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SUMMARY:Stephen Anderton – The Lives of the Great Gardeners
DESCRIPTION:The lives of 40 men and women behind some of the world’s most exciting gardens. Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners\, others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sister arts such as sculpture or painting; others have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in common is the ability to take an idea and develop it in a new manner relevant to their times. \n\n\n\nThe book contains four sections. ‘Gardens of Ideas’ moves from the politically allusive gardens of 18th-century England made by men such as William Kent\, to Charles Jencks’s Scottish garden inspired by 21st-century cosmography. ‘Gardens of Straight Lines’ explores the lives of the great formalist gardeners\, from Le Nôtre at Versailles to the rational English minimalism of contemporary designer Christopher BradleyHole. ‘Gardens of Curves’ begins with that great exponent of the English landscapegarden\, ‘Capability’ Brown\, and leads to the extraordinary Brazilian designer Roberto Burle Marx. Finally\, ‘Gardens of Plantsmanship’ moves from the father of naturalistic planting\, William Robinson\, to the sweeping prairies of New York’s favourite Dutch designer\, Piet Oudolf. \n\n\n\nAuthor Stephen Anderton is a journalist\, author\, lecturer and broadcaster. Best known as The Times’s long-standing writer on gardens and gardening (for which he has three times won first prize in the Garden Writers’ Guild awards)\, he worked for many years on the care and restoration of historic gardens\, latterly as National Gardens Manager for English Heritage. His books include Discovering Welsh Gardens and Christopher Lloyd: Great Dixter. \n\n\n\nStephen Anderton will be in conversation with Vanessa Berridge. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Monart Spa \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/stephen-anderton-the-lives-of-the-great-gardeners/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Justine Picardie – Chanel The Legend and the Life
DESCRIPTION:Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel\, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its publication in 2010\, hers has become the definitive Chanel biography. To coincide with a major exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum her new edition delves even deeper into the life and legacy of this eternally alluring woman. \n\n\n\nCoco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor – she conjured up the little black dress\, bobbed hair\, trousers for women\, contemporary chic\, best-selling perfumes\, and the most successful fashion brand of all time – but she also invented herself\, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture. \n\n\n\nWhile Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful\, what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker. Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships\, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation. \n\n\n\nJustine Picardie brings the mysterious Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding\, to celebrate her great achievements. She examines Chanel’s enduring afterlife\, as well as her remarkable life\, uncovering the consequences of what she covered up\, unpicking the seams between truth and legend\, yet keeping intact the real fabric of her past. \n\n\n\nJustine Picardie is the author of six acclaimed books. She is a contributing editor to Harper’s Bazaar\, having previously been its editor-in-chief. She was formerly an investigative journalist for the Sunday Times\, a columnist for the Telegraph\, editor of the Observer Magazine and features director of Vogue. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/justine-picardie-chanel-the-legend-and-the-life/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Ferdinand Mount – Big Caesars and Little Caesars
DESCRIPTION:How They Rise and How They Fall: From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson\n\n\n\nWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it’s become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. \n\n\n\nThere is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay\, Mill and Marx\, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism\, despite the odd hiccup. \n\n\n\nIn reality\, every democracy\, however sophisticated or stable it may look\, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar\, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback\, it is an ever-present danger. \n\n\n\nThere are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without opposition: from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolivar\, to Mussolini\, Salazar\, De Gaulle and Trump. The saga of Boris Johnson and Brexit frequently crops up in this author’s narrative as a vivid\, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon. \n\n\n\nThe final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief\, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump’s march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs\, and ends with a defence of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government. \n\n\n\nFerdinand Mount was born in 1939\, the son of a steeplechase jockey\, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford\, he made various false starts as a children’s nanny\, a gossip columnist\, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd\, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced\, slightly to his surprise and everyone else’s\, as head of Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit and later editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and three grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life. Apart from political columns and essays\, he has written a six-volume series of novels\, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight\, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand\, based on his father’s racing life\, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic)\, which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination\, including Umbrella\, which the historian Niall Ferguson called ‘quite simply the best historical novel in years’. \n\n\n\nSponsored by John and Jenny Patterson \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/ferdinand-mount-big-caesars-and-little-caesars/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:D J Taylor – George Orwell
DESCRIPTION:The definitive biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century from the award-winning writer and critic\, D.J. Taylor. \n\n\n\nOver seventy years since his premature death\, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces\, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 100 million copies. Even now\, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our understanding of international power-politics. \n\n\n\nD.J. Taylor’s new biography\, the first full- length study for 20 years\, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material – newly-discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues; the recollections of the dwindling band of people who knew him\, new information about his life in the early 1930s – to produce a definitive portrait of this complex\, driven and self-mythologising man. \n\n\n\nD.J. Taylor’s previous biography Orwell: The Life won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography. His other works of non-fiction include Thackeray (1999)\, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 (2007)\, The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016) and Lost Girls: Love\, War and Literature 1939–1951 (2019). He has written a dozen novels\, including English Settlement (1996)\, which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize\, Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011)\, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent books are the short story collection Stewkey Blues (2022) and Critic at Large: Essays and Reviews 2010-2022 (2023). His journalism appears in a variety of publications on both sides of the Atlantic\, including the Times Literary Supplement\, the Guardian\, the New Criterion\, the Critic and Private Eye. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norwich with his wife\, the novelist Rachel Hore. \n\n\n\nD J Taylor will be in conversation with Jason Goodwin. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/d-j-taylor-george-orwell/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Alan Titchmarsh – Chatsworth
DESCRIPTION:Follow Alan into Chatsworth’s irresistible world of visionaries\, pioneers\, heroes\, villains and English eccentrics\, and celebrate the men and women who have shaped the history of the estate over five centuries. With his passionate knowledge of both the house and gardens\, as well as his long-established relationship with the Cavendish family\, Alan is the perfect guide with whom to explore the Palace of the Peaks. \n\n\n\nFeaturing stunning\, specially commissioned photography of the gardens and parkland\, alongside long-forgotten images and memorabilia newly unearthed in the estate archives\, this vivid companion\, crowded with character and colour\, is a book to treasure and revisit over and over again. \n\n\n\nAlan Titchmarsh MBE is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Weekend\, Love Your Garden\, Ground Force\, Gardeners’ World\, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Spring Into Summer. He has written more than forty gardening books\, as well as twelve novels and three volumes of memoirs. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour\, the Royal Horticultural Society’s highest award. \n\n\n\nAlan Titchmarsh will be in conversation with Paul Atterbury \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/alan-titchmarsh-chatsworth/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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