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SUMMARY:Christina Hart Davies and Vanessa Berridge – A Herbal Year and Garden Heaven
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on writers\, storytellers and poets through the centuries\, botanical illustrator Christina Hart-Davies examines the long history of herbal remedies\, how plants have been used for healing and the beliefs that surround them\, including simple recipes for use at home\, in an enchanting\, illustrated guide to the seasonal plants used as herbal remedies over the ages fully illustrated by the author. \n\n\n\nThis is a joint panel event with Vanessa Berridge\, who will discuss her latest book that takes us on a unique tour of thirty of Britain’s most beautiful gardens\, classic and modern. Packed with photographs\, many specially commissioned\, and evocative and entertaining text\, telling the stories of the gardens and the people who created them. The gardens range from legendary romantic gardens like Sissinghurst and Great Dixter to dramatic locations like Bodnant and Overbecks. The book includes information on visiting all the gardens\, and suggestions for the best times of year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hart-Davies is a renowned botanical illustrator and writer. Her watercolours have featured in prestigious collections worldwide and have won many awards\, including six RHS Gold Medals. She has illustrated many books and field guides most notably The Collins Wild Flower Guide\, and is the author of A Wild PLant Year\, The Greenwood Trees and The Whole Story. \n\n\n\nVanessa Berridge is an acclaimed garden writer. She launched The English Garden magazine in 1997\, and her books include The Princess’s Garden: Royal Intrigue and the Untold Story of Kew\, Great British Gardeners and Kiftsgate Court Gardens: Three Generations of Women Gardeners\, which won the 2019 Garden Media Guild’s Garden Book of the Year. \n\n\n\nChristina Hart-Davies and Vanessa Berridge will be in conversation with Paul Atterbury. \n\n\n\nThis event is kindly sponsored by Hall & Woodhouse. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/christina-hart-davis-and-vanessa-berridge-a-herbal-year-and-garden-heaven/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Anne Somerset – Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers
DESCRIPTION:Anne Somerset masterfully traces Victoria’s political evolution\, from headstrong teenager to seasoned octogenarian. This book demonstrates her passionate involvement in state affairs\, and casts fresh light on her relationships with her ten prime ministers. \n\n\n\nVictoria herself acknowledged that when it came to ‘likes and dislikes’ of her prime ministers\, ‘she had them very strongly’. She showed girlish adoration for her first Prime Minister\, the worldly-wise Lord Melbourne\, whose delightful conversation and kindly guidance enchanted her. Later in her reign\, Benjamin Disraeli – who flattered her shamelessly\, tirelessly praising her sagacity and judgement and filling her life with ‘poetry\, romance and chivalry’ – became her favourite. While she developed a powerful bond with several of her Prime Ministers\, in other cases the relationship fell little short of mutual detestation. Victoria’s keenest antipathy was reserved for Disraeli’s great rival\, the Liberal William Gladstone. When he became prime minister for a fourth time at the age of 82\, Victoria declared it ‘a bad joke’ that this ‘dangerous old fanatic’ should be ‘thrust down her throat’. Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers charts the bitter clashes and affectionate interactions Victoria had with her ten premiers in often hilarious detail. Drawing extensively on unpublished sources such as material from the Royal Archives and never-before-seen prime ministerial papers\, it casts a fresh and highly illuminating perspective not just on Victoria\, but on the exceptionally able politicians who served her in government. \n\n\n\nAnne Somerset was born in 1955 and read History at King’s College\, London. Her first book\, ‘The ‘Ladies-in-Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day’\, an acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I in 1991\, then ‘Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I: The Overbury Murder’ in 1998 and ‘The Affair of the Poisons: Murder\, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV’. Her most recent work is Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/anne-somerset-queen-victoria-and-her-prime-ministers/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Scotty Mills – Never Give In
DESCRIPTION:Former Royal Marine\, Major Scotty Mills\, blends personal experiences from his remarkable life with inspirational advice and insights to provide his 12 Commando Rules for Life that could help anyone to do better and reach their targets. \n\n\n\nA sudden downpour while Scotty Mills was walking down a street in South London sent him diving for cover into the nearest shop. It turned out to be a recruitment centre for the Royal Marines and\, after a few minutes’ conversation while waiting for the rain to stop\, Scotty was hooked and signed up to join the elite force. It changed his life and set him in a new direction that would end up with him leading the Marines on operations around the world\, becoming an Olympic flag bearer in 2012 and dining at Buckingham Palace with the Queen and the royal family. Scotty shares his lessons of performance and resilience with the reader\, inviting them into the secrets of elite culture. His compelling story is one that combines tragedy with remarkable insight about the power of human inspiration. Scotty has worked with many of our nation’s top sports teams\, helping them to achieve their goals\, and he shares his methods with his readers\, to guide them to peak performance in all aspects of their life and career.Scotty Mills was born and raised in south London\, joining the Royal Marines in his teens. He went on to become the highest-ranking commissioned black officer in Marines history. During his time in the Marines\, he not only served numerous tours of duty overseas\, but also worked with the England rugby World Cup-winning squad of 2003\, the GB women’s Olympic hockey team and Gareth Southgate’s England football squad. His reputation as an inspirational leader and team builder led to him being described as Gareth’s secret weapon on television. \n\n\n\nThis event is kindly sponsored by Hall & Woodhouse. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/scotty-mills-never-give-in/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Rachel de Thame – A Flower Garden for Pollinators
DESCRIPTION:With bees\, butterflies and other pollinators threatened by climate change and habitat loss\, it’s now more important than ever to support and nurture pollinators in your garden. In this practical and beautiful guide\, expert horticulturalist and regular Gardener’s World presenter Rachel de Thame shows you how to create a garden that provides an abundant resource of plants rich in nectar and pollen.Arranged by season and illustrated with exquisite hand-painted watercolours and glorious photography\, this book provides a captivating look at supporting nature. Whether you have a courtyard garden or a large country garden\, A Flower Garden for Pollinators will tell you what to plant and when in order to attract and sustain a host of pollinators all year round. \n\n\n\nRachel de Thame is a horticulturalist\, broadcaster\, designer and writer. A familiar face on our screens since 1999\, Rachel is perhaps best known for presenting on BBC’s flagship series Gardeners’ World andthe hugely popular series Countrywise for ITV1. Rachel’s passion for plants and gardens emerged in early childhood and is now the cornerstone of a varied career \n\n\n\nRachel de Thame will be in conversation with Mike McCarthy \n\n\n\nThis event is kindly sponsored by Summer Lodge Hotel \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/rachel-de-thame-a-flower-garden-for-pollinators/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Alan Hollinghurst – Our Evenings
DESCRIPTION:Both dark and luminous\, poignant and wickedly funny\, Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel gives us a portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class\, theatre and sexuality\, love and the cruel shock of violence\, from the finest writer of our age. \n\n\n\nDid I have a grievance? Most of us\, without looking far\, could find something that had harmed us\, and oppressed us\, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it\, thought it healthier not to\, though I’d lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice. \n\n\n\nDave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the Hadlows\, the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school where their son Giles is his contemporary. For Dave this weekend\, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters\, will open up heady new possibilities\, even as it exposes him to Giles’s envy and violence. As Our Evenings unfolds over half a century\, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically\, Dave a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination\, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician. \n\n\n\nOur Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student\, his first love affairs\, in London\, and on the road with an experimental theatre company\, and of a late-life affair\, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security; but it is also\, very movingly\, the story of his hard-working widowed mother\, whose own life takes an unexpected new turn after her son leaves home. \n\n\n\nAlan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist\, poet\, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award\, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, and for his novel The Line of Beauty the 2004 Booker Prize. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his six novels since 1988. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/alan-hollinghurst-our-evenings/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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