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SUMMARY:Terri Apter – Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations
DESCRIPTION:One in three people over the age of 50 has grandchildren. These grandparents are the first generation to be both psychologically aware and very hands on\, playing an integral role in their grandchildren’s lives. When a child becomes a parent themselves\, existing family structures are radically altered. Old tensions between parents and their adult children may come into sharp relief while new relationships with in-laws must be navigated carefully. \n\n\n\nGrandparenting is the book for grandparenting in the modern age. In this warm\, wise guide to being a modern grandparent\, leading psychologist Terri Apter builds on cutting edge research as well as her own experience of being a grandparent. Drawing on case studies from across the world\, the personal stories of so many different individuals give a real insight into the many problems that can arise in families. With an increase in divorce and in different family configurations\, Apter’s book addresses many of the issues that can arise in more complicated family situations\, exploring the psychological forces that bring generations together and set barriers between them. This innovative book is for grandparents and their adult children to help them become the best grandparents and parents that they can be. \n\n\n\nTerri Apter is a psychologist\, writer and Fellow Emerita of Newnham College. She is the author of many critically acclaimed books on family dynamics\, including Altered Loves: Mothers and Daughters During Adolescence (a NYT Book of the Year)\, and The Confident Child (winner of the Delta Kappa Gamma International Educator’s Prize). Her reviews and articles have appeared in the Guardian\, TLS\, Financial Times\, New York Times Book Review\, and Psychologist and she is a regular blogger for Psychology Today. \n\n\n\nTerri Apter will be in conversation with Dr Helen Thomas. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/terri-apter-grandparenting-on-love-and-relationships-across-generations/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Simon Bradley – Bradley’s Railway Guide
DESCRIPTION:A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825–2025.In 1825 the Stockton & Darlington company strode into history with the opening of the world’s first public steam railway. What the S&DR had pioneered soon picked up speed\, transforming lives and landscapes\, connecting far-flung corners of the nation and creating its own distinctive environments and working worlds. \n\n\n\nThis ambitious and lavishly illustrated volume brings the story of Britain’s railways to life\, spanning two centuries of achievement and change. Full of colour and incident\, it is an exhilarating journey through time and space\, revisiting favourite themes and introducing unfamiliar stories and places. \n\n\n\nSimon Bradley is joint editor of the celebrated Pevsner Architectural Guides\, to which he has contributed a number of notable revised volumes. He started trainspotting aged eleven\, and his interest in railways has broadened and endured. He is also the bestselling author of The Railways: Nation\, Network and People and St Pancras Station. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/simon-bradley-bradleys-railway-guide/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Minette Walters – The Players
DESCRIPTION:A bold and brilliantly inventive historical novel\, set in the reign of James II at a time of rebellion and unrest\, from a 25-million-copy bestselling author. \n\n\n\nEngland\, 1685. Decades after the end of the civil war\, the country is once again divided when Charles II’s illegitimate son\, the Protestant Duke of Monmouth\, arrives in Dorset to incite rebellion against his Catholic uncle.Armed only with pitchforks\, Monmouth’s army is quickly defeated by King James II’s superior forces and charged with high treason. Those found guilty will be hanged\, drawn and quartered.As Dorset braces for carnage\, the redoubtable Lady Jayne Harrier and a small group of trusted allies – including her courageous son and the independent-minded daughter of a local lawyer – contrive ways to save men from the gallows.Compelling and powerful\, The Players is a story of guile\, deceit and compassion during the dark days of The Bloody Assizes. Secrets are kept and surprising friendships formed in a dangerous gamble to thwart a brutal king’s thirst for vengeance… \n\n\n\nMinette Walters is one of the world’s bestselling crime writers and has sold over 25 million copies of her books worldwide. She has won the CWA John Creasey Award\, the Edgar Allan Poe Award in America and two CWA Gold Daggers. The Players is her fourth historical novel. She lives in Dorset with her husband. \n\n\n\nMinette Walters will be in conversation with Lulu Taylor. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/minette-walters-the-players/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Peter Ross – Upon a White Horse
DESCRIPTION:Beautiful and strange\, ancient monuments have long captured our attention and curiosity. We stand in awe before them\, asking who created the Uffington White Horse – and why? What was it like to live in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall? What stories would the towering megaliths of Stonehenge and Avebury tell if they could speak? \n\n\n\nUncovering the enduring mystery of ancient sites\, award-winning writer Peter Ross once again invites readers to sit beside him as he celebrates their influence on art\, culture and society\, explores the way their meaning has evolved over time and simply delights in their magic. \n\n\n\nCombining historical research and archaeological insights with stories from people to whom these sites are particularly important\, Upon A White Horse journeys into the deep past of Britain and Ireland’s ancient landscapes. \n\n\n\nPeter Ross is an Orwell journalism fellow. His writing has appeared in national newspapers and magazines in the UK and US. He won the non-fiction prize at Scotland’s National Book Awards with A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards\, and his most recent book\, Steeple Chasing\, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was selected as Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month. He is also author of the collections Daunderlust and The Passion Of Harry Bingo. He lives in Glasgow. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/peter-ross-upon-a-white-horse/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Damien Lewis – SAS: The Great Train Raid
DESCRIPTION:So secret was this mission\, the SAS seizure of a train to raid deep into enemy territory to liberate a concentration camp\, that it wasn’t until 1968 – twenty-seven years after the formation of the SAS – that a short mention of it was made in the Rover and Wizard annual\, under the headline ‘Who Dares Wins’. No further published record exists. \n\n\n\nBest-selling author Damien Lewis has unearthed the full incredible story from long-hidden files and first hand-testimony\, his latest elite forces narrative delivering a scintillating tale of bravery\, daring and determination which simply beggars belief. This is the SAS at their very finest; there is no other mission like it from the Second World War.Damien Lewis is a number one bestselling author whose books have been translated into over forty languages worldwide. For decades he worked as a war and conflict reporter for the world’s major broadcasters\, reporting from across Africa\, South America\, the Middle and Far East and winning numerous awards. His books include the World War Two classics The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare\, SAS Nazi Hunters\, SAS Ghost Patrol\, SAS Band of Brothers and SAS Forged in Hell. A dozen of his books have been made\, or are being made\, into movies or TV drama series and several have been adapted as plays for the stage. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare has recently been released as a Guy Ritchie movie of the same name. He has raised tens of thousands of pounds for charitable concerns connected with his writings. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/damien-lewis-sas-the-great-train-raid/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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