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SUMMARY:Miles Johnson – Chasing Shadows
DESCRIPTION:**Event Cancelled** We regret to say that this event has been cancelled. If you have purchased tickets\, please contact us for a refund. \n\n\n\nA true story of drugs\, war and the secret world of international crime. McMafia meets Narcos and the dark side of globalisation set in the US\, Italy\, Colombia and the Middle East.A compulsive true crime thriller about modern-day international drugs trafficking\, terrorism and geopolitical intrigue following an investigation driven by one DEA agent\, Jack Kelly. \n\n\n\nThree very different men battle to control their destinies as they hurtle through the hall of mirrors of the global shadow economy. \n\n\n\nJack Kelly\, a veteran US Drug Enforcement Administration agent\, tasked with following a trail of dirty money across continents from a top-secret investigative unit based in Virginia. \n\n\n\nSalvatore Pititto is an ambitious Mafia capo working on a vast cocaine shipment who becomes unexpectedly pulled into an arms-smuggling conspiracy. \n\n\n\nMustafa Badreddine is a ghost-like master terrorist wanted by governments across the world who has been secretly dispatched to Syria for his final mission. \n\n\n\nEach man\, born in radically different circumstances in the 1960s\, is in his own way grappling with the powerful and unstoppable forces that shape the world around us; forces which topple governments\, send refugees fleeing across borders\, and put guns in the hands of mercenaries and militias. Each has devoted his whole life to an institution-the DEA\, the Mafia and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah-and each will eventually be destroyed or betrayed by the thing they believe in the most. \n\n\n\nSet during 2015 and 2016\, as the global order began to implode under the pressures of the Syrian civil war and the European refugee crisis\, CHASING SHADOWS looks back over the historical conflicts\, events and personal histories that have shaped the lives of these three men. It’s a book that shows the betrayals\, the disillusionment and the violence as Jack Kelly hunts down his targets. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (student)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/miles-johnson-chasing-shadows/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Anna Murphy – Destination Fabulous
DESCRIPTION:From the Fashion Director of The Times comes a wise\, inspiring and invigorating guide to making the most of life as a grown-up woman – from the practical (how to dress your best) to the existential (how to feel your best). \n\n\n\nAt 50\, Anna Murphy feels more visible than at any point in her life to date. Her new book\, Destination Fabulous\, is the toolkit you need to embrace your age and celebrate the wisdom and inner beauty that comes with it. \n\n\n\nIt’s not about impossible goals. It’s not about running a marathon (unless you want it to be). It’s not about denying the ageing process\, nor attempting to erase its signs. It’s not about letting everything go\, either. It’s about balance. It’s about the possible and the present. And it’s about the future you want.How do you lift and smooth your face naturally? Should you go grey\, and\, if so\, how? How do you deal with menopause? \n\n\n\nAnna combines her knowledge from years of writing about fashion and beauty with her openness to the alternative ways of thinking found in disciplines such as yoga and Chinese medicine. For her natural is always best. \n\n\n\nAs a leading fashion editor\, Anna knows that clothing can be the ultimate route into surfacing the true you. She shares all her tricks for finding your way to a wardrobe that will transform not just the way you look but the way you feel. And she shares the highlights of her conversations over the years with super-stylish agers such as Iris Apfel and Miuccia Prada. \n\n\n\nHow have they got it right? \n\n\n\nDrawing on the wisdom of writers as diverse as Pema Chodron and Eckhart Tolle\, Dorothy Rowe and Osho\, Nora Ephron and Mary Oliver\, she writes about saying goodbye to what doesn’t serve you and welcoming what does; about forging relationships that work for you as well as others; and about finding your purpose\, whether in your personal or professional life. Discover how the bumps on her road havehelped her find her way to her true path. Her hope is that this book will help you to find yours\, too.As Fashion Director of The Times\, it goes without saying that Anna Murphy is passionate about what we wear. The author of How Not to Wear Black believes strongly that the supposedly superficial act of choosing what to put on every morning can have a profound impact not just on how we look\, but how we feel. Her years of writing and research\, plus her own life experience\, have also opened Anna upto fresh thinking around beauty\, diet and exercise\, and – overarching all of it – the best ways to live a life that is contented and fulfilled\, especially as you grow old. \n\n\n\nAnna Murphy joined The Times as fashion director in 2015\, having been the launch editor of Stella at The Sunday Telegraph. She has interviewed the industry’s biggest names and done everything from wearing a frock made of bin bags to attempting the Angelina leg pop. \n\n\n\nAnna Murphy will be in conversation with Lulu Taylor \n\n\n\nSponsored by Domvs \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (student)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/anna-murphy-destination-fabulous/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Edward Stourton – Confessions
DESCRIPTION:The son of ex-pat parents in colonial Nigeria\, Edward Stourton was sent back to Britain to be educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth\, at the time when\, it was later revealed\, the school and monastery were the setting for serial abuse cases. He then went up to Cambridge\, where his life as an undergraduate gave him access to a network of future ministers\, judges and newspaper editors. As a young journalist\, he reported first from party conferences and picket lines and then from war zones\, witnessing the events making international headlines\, from Haiti to Hong Kong\, before returning home to join the infighting on BBC Radio 4’s Today. \n\n\n\nDuring this time\, the Empire has given way to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement\, men-only clubs have been replaced by Me Too\, and instead of a choice selection of voices on a handful of radio and television channels\, we have millions of voices on YouTube\, Instagram\, TikTok.The world has changed\, and so has Ed. Brought face to face with the author of his obituary and his own inevitable mortality\, Ed is prompted to reflect on the life he has led and the events that have shaped him. \n\n\n\nIn Confessions\, he describes this remarkable journey with candour\, humour and the insight that only forty years’ experience of writing and reporting can provide. \n\n\n\nEdward Stourton has worked in broadcasting for over forty years\, and regularly presents BBC Radio Four programmes such as The World at One\, The World This Weekend\, Sunday and Analysis. He has been a foreign correspondent for Channel Four\, ITN and the BBC and for ten years he was one of the main presenters of the Today programme. \n\n\n\nEdward Stourton will be in conversation with Kate Adie. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (student)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/ed-stourton-confessions/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Adam Sisman – The Secret Life of John Le Carré
DESCRIPTION:Adam Sisman’s biography of John le Carré\, published in 2015\, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage\, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy – cover stories\, cut-outs and dead letter boxes. These clandestine operations brought an element of danger to his life\, but they also meant deceiving those closest to him. Small wonder that betrayal became a running theme in his work. \n\n\n\nIn trying to manage his biography\, the novelist engaged in a succession of skirmishes with his biographer. While he could control what Sisman wrote about him in his lifetime\, he accepted that the truth would eventually become known. Following his death in 2020\, what had been withheld can now be revealed. \n\n\n\nAdam Sisman said: ‘There was much that I was obliged to withhold from my biography of John le Carré\, published in 2015 while my subject was very much alive and looking over my shoulder. I came to realise that his turbulent personal life\, which he wanted to keep private in his lifetime\, was key to an understanding of his work. His son Simon urged me to keep a secret annexe for publication after his father’s death. The Secret Life of John le Carré is based on that annexe. It shows how le Carré conducted his affairs like espionage operations\, running women as if they were agents. The tension involved became a necessary drug to his writing. The book illuminates a hidden life of secrecy\, passion and betrayal. In the process it reveals a different John le Carré. Now that he is dead\, we can know him better.’ \n\n\n\nAdam Sisman is the author of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task\, winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography\, and the biographer of John le Carré\, A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Among his other works are two volumes of letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews. \n\n\n\nAdam Sisman will be in conversation with Danny Danziger. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (student)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/adam-sisman-the-secret-life-of-john-le-carre/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Cat Jarman – The Bone Chests
DESCRIPTION:In 1642\, William Waller and his Parliamentarian army came to Winchester with destruction on their minds. They forced entry to the magnificent cathedral that had stood on the site for over 600 years and began to smash things. \n\n\n\nIn the cathedral’s holiest place\, ten beautiful mortuary chests rested as they’d done since the 7th century. In search for treasure\, the soldiers ripped open the lids and when all they found were bones\, they flung them at the great West Window\, destroying the 14th-century-stained glass with its sacred images of the Virgin Mary and St Peter. The desecration was total – blood\, glass\, bayonets\, bones all scattered underfoot. The chests housed the mortal remains of West Saxon kings\, saints and bishops; of Queen Emma of Normandy\, William Rufus\, Harthacnut\, Edmund Ironside and Edward the Confessor. As the soldiers left\, local people picked through the damage\, gathering the glass and hiding the bone chests for safekeeping. \n\n\n\nSix chests remain today – with a jumble of the original bones. In 2014 they were opened for the first time to anthropologists and archaeologist\, photographed and catalogued so that the exact position of each individual item is a matter of record. Since then\, cutting edge science\, including isotope analysis\, carbon dating and DNA analysis has revealed astonishing new insights. In Bone Chests\, bestselling author of River Kings\, Cat Jarman builds on evidence from these bones of the men and women who witnessed and orchestrated the creation of England\, fuelled and fortified by the actions of invading and settling Vikings\, to tell an unforgettable new account of this early period of history. This is Anglo-Saxon history in technicolour\, with an important revisionist take on the role of women. \n\n\n\nDr Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist and field archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age\, Viking women\, and Rapa Nui. She uses forensic techniques like isotope analysis\, carbon dating\, and DNA analysis on human remains to untangle the experiences of past people from broader historical narratives. \n\n\n\nDr Jarman has contributed to numerous TV documentaries as both an on-screen expert and historical consultant\, including programmes for the BBC\, Channel 4\, History\, Discovery\, and more. \n\n\n\nDr Cat Jarman will be in conversation with Allan Mallinson. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (student)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/cat-jarman-the-bone-chests/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Lemn Sissay – Let The Light Pour In
DESCRIPTION:For the past decade\, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming\, witty and full of wonder\, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems\, and a book celebrating this morning practice. ‘How do you do it?’ said night ‘How do you wake up and shine?’ ‘I keep it simple\,’ said light ‘One day at a time.’ \n\n\n\nLemn Sissay OBE is a poet playwright\, memoirist performer and broadcaster. He has read on stage throughout the world\, from The Library of Congress in The United States to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia\, from the Opera House of Dubai to London Palladium.   Lemn was awarded The Pen Pinter Prize in 2019  when his memoir ‘My name Is Why’ reached number one in The Sunday Times bestseller list.  \n\n\n\nLemn was Chancellor of The University of Manchester until 2022 and is now Honorary Chair of Creative Writing. His Landmark Poems in public spaces can be seen throughout Manchester and London at venues such as The Royal Festival Hall as well as at The British Council in Addis Ababa.  \n\n\n\nLemn was the first poet commissioned to write for the London Olympics 2012. He has judged many literary competitions including 2020 Booker Prize\, The Gold Man Booker Awards\, and The National Poetry Competition.  \n\n\n\nLemn was named MBE for services to literature by The Queen in 2014 and in 2021 he received an OBE for services to Literature and Charity. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (student)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/lemn-sissay-let-the-light-pour-in/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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