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dorset literary festival 2019.indd 1 22/07/2019 16:56:08 WELCOME SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS We are grateful to the following: A warm welcome to the fifth Dorchester Literary Festival, now an established and much- loved event in our county town’s cultural calendar. Our aim is to provide entertainment MAIN SPONSORS and enlightenment to readers in a town famous for its literary legacy. Whatever type of books you enjoy, whether it be fiction, history, nature, wildlife, cookery, gardening, travel, health, biography, art or interior design, we hope there will be something in this year’s varied programme to tempt you to come along. Duke’s AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1823 We are thrilled this year to be able to bring an array of notable writers, ranging from GOLD SPONSORS brilliant novelists - Tracy Chevalier, Alexander McCall Smith, Tim Pears and Victoria Hislop, to acclaimed historians Simon Heffer, A. N. Wilson, Kate Williams and Leo McKinstry. Poetry comes under the spotlight when Adam Nicolson joins us to talk about Wordsworth and Coleridge’s creative year in the Quantocks, and we are very honoured that our former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy will join us for a special event in November, to read and discuss her latest work Sincerity. Travel is also a highlight: Monisha Rajesh travelled the world by train, Dom Joly walked perilously through the Lebanon, Henrietta Lovell scoured LOCAL WRITING LAUNCH PARTY CARS PROVIDED the world for rare tea, and best-selling author Raynor Winn walked along the South West PRIZE SPONSOR SPONSOR BY Coast Path to overcome personal tragedy. They are all coming to talk about their amazing adventures. We will also highlight underwater exploration with Jon Copley, nature writing Mercedes-Benz with John Wright and Tristan Gooley, gardening with Fiona Davison, cookery with Prue Leith of Dorchester and Sabrina Ghayour, interior design with colour specialist Joa Studholme and we are Mercedes-BenzMercedes-Benz delighted that Lady Carnarvon is coming to talk about life at Highclere, the real Downton Abbey. Our programme also remembers some notable anniversaries: art historian Martin ofof Dorchester Dorchester Kemp discusses Leonardo’s work and his life as an authority on the great artist, and Oliver EVENT SPONSORS Morton talks about his acclaimed book The Moon.
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SATURDAY 12TH OCTOBER FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER
6.00pm ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH – The Land of Long Lost Friends, The Peppermint Tea 10.30am OLIVER MORTON – The Moon, Dorford Centre Chronicles, The Second Worst Restaurant in France, The Department of Sensitive Crimes, in conversation with Al Senter, The Dorford Centre, Bridport Road 12.00 VICTORIA HISLOP – Those Who are Loved, in conversation with Alex Heminsley, Dorford Centre, sponsored by Battens Solicitors TUESDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2.00pm SIR TIM WATERSTONE – The Face Pressed Against the Window, in conversation with Jess Thompson, Dorford Centre 4.30pm A N WILSON – Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy, Dorford Centre, sponsored by Peter Gunning & Partners 4.00pm RAYNOR WINN – The Salt Path, in conversation with Alex Heminsley, Corn Exchange, sponsored by Poundbury Clinic 6.00pm SABRINA GHAYOUR – Bazaar, in conversation with Jason Goodwin, Dorford Centre 6.00pm ADAM NICOLSON – The Making of Poetry, in conversation with Jason Goodwin, 7.30pm JON COPLEY – Ask an Ocean Explorer, Dorford Centre, Corn Exchange, sponsored by Books Beyond Words sponsored by O’Brien Building Services
WEDNESDAY 16TH OCTOBER SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER
11am SIMON HEFFER – Staring at God – Britain in the Great War, in conversation with 10.30am FIONA DAVISON – The Hidden Horticulturalists, in conversation with Vanessa Paul Atterbury, Dorford Centre, sponsored by Dorchester BID Berridge, Corn Exchange, sponsored by Duchy of Cornwall 12.30pm KERRY DAYNES – The Dark Side of the Mind, in conversation with Emma Howard, 12.00 noon JOA STUDHOLME – Recipes for Decorating, Corn Exchange Dorford Centre 2.00pm MONISHA RAJESH – Round the World in 80 Trains, in conversation with Emma 2.00pm LINDA GEDDES – Chasing the Sun, Dorford Centre Howard, Corn Exchange 4.00pm FIONA, COUNTESS OF CARNARVON – Christmas at Highclere, Dorford Centre 4.00pm KATE WILLIAMS – The Rival Queens, Corn Exchange, sponsored by Acheson 6.00pm PRUE LEITH – Prue: My All Time Favourite Recipes, in conversation with Steve Harris Dorford Centre, sponsored by Domvs 6.00pm DOM JOLY – The Hezbollah Hiking Club, in conversation with Danny Danziger, Corn Exchange THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER SUNDAY 20TH OCTOBER 10.30am LEO MCKINSTRY – Atlee and Churchill, in conversation with Paul Atterbury, Town Hall 9.30am A Walk Around Thomas Hardy’s Dorchester with DR TONY FINCHAM, Town Pump TRISTAN GOOLEY – Wild Signs and Star Paths 12.00 noon , Town Hall, sponsored by Piddle 11.00am MARTIN KEMP – Living with Leonardo, in conversation with Paul Atterbury, Valley Vets Corn Exchange 2.00pm TIM PEARS – The Redeemed, in conversation with Dr Tony Fincham, Town Hall, sponsored by the Thomas Hardy Society 3.00pm TRACY CHEVALIER – A Single Thread, Corn Exchange, sponsored by Poundbury Wealth Management 4.00pm HENRIETTA LOVELL – Infused, with cream tea, Town Hall, sponsored by Cathie’s Coffee Shop 6.00pm JOHN WRIGHT – The Forager’s Calendar, Town Hall, sponsored by Sally Weld SPECIAL FESTIVAL EVENT SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 7.00pm CAROL ANN DUFFY – Sincerity, Former Poet Laureate reads and discusses her latest CHILDREN’S EVENTS AT DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY work, Thomas Hardye School Theatre TUESDAY 15TH OCTOBER 10.30am Rhyme Time with Miffy OTHER SPECIAL LINKED EVENTS THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER 1.00pm CHRISSIE GITTINS – Poetry for Children FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER 11.00am TREE HOUSE THEATRE – Pirates Ahoy! SATURDAY 26TH OCTOBER 7.00pm SUNDAY 27TH OCTOBER 2.00pm, 7.00pm FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER 5.00pm ANTHONY BURT – Creative Writing Workshop Curtis Butterworth Loves Molly May – a play based on a story by NATASHA SOLOMONS, SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER 10.00am EILEEN BROWNE – Handa’s Surprise The Pointe, Durngate Street, DT1 1NA
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6.00pm Dorford Centre, Bridport Road 6.00pm Dorford Centre, Bridport Road ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH SABRINA GHAYOUR To The Land of Long Lost Friends, The Peppermint Tea Chronicles, Bazaar The Second Worst Restaurant in France, The Department of Vibrant vegetarian and plant-based recipes from the Sunday Times No1 bestselling Persiana Sirocco Feasts Sensitive Crimes author of , and Alexander McCall Smith will talk about his prolific writing career and the Bazaar is a colourful, flavourful and satisfying celebration of Middle Eastern latest book in the much loved No I Ladies Detective Agency series, the latest vegetable dishes, designed to suit every occasion and every palate. The book instalment in the world’s longest running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street , as is filled with easy to achieve dishes packed with flavour that will win overthe well as the sequel to My Italian Bulldozer and the first in a new Scandi blanc most die-hard carnivore. Sabrina’s recipes use an abundance of varied flavours, series, the Detective Varg Mysteries. spices, herbs and include salads for all seasons, spectacular sides, bowl comfort, moreish mains and sweet treats. Alexander McCall Smith CBE FRSE is the British Zimbabwean author of over eighty books on a wide array of subjects. He has sold over 25 million copies of his books world-wide and they have been translated into 46 languages. He is Sabrina Ghayour is an award-winning, bestselling cookery author who has also Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and holds popularised Persian and Middle Eastern food around the world. She is a regular honorary doctorates from thirteen universities. face on British television on Saturday Kitchen, Great British Menu and Celebrity Masterchef. Alexander McCall Smith will be in conversation with Al Senter, the host of Celebrities, a series of actor interviews at the National Theatre. He is a regular Sabrina will be in conversation with Jason Goodwin, an award-winning travel- interviewer at literary festivals in Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Henley, Wimbledon writer, novelist and food writer. and Richmond. TUESDAY 15TH OCTOBER Proud Sponsors of the Dorchester Literary Festival Founded in Dorchester in 1970, PGP have been providing property and construction consultancy services for both public and 4.30pm Dorford Centre, Bridport Road private sector clients ever since. A N Wilson Whether it’s delivering phases of Dorchester’s iconic ‘Brewery Square’ town centre development or working with the Dorset County Museum to secure HLF funding for their substantial expansion project, we tailor our services to our clients’ specific needs. Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy The success story of the British royal family can be laid at the door of Prince Covering the length and breadth of the country on a wide range of projects from private dwellings to penguin enclosures, public houses to churches, PGP have evolved into a professional, multifaceted, construction consultancy with specialist cost and project Albert, who, after his death in 1861, became a man who could do no wrong. management at its core. We even have an in-house design studio. His statues were to be seen all over the Empire, while Albert Halls, Albert Streets, and Albert Squares filled every English-speaking town as well as many in India. As part of our professional, independent service we provide project feasibility costings, procurement advice, preparation of tender and contract documentation and the management of building projects from inception to completion. In this exhaustively researched and definitive biography A N Wilson reveals We pride ourselves on offering positive and intelligent advice to provide the very best service to all our clients. Prince Albert to be a man of prodigious gifts. he was scientifically informed, T. 01305 265 977 (Dorchester) or 01225 447 564 (Bath) E. [email protected] embraced modern technology, artistically knowledgeable as well as being an Offices in Dorchester, Bath & the West Midlands accomplished musician and composer. A N Wilson is an acclaimed biographer, novelist and newspaper columnist. His previous books include The Victorians, Victoria: A Life, C S Lewis, The Book of the People, and Charles Darwin. Sponsored by Peter Gunning & Partners 8 | Book Tickets via www.dorchesterliteraryfestival.com Dorchester Literary Festival 2019 | 9
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2.00pm Dorford Centre, Bridport Road 4.00 pm Dorford Centre, Bridport Road LINDA GEDDES FIONA, COUNTESS OF CARNARVON Chasing the Sun Christmas at Highclere: Recipes and Traditions from the real Downton Abbey The full story of how our relationship with the sun shapes our health, productivity Highclere Castle is the resplendent setting for the TV series and film Downton and mood. Abbey. As Downton fever returns and the Grantham family make their appearance on the big screen, Lady Carnarvon will reveal what it’s like behind The Sun is central to humankind. Our ancestors constructed vast monuments to the scenes when filming takes place, as well as stories about some ofthe keep track of it and it has always dictated our daily patterns of eating, sleeping fascinating previous inhabitants of Highclere. and activity as well as our culture and belief systems. She will also talk about the management of the great house: how Highclere Bursting with original research, Chasing the Sun tells the story of our complex runs through the year, and share the festive rituals and traditions of Highclere relationship with the sun, from the emergence of life to the modern day, asking at Christmas. us to rethink the sun’s significance and showing us how it helps improve our health, sleep and productivity. Fiona, 8th Countess Carnarvon, is a former auditor for Coopers & Lybrand. She and her husband Geordie, 8th Earl Carnarvon, live quietly with a menagerie Linda Geddes is a science journalist who specialises in biology, medicine including seven dogs, too many horses, a brood of chickens, a rabbit and a and technology. She has worked as an editor and reporter for New Scientist pet sheep. Magazine and won numerous awards for her journalism.
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6.00pm Dorford Centre, Bridport Road 10.30am Town Hall PRUE LEITH LEO McKINSTRY Prue: My All Time Favourite Recipes Attlee and Churchill – Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace Prue Leith draws on a life-long passion for food with a hundred recipes from her Throughout history there have been many long-running rivalries between party own kitchen table. These are delicious, fuss-free dishes that Prue has cooked leaders, but never a connection like that between Churchill and Attlee. Brought countless times for family and friends. They include quick-to-whip-up suppers together in the epoch-making circumstances of the Second World War, they and dinner party showstoppers, lazy leftovers and exciting combinations. forged a partnership that transcended party lines for five years.
This is Prue’s first cookery book in twenty-five years, and she has woven intimate If Churchill was the giant of the war, Attlee was the hero of the peace. They and witty stories from her life around many of the recipes. represented the best of the English character: Churchill, martial spirit and courageous determination; Attlee decency, stoicism, fair play and an aversion Founder of the renowned Leith’s cookery school, restauranteur, caterer, to show. teacher, TV cook, journalist and judge of The Great British Bake Off, Prue Leith has been at the forefront of the British food scene for nearly six decades. Leo McKinstry is a leading historian of the Second World War and author of the bestselling Spitfire and Hurricane. He writes regularly for the Daily Mail, Prue Leith will join us to speak about her latest book and stellar career in Sunday Telegraph and Spectator. He will discuss his ground-breaking book in conversation with BBC Radio Solent presenter, Steve Harris. conversation with DLF founder and Co-Director, Paul Atterbury.
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2.00pm Town Hall 6.00pm Town Hall HARDY TODAY JOHN WRIGHT TIM PEARS The Forager’s Calendar The Redeemed Look out of your window, walk down a country path or go to the beach in Great It is 1916. The world has gone to war and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal Britain, and there’s much that you can take home and eat. From dandelions aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from the wild, unchanging West in spring to sloe berries in autumn, via wild garlic, samphire, chanterelles and Country roads of his boyhood.Skimming through those West Country roads on even grasshoppers, our countryside is full of edible delights in any season. her motorcycle, Lottie Prideaux defies expectations as she covertly studies to be a vet, unaware that her world will be blown apart by betrayal and loss. John Wright is the country’s foremost expert and forager at River Cottage. In this seasonal guide he shows us what species can be found and where, In a world disrupted by war how can old ways survive and the future be how to identify them, and how to store, use and cook them. Whether you are imagined? How can Leo, lost and wandering find his way home? interested in wild food and want to explore the great outdoors, or are happiest foraging from your armchair John will guide you, advising on kit, conservation The final instalment in Tim Pears’ West Country Trilogy, The Redeemed was and what to avoid in an entertaining manner. selected as a book of 2019 by The Guardian, Scotsman and The Times. Sponsored by Sally Weld Tim Pears will be in conversation with Dr Tony Fincham, Chairman of the Thomas Hardy Society
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10.30 Dorford Centre, Bridport Road 12.00 Dorford Centre, Bridport Road OLIVER MORTON VICTORIA HISLOP The Moon Those Who Are Loved Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the In this powerful new best-selling novel Victoria Hislop sheds light on the complexity beauty of the moon. Fifty years ago, Americans became the first to do the and trauma of Greece’s past and weaves it into the epic tale of an ordinary reverse - and earth-bound audiences shared their view of their own planet. woman compelled to live an extraordinary life.
In his wide-ranging book, Oliver Morton explores the history and future of Athens 1941. After decades of political uncertainty, Greece is polarised between humankind’s relationship with the moon.. From early astronomers such as Right- and Left-wing views when the Germans invade. Fifteen-year-old Themis Galileo, through the first space flights, Morton anticipates the next phase of our comes from a family divided by these political differences. The Nazi occupation interaction with the moon as a portal to deeper exploration of space. deepens the fault-lines between those she loves just as it reduces Greece to destitution. She watches friends die in the ensuing famine and is moved to commit Advanced technology, new ambitions and old dreams mean that men, acts of resistance. Eventually imprisoned on the islands of Makronisos and Trikeri, women and robots now seem certain to return to the moon. What will they Themis is forced to weigh principles against a desire to escape and live. learn there about the universe, the earth and themselves - and this time will they stay? Victoria Hislop will be in conversation with Alexandra Heminsley, best-selling author of Running Like a Girl and Leap In, who is currently working on a memoir and a novel.
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2.00pm Dorford Centre, Bridport Road 4.00pm Corn Exchange SIR TIM WATERSTONE RAYNOR WINN The Face Pressed Against the Window The Salt Path Tim Waterstone is one of Britain’s most celebrated business leaders, having A Sunday Times bestseller, short listed for the Costa Biography Award The Salt built the Waterstone empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982. In Path tells the uplifting true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the childhood experiences on a journey of salvation across the windswept South West coastline. that led him to become an entrepreneur and outlines the business philosophy that allowed Waterstone to dominate the bookselling business throughout the Days after Raynor learned that her husband of 32 years was terminally ill, they country. From his formative years in a small town in rural England at the end of lost their home and livelihood. With nothing left and time running out, they the Second World War, to the troubled relationship he had with his father, and made the impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the South West Coast the epiphany he had while studying at Cambridge, this is the story of how one Path, from Somerset to Dorset via Devon and Cornwall. man became a familiar name in every high street. The Salt Path is a story about coming to terms with grief, the loss of a home, how Sir Tim Waterstone will be in conversation with journalist Jess Thompson. it can be rebuilt, and the healing power of the natural world.
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6.00pm Corn Exchange 10.30 am Corn Exchange ADAM NICOLSON FIONA DAVISON The Making of Poetry Hidden Horticulturalists Brimming with verse, nature and stunning woodcut illustrations, this is a A celebration of the unsung heroes of horticulture whose achievements reflect unique account of the year Coleridge and Wordsworth spent together in the a golden moment in British gardening and continue to influence how we Quantocks producing some of the most famous poems in the English language garden today. including The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, Wordsworth’s revolutionary verses in Lyrical Ballads and the great Tintern Abbey. In 2012, whilst working at the Royal Horticultural Society’s library, Fiona Davison unearthed a book of handwritten notes that dated back to 1822. Among them Award-winning writer Adam Nicolson tells the story, almost day by day, poem was a letter from the young Joseph Paxton, who would become one of Britain’s by poem, of the year in the late 1790s that Coleridge, Wordsworth, his sister best-known garden architects. Fiona Davison traces the stories of forgotten Dorothy and an ever-shifting cast of friends, dependants and acolytes spent lives who would contribute to the history of gardening. The trail took her from together in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. Chiswick to Bolivia and she uncovered tales of fraud, scandal, madness and amazing plants and gardens. Adam Nicolson is the winner of the Wainwright, Ondaatje, William Heinemann and Somerset Maugham prizes and now lives in Sussex and Crete. Fiona Davison will be in conversation with garden writer and journalist Vanessa Berridge, whose publications include The Joy of Gardening, The Princess’s Adam will be in conversation with author and award-winning travel writer Garden and Great British Gardeners Jason Goodwin. Sponsored by Duchy of Cornwall Sponsored by Books Beyond Words
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2.00pm Corn Exchange 4.00pm Corn Exchange MONISHA RAJESH KATE WILLIAMS Around the World in 80 Trains The Rival Queens When journalist Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe A scintillating and elegant fusion of royal biography and political thriller Rival in eighty train journeys, she was met with wide-eyed disbelief. But it wasn’t long Queens tells the gripping story of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of before she was plotting a route that would cover 45,000 miles - almost twice England, two powerful monarchs on a single island, surrounded by sycophants, the circumference of the earth - coasting along the world’s most remarkable spies and detractors, accosted for their dominion, their favour and their bodies. railways; from the cloud-skimming heights of Tibet to silk-sheeted splendour on Besieged by secret plots, devastating betrayals and a terrible final act only one the Venice Simplon Orient Express. queen could survive to rule all.
Packing her rucksack - and her fiancé, Jem, Monisha embarked on an Kate Williams is an author, social historian and broadcaster. She fell in love with unforgettable adventure from London to Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, history while studying for her BA and DPhil at the University of Oxford and has Canada, Kazakhstan and beyond. En route the pair struck up friendships and MAs from Queen Mary’s and Royal Holloway. She is a professor of history and swapped stories with the hilarious, irksome and endearing travellers they met. appears regularly on television.
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6.00pm Corn Exchange DOM JOLY The Hezbollah Hiking Club Approaching his fiftieth birthday, Dom Joly had an idea: along with two of his closest male friends, he’d go back to the country of his birth – Lebanon – and walk the Lebanon Mountain Trail, from the Israeli border in the south, along the spine of the country’s mountain range all the way to the Syrian border in the North. For Dom this was no ordinary tourist excursion, this was a homecoming, a reconciling with the past.
Dom was born in Beirut, living there all through the civil war and going to school with Osama Bin Laden. When he was eighteen, Dom moved permanently to the UK, becoming a diplomat, a political journalist and then a man who dressed as a giant squirrel shouting into an oversized mobile phone.
Dom Joly will be in conversation with best-selling author and journalist Danny Danziger.
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3.00pm Corn Exchange TRACY CHEVALIER A Single Thread It is 1932, and Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ‘surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone.
In Winchester Violet meets a disparate group of women charged with embroidering kneelers for the Cathedral. As the almost unthinkable threat of a second Great War appears on the horizon Violet collects a few secrets of her own that could just change everything.
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The Pointe, Durngate Street, Dorchester DT1 1NA Natasha Solomons is the author of Mr SPECIAL FESTIVAL EVENT Saturday 26th October, 7.00pm, Sunday 27th Rosenblum’s List, The Novel in the Viola, and 7.00pm Thomas Hardye’s School Theatre October 2.00pm and 7.00pm The House of Gold. She will be talking about her writing and her Dorset connections after CAROL ANN DUFFY Curtis Butterworth Loves Molly May – a play some of the performances. adapted from a story by Natasha Solomons Sincerity by Tim Laycock and Emma Hill, and set in and Woolly Pig Productions The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s around Bulbarrow Hill. has been formed by verse have made her a hugely admired and loved contemporary poet. Emma Hill and Tim Sincerity is Duffy’s last collection of poems to be published during her time as In 1930 a Hollywood actress recalls her humble Laycock to create Poet Laureate 2009-2019, and her first since the Costa Award-winning collection beginnings in rural Dorset. A bittersweet tale of new theatre based on The Bees. Time and its passage are at the heart of this collection, which gazes an unusual romance, Curtis Butterworth Loves literary and musical out from the autumn of life. Molly May is full of humour and local folklore, works by living Dorset the innovative use of physical theatre and writers. Carol Ann Duffy is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at new songs. Manchester Metropolitan University. Her many awards include the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E.M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed CHILDREN’S EVENTS Poet Laureate in 2009. Dorchester Library, Charles Street, Friday 18th October Dorchester DT1 1EF 5.00-7.00pm Tuesday 15th October – 10.30-11.00am and ANTHONY BURT 2.30-3.00 CREATIVE WRITING Dorchester Library will be theming their regular WORKSHOP FOR 12-16 Rhyme time sessions to the picture book Miffy YEAR OLDS by Dick Bruna. There’ll be rhymes and actions Anthony Burt is a galore for everyone to enjoy. FREE EVENT. qualified youth worker, screenwriter, journalist, th Thursday 17 October author and travel writer from Weymouth. He’s 1.00-2.30pm written scripts for Doctor Who, comics and POETRY FOR CHILDREN BY trained professional scriptwriters in Los Angeles. CHRISSIE GITTINS Anthony enjoys being a writer because you’re Local schools are invited allowed to let your imagination run wild and to a special event to meet make stuff up! He’s currently writing an exciting award-winning poet and time-travel adventure series with Imogen writer Chrissie Gittins. Chrissie Cooper. Anthony’s creative writing workshop is has published five collections aimed at 12-16 year olds. FREE EVENT. Places are of poetry for children and limited and need to be booked in advance, her poems have been see www.dorchesterliteraryfestival.com for link animated for CBeebies and or phone 01305 224440 are widely anthologised. th th Saturday 19 October Friday 18 October 11.00am 10.00am TREE HOUSE THEATRE PIRATES AHOY HANDA’S SURPRISE BY Treehouse Theatre will be entertaining pre- EILEEN BROWNE schoolers with their Story Box of Pirates Ahoy. Is the grass greener on the other Celebrating its 25th side? A swashbuckling pirate tale, with anniversary this year, plenty of Princesses too! Sing along to sea come along to hear shanties. Rather than passive entertainment, the wonderful story Treehouse Theatre want audiences to have of Handa’s Surprise at an experience that was unique because they Dorchester Library’s Library Gets Lively session. were there. FREE EVENT. Places are limited In this picture book classic, a delightful surprise and need to be booked in advance, see colourfully unfolds when a little girl called www.dorchesterliteraryfestival.com for link or Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket phone 01305 224440 to take to her friend. FREE EVENT.
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D L F Dorchester Literary Festival 2016 The Hall &Woodhouse DLF Joanna Trollope Kate Adie and Mark Austen Writing Prize 2020 For self or independently published authors living in, or well connected to the South West of England. Closing date for entries 15th March 2020 Award ceremony July 2020 Prize £1000 For full details see our website www.dorchesterliteraryfestival/ writing prize
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