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  • Event 1 | Simon Parker | Riding Out

    £12.00

    Simon Parker - Riding Out - A Journey of Love, Loss and New Beginnings

    In March 2020, as Britain entered its first lockdown, Simon Parker’s life fell apart; his travel journalism career vanished overnight and shortly afterwards he received the tragic news that a close friend had died. Riding Out details the remarkable and inspirational true story of how one man battled grief and anxiety, one pedal stroke at a time, on a 3500-mile adventure around Britain. En route, he would meet hundreds of resilient Britons, and even in his gloomiest moments he began to see that a chink of light was never too far away..

    An illustrated talk
    When: Sunday 6th November 2022 @ 10.30am
    Where: Electric Palace
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  • Event 2 | Sheila Hancock | Old Rage

    £12.00

    Sheila Hancock - Old Rage

    Sheila Hancock sat down to write a book about a serene and fulfilled old age - but Old Rage is not that book! Instead, she has written a gloriously irreverent memoir from the  frontline of declining years. Having weathered widowhood, she  has stormed through acting roles with an energy to confound the milestone birthdays. Dame Sheila shares her life as a daughter, a sister, a mother, an actor and a friend. She confronts bereavement, Brexit and lockdown without  faltering and, despite age and despite rage, she always finds reasons for laughter.

    In conversation with Susannah Simons
    When: Sunday 6th November 2022 @ 12noon
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Emma Farquharson
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  • Event 3 | Martin Maudsley | Telling the Seasons

    £12.00

    Martin Maudsley - Telling the Seasons - Stories, Celebrations and Folklore Around the Year.

    Telling the Seasons takes us on a journey through the twelve months of the year with stories, customs and celebrations from around the British Isles. Original drawings, sayings, songs, recipes and rhymes combine into a ‘spell-book’ and a colourful guide into how and why we continue to celebrate the seasons. In this special event to herald the book’s publication, Martin Maudsley collaborates with Dorset fiddle player Lucy Roberts to bring to life traditional stories and folksongs.

    £28  2 course lunch
    When: Sunday 6th November 2022 @ 12.30pm
    Where: Sladers Yard
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  • Event 4 | Justin Webb | The Gift of a Radio

    £12.00

    Justin Webb - The Gift of a Radio - My Childhood and Other Train Wrecks

    Justin Webb is the longest serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news programme - Today. For almost four decades, he has been a voice and presence on the airwaves and  television, and has reported from around the world as a war correspondent. In his memoir, he traces an unhappy childhood through an extraordinary adolescence, to survive against a backcloth of Britain in the 70s with strikes, inflation and IRA bombings to  carve a distinguished career in media.

    John Humphreys says of Justin: ‘Justin is a great broadcaster because he sounds like a real human being.  His hugely entertaining book helps explain why’

    Tickets: £12

    In conversation with Susannah Simons
    When: Sunday 6th November 2022 @ 2.30 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Nick Pearson
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  • Event 5 | Chris Patten | The Hong Kong Diaries

    £12.00

    Chris Patten - The Hong Kong Diaries

    In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British Governor to prepare for handing back the British Colony to the Chinese in 1997. During these five years, he kept a diary chronicling the backstage battles which were to decide Hong Kong’s fate.  The Diaries give an insight into the difficulties of negotiating with the Chinese, how institutions of democracy could be strengthened and the need to ensure that a degree of self government would continue after handover. Patten also gives a powerful assessment of recent events and how best to manage matters.

    In conversation with Howard Davies
    When: Sunday 6th November 2022 @ 4.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Liz and Richard Strang
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  • Event 6 | Hugh Bonneville | Playing Under The Piano

    £12.00

    Hugh Bonneville - Playing Under The Piano - From Downton to Darkest Peru

    One of Britain’s most distinguished actors, Hugh Bonneville, is familiar to worldwide audiences for his roles in Downton Abbey and the Paddington films. From getting his break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent, Hugh chronicles a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. A wickedly funny storyteller, Hugh also writes with poignancy of his Father’s dementia and his Mother who worked for the Secret Service and, with relish,  about working with divas, dames and a bear with a penchant for marmalade.

    In conversation with Julian Fellowes
    When: Sunday 6th November 2022 @ 6.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Jean Edwards
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  • Event 7 | Katie Hickman | Brave Hearted

    £12.00

    Katie Hickman - Brave Hearted - The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

    An extraordinary story of the women of the American West: whether hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns or the ordinary wives and mothers walking thousands of miles with handcarts, the Chinese slave brides working in laundries or the Native American women displaced by mass migration - all have the one trait in common of extreme resilience and courage. This is a gripping and heart rending narrative that covers the period from 1836 to 1880 when the US Census Bureau declared that the ‘frontier’ was no longer.

    An illustrated talk
    When: Monday 7th November 2022 @ 10.30am
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 8 | Giles Milton | Checkmate In Berlin

    £12.00
    Giles Milton - Checkmate In Berlin - The First Battle of the Cold War

    Giles Milton, writer and historian, discusses the high stakes tale of grit, skullduggery and raw power which was to divide Berlin. From the politics of the Yalta Conference in 1945 to the Soviet stranglehold of the city, this is an epic story of the first battle of the Cold War and how it shaped the modern world. Berlin’s fate was to be carved up by the victorious Allies and Soviets and the rival personalities and ideologies ensured that the city would be an explosive battleground.

    In conversation with Barney White-Spunner
    When: Monday 7th November 2022 @ 12 noon
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: John and Sue Bradbury | Barry Mawhinney
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  • Event 9 | Greg Mosse | The Coming Darkness

    £12.00

    Greg Mosse - The Coming Darkness

    Greg Mosse’s debut climate fiction novel has been described as “Bladerunner meets John Le Carre”. Set in an alternate near future in which global warming and pathogenic viruses have torn through the fabric of society, The Coming Darkness follows a secret operative, Alex Lamarque, trailing an eco-terrorist set on destabilising the controls placed on the global population in order to protect them from climate change. Mosse’s storytelling is complex and finely crafted and chillingly real.

    In conversation with Jason Goodwin
    When: Monday 7th November 2022 @ 2.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 10 | Joanna Quinn | The Whalebone Theatre

    £12.00

    Joanna Quinn - The Whalebone Theatre

    From the day that a whale washes up on the beach at the Chilcombe estate in Dorset, twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel plants her flag and claims it as her own, determining to do things differently in her life. She moves with her siblings as a child in a traditional English manor, to an adult in wartime. Local writer Joanna Quinn brings us a brilliant, beguiling story of inheritance, imagination, courage, and loss, and of an irrepressible girl from a gloriously dysfunctional home who fights to carve her own story.

    In conversation with Olivia Glazebrook
    When: Monday 7th November 2022 @ 3.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 11 | Julia Samuel | Every Family Has A Story

    £12.00

    Julia Samuel - Every Family Has A Story - How We Inherit Love & Loss

    Julia Samuel is a leading psychotherapist and author and her new book about families is written because she wanted to answer the questions we all ask: why some thrive in adversity and others fragment? Can family breakdown be predicted? Julia has looked deeply into her own troubled childhood as well as others’ to help her with her work. Retreating behind facades and defence mechanisms can unlock childhood traumas which can blight adult life through repression and denial.

    In conversation with Prue Keely
    When: Monday 7th November 2022 @ 5.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Buffy Sacher
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  • Event 12 | Nikki May | Wahala

    £12.00

    Nikki May - Wahala

    Ronke, Simi and Boo are three mixed-race friends living in London. They have the gift of two cultures, Nigerian and English, and now in their thirties, they are looking to the future. When Isobel a lethally glamorous friend from their past arrives in town, cracks in their friendship begin to appear, and the women are forced to reckon with a crime in their past. Local author, Nikki May, has written a darkly comic and subversive take on love, race and family. Her book Wahala will have readers laughing, crying and gasping in horror!

    In conversation with Olivia Glazebrook
    When: Monday 7th November 2022 @ 6.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 13 | Benedict Macdonald | Cornerstones

    £12.00

    Benedict Macdonald - Cornerstones - Wild Forces That Can Change Our World

    Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of natural ecosystems, and lies at the mercy of global warming, flooding, drought and catastrophic biodiversity loss. But could restoring species that once helped protect our islands help turn this crisis around? Benedict Macdonald introduces us to 9 vital cornerstone species that shape Britain - bees, beavers, birds of prey, boar, cattle, horses, whales, wolves and finally humans. Benedict explains how humans can become the greatest stewards of the natural world.

    An illustrated talk
    When: Tuesday 8th November 2022 @ 10.30 am
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: ‘Soixante’
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  • Event 14 | Clover Stroud | The Red Of My Blood

    £12.00

    Clover Stroud - The Red Of My Blood

    Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist. Her last book: My Wild & Sleepless Nights: A Mother’s Story was rated one of the best books of 2020. Her new bestseller has been described as a masterpiece. Aged 46, Clover’s sister Nell Gifford - founder of Gifford’s Circus - died suddenly of breast cancer. Clover charts the first year after Nell’s death which split her own life apart. It is a perilous journey which is both heartbreaking yet life affirming, in which death and life exist vividly beside one another.

    In conversation with Sophy Roberts
    When: Tuesday 9th November 2022 @ 12 noon
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 15 | Alan Titchmarsh | The Gift

    £12.00

    Alan Titchmarsh - The Gift - An ordinary life. An extraordinary choice.

    Unquestionably a national treasure, gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through his television career which includes more recently Love Your Weekend which has proved to be the most popular ITV Sunday morning programme of all time. Along with his gardening books, Alan has written four volumes of memoir, a Gardener’s Bedside Book of Poetry and still found time to write 12 novels. His energy is unbounded and his latest novel The Gift is a powerful story about the wonder of the natural world and how it binds families together.

    In conversation with Sally Laverack
    When: Tuesday 9th November 2022 @ 2.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Georgia Langton
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  • Event 16 | Nicholas Jubber | The Fairy Tellers

    £12.00
    Nicholas Jubber - The Fairy Tellers - A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales Fairy-tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. Award winning travel-writer Nicholas Jubber, explores their secret history: the people who told them, the landscapes that forged them and the cultures that formed them. Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson are inextricably associated with fairy tales but Nick discovers significant tellers long buried in history and uncovers the wealth of their long lost lives. An illustrated talk
    When: Tuesday 9th November 2022 @ 4.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Sue Robinson
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  • Event 17 | Anthony Sattin | Nomads

    £12.00

    Anthony Sattin - Nomads - The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

    Award winning writer and journalist, Anthony Sattin, takes us on a journey with those nomadic peoples who effected change. Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even after urban advancement lured people into the great cities, most continued to live lightly on the move outside the pages of history. They built monuments, tamed the horse, fashioned the bow, fought with the Greeks and hastened the end of the Roman Empire. Their free movement brought a cultural flourishing to Eurasia enabling the Renaissance and changing history.

    In conversation with Jason Goodwin
    When: Tuesday 9th November 2022 @ 5.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Hotel
    Sponsored by: Adam Tindall
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  • Event 18 | Manni Coe & Reuben Coe | brother. do. you. love. me.

    £12.00

    Manni Coe & Reuben Coe - brother. do. you. love. me.

    Reuben, aged 38, had been living in a home providing specialised care for adults with learning disabilities. For months he had been non-verbal, cut off from everyone he loved. In despair, he sent his older brother a text message: ‘brother. do. you. love. me.’ Immediately, Manni left his home in Spain, took Reuben out of care and moved them both into a cottage in the countryside where they discovered how to rebuild the bonds of brotherhood. Through their story they explore how, individually and collectively, we can all take better care of each other.

    In conversation with Sophy Roberts

    When: Tuesday 9th November 2022 @ 7.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 19 | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | Good Comfort

    £12.00

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - Good Comfort - Best Loved Favourites Made Better For You

    In Good Comfort, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall makes our favourite foods healthier using the best whole ingredients, celebrated in all their colourful and seasonal diversity. Ultimately, he leads us on a journey to tweak our tastebuds and pamper our palates so that we can take as much pleasure – and ultimately more – from familiar dishes that we know will also do us good. With River Cottage also coming back to our screens this year, we take time to celebrate this wonderful local food hero who brings both pleasure and politics to the heart of what we eat.

    If you wish, you may follow the event with a sumptuous meal cooked by the Sladers Yard kitchen and inspired by the recipes in Hugh's book.

    In conversation with Prue Keely

    £40 3 Course Dinner
    When: Tuesday 9th November 2022 @ 6.30 pm
    Where: Sladers Yard
    Sponsored by: Rachel and Allan James
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  • Event 20 | Vanessa Berridge | Borde Hill Garden

    £12.00

    Vanessa Berridge - Borde Hill Garden - A Plant Hunter’s Paradise

    Renowned for its magnificent collections of trees and flowering shrubs from across the world, Borde Hill is one of Britain’s great heritage gardens. Vanessa Berridge, garden historian and former magazine editor, tells the story of this spectacular garden, explaining its botanical importance as a living link with the golden era of plant hunting and horticultural derring-do, and with wonderful photographs by John Glover. From 1893, Vanessa charts the history of its development as one of the nation’s most important gardens and woodland.

    An illustrated talk

    When: Wednesday 9th November 2022 @ 10.30 am
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Sue and David Orr
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  • Event 21 | Roger Morgan-Grenville | Taking Stock

    £12.00

    Roger Morgan-Grenville - Taking Stock - A Journey Among Cows

    Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother’s vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows. So much so that, at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part-time labourer at a beef cattle farm to tell their side of the story. The result is this lyrical and evocative book, part unsentimental manifesto for how we should treat cows and how blissfully unaware we are of the de-natured lives we often ask them to lead. Taking Stock explores the 10,000 years our lives have been intertwined with cattle and how we know so little about them.

    An illustrated talk

    When: Wednesday 10th November 2022 @ 12 noon
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Rob and Alex Appelby
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  • Event 22 | Max Egremont | The Glass Wall

    £12.00

    Max Egremont - The Glass Wall - Lives on the Baltic Frontier

    Few countries have suffered from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small nations such Latvia and Estonia found themselves caught between the giants of Germany and Russia, on a route across which armies surged or retreated. Their independence and safety is threatened yet again by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Max Egremont reveals a fascinating part of Europe, on a frontier whose limits may still be in doubt.

    In conversation with James Crowden

    When: Wednesday 9th November 2022 @ 2.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Helen and Andrew Carless | Rachel and Allan James
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  • Event 23 | Andy West | The Life Inside

    £12.00

    Andy West - The Life Inside - A Memoir of Family, Philosophy & Prison

    What’s the point of teaching philosophy to prisoners? Why feel guilty because members of your close family have been to prison? These are the agonising conundrums Andy West struggles with in his professional and personal life, which he recounts in a raw and unsentimental way. Questions about responsibility, forgiveness, shame, truth are the stuff of everyday life, but more so of prison.

    In conversation with Prue Keely

    When: Wednesday 9th November 2022 @ 4.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 24 | Lucy Cooke | Bitch

    £12.00

    Lucy Cooke - Bitch - A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal

    Award-winning broadcaster and filmmaker Lucy Cooke demonstrates how the female of the species was marginalised and misunderstood by the scientific patriarchy.  Starting with Darwin, who cast the female as passive, coy and monogamous,  Bitch tells the story of the females (both animal and human) that have redefined the very forces that shape evolution. She introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, who are recasting the female of the species.

    An illustrated talk

    When: Wednesday 9th November 2022 @ 6.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event A | Charlie Fuge | Bridlit Kids

    £3.00

    Charlie Fuge - Bridlit Kids - Storytelling

    Festival favourite Charlie Fuge will bring his fabulous illustrations to life with an hour of gentle fun for children - parents on hand please! He will be reading from books he has written and illustrated, and showing how he sketches the pictures in his head onto paper. Children will be able to see their own story characters come to life, and draw creatures of their own.

    An illustrated talk

    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @ 10.00 am
    Where: Bridport Library
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  • Event B | Hamish Whiteley | Growing Up With Grandma

    £2.00

    Hamish Whiteley - Growing Up With Grandma - Taking Tea with Hamish

    Hamish Whiteley is not only a teacher and lecturer in the Performing Arts, he is a brilliant story-teller. Growing Up With Grandma tells of one year in the life of a nine year old boy living with his grandparents in Huddersfield in 1959. He wants to be good and helpful but this is far from simple. Turkeys, bagpipes, kippers and a bed of nails get in the way.

    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @ 2.30 pm
    Where: Bridport Library
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  • Event 25 | Gavin Mortimer | David Stirling

    £12.00

    Gavin Mortimer - David Stirling - The Phoney Major - The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

    Best selling author and historian, Gavin Mortimer, gives a gripping and controversial account of David Stirling’s complex character. The formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the ‘father’ of special services soldiering. BUT was he really a military genius or shameless publicist who manipulated people and the truth? While instrumental in selling the SAS to Churchill, it was his second in command Paddy Mayne who, in the early days, really carried the Regiment. This is a riveting biography of Stirling; of a flawed character who remains legendary.

    An illustrated talk
    When: Thursday 10th November 2021 @ 10.30 am
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 26 | Hannah Bourne-Taylor | Fledgling

    £12.00

    Hannah Bourne-Taylor - Fledgling

    The daughter of a biologist and conservationist, Hannah Bourne-Taylor, grew up in the English countryside. In her late 20s, she found herself living in rural Ghana for her husband’s work. Without a job or purpose of her own, she sank into depression, suffering from acute anxiety. This is both a raw and yet uplifting account of Hannah’s unexpected bond with the land around her and, in particular, with two wild birds which she rescues and raises before releasing into the wild. Brimming with determination and hope, her story reminds us all that nature can provide solace in the most unexpected ways.

    In conversation with Olivia Glazebrook
    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @ 12 noon
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 27 | AC Grayling | For the Good of the World

    £12.00

    AC Grayling - For the Good of the World - Technology, Climate, Justice and Rights

    Global problems and technologies are outstripping our moral and current political capacity to deal with them. Every day brings new stories about extreme weather events, spyware, lethal autonomous weapons systems, health and human rights imbalances. AC Grayling argues that we need to find a positive answer to the question Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? This event is hosted by Colfox School, where members of the public can join with 6th form students.

    Tickets: £12

    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @ 2.00 pm
    Where: Sir John Colfox Academy
    Sponsored by: John & Maggie Mills
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  • Event 28 | Robert Twigger | 36 Islands

    £10.00

    Robert Twigger - 36 Islands - In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District

    Many of us are accustomed to walking in the majestic hills and peaks of the Lake District - but what about the lakes themselves, and more specifically the islands? Robert Twigger spent 36 days sleeping a different night on a different island. He follows a route through the Lake District, wild swimming to islands and using a super lightweight pack-raft to transport his gear. Each chapter covers a different lake and woven into the narrative are stories, maps and fascinating historical material - from retreats for saints and kennels for hunting dogs, to Beatrix Potter and Arthur Ransome.

    An illustrated talk

    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @3.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 29 | Nick Pitt | Ghosts!

    £10.00

    Nick Pitt - Ghosts - who writes for whom?

    Ghost-writers have become ubiquitous in fiction and in non-fiction, some visible and acknowledged, some kept invisible, and legally gagged, in the pretence that their book was written by a celebrity. Nick Pitt, a former sports editor with The Sunday Times, who assisted Barry Hearn, the sporting impresario, with his best-selling autobiography: My Life: Knockouts, Snookers, Bullseyes, Tight Lines and Sweet Deals spills the beans on publishing’s benign collaborations and shameful secrets. Both explosive and entertaining.

    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @ 5.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 30 | Ben Short | Burn

    £10.00

    Ben Short - Burn - A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing

    Local writer, Ben Short, evokes the transformative power of nature forged in the woods of West Dorset. After years of an anxiety disorder and depression, Ben left a seemingly successful life in London to recover a sense of himself. Putting the years of suffering behind him and starting afresh he immersing himself in the ancient ways of woods and fire and the life of a charcoal burner. This is a frank and inspiring memoir.

    In conversation with Jason Webster

    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @ 6.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 31 | Graham Fawcett | Ezra Pound

    £12.00

    Graham Fawcett - Ezra Pound

    One of the most dramatic pioneers in 20th century literature, Ezra Pound changed the face of European poetry. Pound’s life and work trace a fascinating path from Idaho to Venice, to the Regent Street Polytechnic, to West Sussex, to Paris and back to Italy. There are stories and poems from all of these places, where his hunger for other cultures feeds the spectacular originality of his adventure on the page. Graham Fawcett gives audiences an experience more like listening to a live radio programme, and there will be plenty of examples from Pound’s poetry. £20 main course dinner
    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @ 6.30 pm
    Where: Sladers Yard
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  • Event 32 | Sir Nicholas Coleridge | The George Millar Literary Dinner

    £65.00

    Sir Nicholas Coleridge - The George Millar Literary Dinner

    We are delighted to welcome Sir Nicholas Coleridge, the distinguished journalist, magazine editor and author, to talk about his bestselling autobiography: The Glossy Years, described by The Sunday Times as “the most entertaining book of the year”. Having spent nearly twenty years at the helm of Conde Nast, publishers of numerous titles from Vogue and House and Garden to Architectural Digest and The New Yorker, Sir Nicholas is currently the Chair of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Chairman of the Campaign for Wool and this year’s co-chair of HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant. He is also the author of several best selling books including The Fashion Conspiracy and six novels. He has been a member of the Council for the Royal College of Art and twice Chairman of the British Fashion Council, overseeing London Fashion Week. He is the recipient of many awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award as the Outstanding Contributor to British Media. Most recently he was knighted in HM The Queen’s Birthday Honours this year. His autobiography takes us from his schooldays, through Cambridge, working as a cub reporter on the Falmouth Packet newspaper, getting jailed in Sri Lanka whilst making a tv documentary on Tamil terrorism, to become editor of Harpers & Queen magazine and long term supremo of Conde Nast. Sir Nicholas will also take us behind the scenes of the V&A and share stories of this year’s Jubilee Pageant.

    When: Thursday 10th November 2022 @ 7.00 pm
    Where: Tithe Barn
    Sponsored by:Richard and Emily Cave, Morrish & Banham, The Symondsbury Estate, Furleigh Estate
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  • Event 33 | David Burnett | Lost Dorset

    £12.00

    David Burnett - Lost Dorset - The Towns 1880 - 1920

    Author and publisher, David Burnett, presents a glorious illustrated talk of Dorset Towns between 1880 - 1920, and his book is a companion to a previous volume on the Villages and Countryside of Dorset. However, Dorset’s towns have a very distinct identity of their own, with social life taking place on the street, fostering a sense of community - be they on the coast, inland market towns, or scattered heathland settlements. For some, time stood still, as others grew dramatically. A few of the 375 postcards chosen for the book are extremely rare and combine to make a unique portrait of urban Dorset. An illustrated talk
    When: Friday 11th November 2022 @10.30 am
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Felicity Fairbairn
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  • Event 34 | Maggie O’Farrell | The Marriage Portrait

    £12.00

    Maggie O'Farrell - The Marriage Portrait

    Award winning author of the bestselling Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel is on a very different theme to that of Shakespeare’s tragic young son. The Marriage Portrait is a vivid evocation of the beauty and brutality of Renaissance Italy and of the short life of a young woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger. In 1560, aged 15, Lucrezia di Medici replaces her dead sister as the fiancee to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara. Lucrezia suddenly realises Alfonso’s sole intention is to kill her. O’Farrell has written a compelling renaissance thriller. In conversation with Sally Laverack
    When: Friday 11th November 2022 @ 12 noon
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Carol Hammick
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  • Event 35 | Melvyn Bragg | Back in the Day

    £12.00

    Melvyn Bragg - Back in the Day - A Memoir

    Melvyn Bragg revisits his childhood and youth growing up above a pub in the bustling Cumbrian market town of Wigton surrounded by the inspirational beauty of the lakeland landscape. From the early years alone with his mother, while his father fought in the war, to the moment he left for Oxford University and pastures new, this is the captivating memoir of a working class boy with a passion for books. His is an insight into what shaped his life as writer, broadcaster and champion of The Arts. Melvyn is the supremo of the award winning South Bank Show since 1977 and has hosted BBC Radio Four’s addictive In Our Time since 1998. In conversation with Bryan Appleyard
    When: Friday 11th November 2022 @ 2.30 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Robert and Diana Clarke
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  • Event 36 | Bryan Appleyard | The Car

    £12.00

    Bryan Appleyard - The Car - The Rise and Fall of the Machine that made the Modern World

    Award winning feature writer and journalist, Bryan Appleyard, celebrates the immense drama and beauty of the car, the embodiment of genius and the limitless power of its complex systems. More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available - inspiring cinema, music and literature; they have need for roads, bridges, filling stations, huge factories and global supply chains and have re-engineered the world. He tells the story of the rise and fall of the incredible machine that has made the modern world what it is today. In conversation with Boris Starling
    When: Friday 11th November 2022 @ 4.30 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
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  • Event 37 | Kit de Waal | Without Warning and Only Sometimes

    £12.00

    Kit de Waal - Without Warning and Only Sometimes - Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood

    From award-winning author of My Name is Leon, comes a childhood memoir which is stinging, warm-hearted, and true. In a household of opposites and extremes, and caught between three worlds, Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham, Kit de Waal and her siblings knew all the words to the best songs, caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape. Without Warning and Only Sometimes is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer, went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day. In conversation with Lisa Blower
    When: Friday 11th November 2022 @ 6.30 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
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  • Event 38 | George Monbiot | Regenesis

    £12.00

    George Monbiot - Regenesis - Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

    From the bestselling author of Feral, George Monbiot gives a revolutionary vision of a future for food and for humanity. He argues that farming is the world’s greatest cause of environmental destruction - and one which we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed and grazed great tracts of land, felling trees, killing wildlife and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Now the system is faltering. Monbiot urges how to resolve this dilemma. In conversation with Samantha Knights
    When: Saturday 12th November 2022 @ 10.30 am
    Where: Electric Palace
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  • Event 39 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | The World

    £12.00

    Simon Sebag Montefiore - The World

    Internationally bestselling author, Simon Sebag Montefiore, gives a dazzling celebration of the human story, from caves to drones. Unlike any previous world history, he uses ‘family’ to tell the story. From places as diverse as Haiti, Cambodia and Congo as well as Europe, China and the Americas, Montefiore steers us through themes of war, migration, plague, religion and technology to the people at the heart of the human drama. In conversation with Prue Keely
    When: Saturday 12th November 2022 @ 12noon
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Rosi and Clive de Ruig | Annabelle and David Nabarro
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  • Event 40 | Colin Thubron | The Amur River

    £12.00

    Colin Thubron - The Amur River - Between Russia and China

    In his 80th year, Colin Thubron, acclaimed travel writer and novelist, made a dramatic and ambitious journey along the 3000 mile river that divides China and Russia. The Amur River is almost unknown and Thubron’s journey from the river’s secret source in Mongolia flowing through Siberia to its giant mouth in the Pacific, charts a hair-raising adventure which offers a unique perspective of two of the world’s superpowers.

    In conversation with Christian Tyler
    When: Saturday 12th November 2022 @ 2.30pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Francesca Radcliffe
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  • Event 41 | David Owen | Riddle, Mystery and Enigma

    £12.00

    David Owen - Riddle, Mystery and Enigma - Two Hundred Years of British-Russian Relations

    Britain’s relationship with Russia is surprisingly under-explored. When the two countries formed a pragmatic alliance at Navarino in 1827, relations then fell apart with the Crimean War. Not until the 1917 Revolution did Winston Churchill - opposed to Bolshevism - advocate diplomacy with Russia which necessitated allying with the Soviets against Nazi Germany in WWII. Bringing us into the 21st century, Lord Owen, a former Foreign Secretary, chronicles how both countries have responded to their geopolitical decline.

    In conversation with John Dean
    When: Saturday 12th November 2022 @ 4.00pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Tim Clarke
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  • Event 42 | PJ Harvey | Orlam

    £25.00

    PJ Harvey - Orlam

     PJ Harvey needs no introduction. In her book Orlam, drawing on rituals, children’s songs, chants and superstitions of the rural West Country, 9 year old Ira-Abel creates the twin realm through which she can make sense of an increasingly confusing and frightening world. The result is a poem-sequence of light and shadow. Written in Dorset dialect, Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as not only a talented songwriter, but a gifted poet – whose formal skill, and transforming eye and ear, has produced a strange and moving poem like no other.

    In conversation with Greta Stoddart £28 2 course dinner
    When: Saturday 12th November 2022 @ 6.00pm
    Where: Sladers Yard
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  • Event 43 | Jeremy Bowen | The Making of the Modern Middle East

    £12.00

    Jeremy Bowen - The Making of the Modern Middle East - A Personal History

    Jeremy Bowen is the BBC’s Middle East Editor and, since 1989, has reported from around the world covering thirteen wars including Afghanistan, Lebanon, Chechnya, Assad’s Syria and Netanyahu’s Israel. Based on his acclaimed podcast, his new book takes us a journey through the Middle East and explores the power games that have wreaked devastation on civilians as their leaders jostle for political, religious and economic control. Bowen explains the complex past and troubled present of a region that at times seems ungovernable.

    In conversation with Barney White-Spunner
    When: Saturday 12th November 2022 @ 7.00pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Martin and Lindsay Bowdery
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