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Mike Brearley, one of England’s most successful and celebrated cricket captains, is at Bridport Literary Festival on Saturday 11 November. He’ll be in conversation with Boris Starling talking about his new [...]

Palmers Brewery is holding a special quiz night at 11 of its pubs in support of Bridport Literary Festival. The quiz takes place on Wednesday 18 October and the money raised [...]

With the upcoming centenary of modern Turkey, which was proclaimed on 29 October 1923, Bridport Literary Festival is holding a Turkish afternoon with two top writers. In advance of the festival, [...]

Bestselling author Amanda Craig’s latest novel is a cracking read. Set against the backdrop of the Tuscan hills, ‘The Three Graces may occasionally teeter on the brink of riotous but it is [...]

In her book, The Seaside: England’s Love Affair, Madeleine Bunting explores England’s great coastal resorts to understand their origins and their heyday, their ongoing influence and their current struggle to survive. Says the [...]

Keggie Carew, who is at Bridport Literary Festival on 7 November, has been shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize in the writing on conservation category for her book, Beastly: A New History of [...]

The deadline for Bridport Literary Festival’s first student bursary scheme is fast approaching. Local students planning to go to university this autumn who are in Year 13 at the Beaminster-Colfox joint [...]

Calling all West Dorset book clubs! Bridport Literary Festival takes place in November and the programme is due to be unveiled at the beginning of August. But in a pre-programme announcement, [...]

Bridport Literary Festival’s first student bursary scheme has been boosted by a private trust fund. Two bursaries of £3,000 a year are now available to two local students who are in [...]