Surprise award for BridLit director Tanya
Bridport Literary Festival director Tanya Bruce-Lockhart has been given a surprise award by Dorset High Sheriff George Streatfeild. Last week, as she was thanking the first author, Sir Barney White-Spunner, at [...]
Martin Maudsley – The King’s Ears
**Bonus Story** BridLit would not be BridLit without some Martin Maudsley. Sadly we can't see him live on stage as we did last year with the wonderful Lost Words, but here [...]
Suzanna Hubbard reads The Problem with Pierre by C. K. Smouha
Suzanna reads this sweet story of friendship and acceptance about Alan and Bertram who are next-door neighbours and best friends. They are also very, very different to one another. Bertram is [...]
Take a bow, BridLit team and authors. It’s not the final curtain
This blessed pandemic. It’s affecting all of us, all over the world, in so many ways. Just when we thought a live BridLit would be a shining beacon in a grey [...]
Charlie Fuge reads A Home Full of Friends by Charlie Fuge & Peter Bently
Charlie reads this heart-warming tale of a badger who finds how lovely it is to help his friends out when they most need it. This story is one of a trilogy [...]
Be part of something unique – BridLit 20
Although many events are sold out, with just a week to go before BridLit 20 opens, there are still a few tickets to be had. So if you’re a lover of [...]
Nicola Leader | The Hundred Acre Wood in Lockdown
The Hundred Acre Wood in Lockdown: a whimsical response to lockdown, written and read by Nicola Leader. During lockdown, as with many families, Nicola Leader and her family found new ways [...]
Middle England author Jonathan Coe on Billy Wilder
It’s as if BridLit director Tanya Bruce-Lockhart is some kind of literary festival magician. When Richard Osman had to pull out of the festival this week, there was disappointment all round. [...]



