Bridport Read Easy looks to expand
Bridport Read Easy, the volunteer-led reading coaching programme for adults, is expanding. The group is now planning to build on its success in Bridport by reaching further north to cover rural areas [...]
Harriet Crawley’s enjoyable thriller ‘like an updated The Thirty-Nine Steps’
There’s a great review of The Translator by Harriet Crawley in the Times Literary Supplement. The author is with us on Wednesday 8 November in The Bull Ballroom at 2pm. Against [...]
High praise indeed for The Three Graces
When Enzo shoots an illegal migrant from his bedroom one night, it triggers a series of events that embroil old and young, rich and poor, native and foreign. His elderly neighbours [...]
BridLit bursary winners announced
The winners of Bridport Literary Festival’s first bursary award scheme have been announced. They are Jessica St Barbe Baker, from Mosterton, and Medwin Stephen, from Bridport. They will each receive £3,000 [...]
The story behind the classic novel, Black Beauty
Black Beauty is still a favourite book from childhood, more than 140 years after it was first published. It’s a novel that changed our world, becoming a beacon for the animal [...]
Tickets on sale for BridLit kids illustrated talk and workshop
Calling all families with children between the ages of three and seven! As part of Bridport Literary Festival, we have a special illustrated talk and workshop on Sunday 5 November at [...]
Rising star nurtured by Chris Packham
English zoologist, conservationist, photographer and television presenter Megan McCubbin knows a thing or two about nature. As well as all the above, she’s also the stepdaughter of naturalist and wildlife activist [...]
PJ Harvey’s praise for Max Porter’s latest novel
When Max Porter came to Bridport Literary Festival in 2019, it was one of the most amazing talks. Audiences loved it. His novel at the time, Lanny, was a Sunday Times bestseller and [...]
Chocolat author’s menopausal Carrie ‘blazes with anger and sorrow’
Imagine if Stephen King’s Carrie had lived and her powers had kicked in at the menopause instead. That’s the inspiration for bestselling author Joanne Harris’s new novel, Broken Light, after she reread [...]