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BridLit Highlights Discover What’s On  Limited Seats Remaining Dear Friends and Supporters of BridLit We are delighted that tickets are selling well across the Festival and [...]

‘The Jane Austen beach book fans have been waiting for.’ So goes the billing for Paula Byrne’s Six Weeks By The Sea: The Summer Jane Austen Fell in Love in Kirkus book reviews. The [...]

Ronald Blythe was a British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield (1969), an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. He [...]

Real travel writers seem increasingly few. It’s wonderful to hear such a fine new voice. So says travel writing legend Colin Thubron about British journalist and author Sophy Roberts, who comes [...]

William Blake has inspired 200 years of art, poetry and protest. So we’re delighted to welcome writer Philip Hoare to BridLit on Thursday 6 November who will reveal a web of [...]

Interlocutor Sam Rose loves interviewing nature writers as part of the BridLit team. Sam, who’s lived in Bridport with his family for 20 years, is CEO of local nature restoration charity [...]

It’s one of those novels everyone will be talking about. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is set to become a major motion picture and is billed as the most addictive love [...]

Diving into the world of wild swimming – such a popular activity not only here on the West Dorset coast but all over the country – are two writers with a [...]

From the author of brother. do. you. love. me. comes a new story of human connection, nature’s gifts and the power of love – in all its forms. Manni Coe came to [...]