, people, politics, a mild erotic folk ballad and the space-time continuum.£12/£10 concessions

SUNDAY 22ND OCTOBER 8.00pmNocturne The Romantic Life of Frederick ChopinWITH LUCY PARHAM ON PIANO, NARRATED BY HARRIET WALTER AND GUY PAULThe third programme of words and music by Lucy Parham. Scripted and adapted from letters and diaries, Nocturne chronicles the romantic life of one of the greatest and most popular composers, Chopin, following his turbulent relationship with George Sand. £24/£22 members and concessions


BOOKING AND INFORMATION

TICKETS Tickets available on line from www.dorchesterliteraryfestival.comor may be bought at: Dorchester Tourist Information CentreDorchester Library and Learning CentreCharles Street Dorchester DT1 1EETelephone 01305 267992

Tickets are priced at £10: 15% discount for orders over £30.

Children’s events are free but reservationsrequired from

Dorchester Library and Learning CentreCharles Street, Dorchester DTI 1EFTelephone 01305 224440

TICKETS ON THE DOORTickets may be purchased on the door but please check website for availability

REFUNDSTickets will only be refunded if an event is cancelled due to circumstances beyond the control of the DLF and no substitution is offered. Details are correct at time of printing but we reserve the right to change speakers, venues and programmes if necessary.

DURATION OF EVENTSUnless otherwise specified events usually last for one hour.

LOCATIONSEvents will be held in four locations as indicated in the brochure, on the website and on tickets. It is a five minute walk to the United Church from Duke’s Galleries, a ten to fifteen minute walk from Duke’s Galleries to the County Museum, and a fifteen to twenty minute walk to the Dorford Centre.

DUKE’S GALLERIES Copper Street, Brewery Square, DTI IGA

DORSET COUNTY MUSEUM High West Street, Dorchester, DTI 1XA

UNITED CHURCH 49-51 Charles Street, Dorchester DT1 1BY (also accessible from South Street)

DORFORD CENTRE2 Bridport Road, Dorchester DT1 1RR

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST YEAR’S FESTIVAL

Penny Strong and Tracy Chevalier Rachel Joyce and Dinah Jefferies


HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST YEAR’S FESTIVAL

DLF on the Road

James Macdonald Lockhart

Jason Goodwin and Helen Rappaport

The Victorian Hall, Dorset County Museum Helen Mockridge and Richard Dannatt

Paul Atterbury Robert Penn and Helen Mockridge Damien Lewis

Minette Walters and Ann Cleeves Victoria Hislop and Steve Harris

Paul Atterbury and Tony Robinson Penrose Halson and William Boyde


Dorchester Literary

Festival 2018

Wednesday 17th October –

Sunday 21st October

We are already planning an

exciting schedule

Watch our website for details

www.dorchesterliteraryfestival.com

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