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SUMMARY:Monica Macias – Black Girl from Pyongyang
DESCRIPTION:In 1979\, aged only seven\, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her father\, the President of Equatorial Guinea\, to be educated under the guardianship of his ally\, Kim Il Sung. \n\n\n\nWithin months\, her father was executed in a military coup led by her cousin (the still reigning leader)\, while her mother became unreachable. Effectively orphaned\, she and two siblings had to make their lifein Pyongyang. At military boarding school\, Monica learned to mix with older children\, speak fluent Korean and handle weapons in training exercises. \n\n\n\nReaching adulthood\, she went in search of her roots. Spending time in Madrid\, Malabo\, New York\, Seoul and finally London\, at every step she had to reckon with others’ perceptions of her and her adoptive homeland. Optimistic yet unflinching\, Monica’s astonishing and unique story challenges us to see the world through different eyes. \n\n\n\nMonica Macias has lived in many countries around the world in search of her identity as a global citizen\, including: Equatorial Guinea\, Pyongyang\, Seoul\, Beijing\, Madrid\, New York City\, and now resides in south London. Black Girl from Pyongyang is her first book to be published in English\, and she will be the subject of a forthcoming documentary film. \n\n\n\nMonica Macias will be in conversation with Lulu Taylor. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/monica-macias-black-girl-from-pyongyang/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Sonia Purnell – Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction\, intrigue and power
DESCRIPTION:Born into an impoverished aristocratic family\, and raised on the family’s Minterne estate near Dorchester\, Pamela Churchill Harriman became Winston Churchill’s daughter-in-law and trusted confidante\, and American ambassador to Paris under Bill Clinton\, one of the most influential women in twentieth century politics\, dismissed by many as the greatest courtesan of the age. Bestselling author Sonia Purnell reclaims Pamela’s legacy and inserts her back into her rightful place in history. Full of sex\, intrigue\, scandal\, glamour and some of the biggest names in the second half of the twentieth century (from Hitler to JFK to Prince Aly Khan\, Jackie Onassis and Elie de Rothschild)\, this is a brilliant record of the power that women could – and couldn’t – wield. Sonia Purnell is a biographer and journalist who has written for the Guardian\, the Daily Telegraph\, and the Sunday Times. Her biography of Virginia Hall\, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall\, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy\, won the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and was a New York Times bestseller. Her book First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill was a book of the year in the Daily Telegraph\, the Independent and shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. Her first book\, Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition\, was longlisted for the Orwell prize. \n\n\n\nSonia Purnell will be in conversation with Allan Mallinson. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/sonia-purnell-kingmaker-pamela-churchill-harrimans-astonishing-life-of-seduction-intrigue-and-power/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Adam Nicolson – Bird School
DESCRIPTION:Close to Adam Nicolson’s home in Sussex\, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds – nightingales\, the occasional cuckoo\, ravens\, robins\, owls and in summer the sweet-singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods. \n\n\n\nAdam Nicolson wanted to look and listen\, to return to ‘bird school’ and see what it might teach him. He built a small shed amongst the trees with nesting boxes and bird feeders. Cocooned inside\, season after season\, he got to know the birds: where they nest\, how they sing\, how they mate and fight\, what preys on them\, what they are like as living things. \n\n\n\nBeautifully written and woven through with philosophy\, literature\, science and a sense of wonder\, always conscious that that this is an age in which the natural world is under siege\, Bird School pulls back thecurtain on seemingly ordinary birds\, taking a long\, careful and concerned look at our relationship with the wild. \n\n\n\nADAM NICOLSON is the prize-winning author of many books on history\, landscape\, and great literature. He is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award\, the W. H. Heinemann Award\, the Ondaatje Prize\, the Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the Richard Jefferies Award. His books include Life Between the Tides and The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters. He lives on a farm in Sussex. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students) \n\n\n\nAdam Nicolson will be in conversation with Mike McCarthy \n\n\n\nThis event is kindly sponsored by Lulworth Estate\, Dorset
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/adam-nicolson-bird-school/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Ray Mears – Outdoor Tracking Handbook
DESCRIPTION:Ray Mears has accumulated his tracking skills over 35 years of practice in the field\, all over the world\, and this book will be the first authoritative but accessible and practical manual. \n\n\n\nAn essential guide for enthusiasts who want to discover the outdoors in a new way\, and read the secret stories of animals and birds in the tracks they leave behind as well as a go-to reference for professionals\, from naturalists to police and military operatives\, the hand book is illustrated with clear instructions\, interlaced with Ray’s own inspiring first-hand experiences. \n\n\n\n In ITV’s landmark 2021 series Wild China\, Ray tracked the rare and elusive snow leopard\, enabling his film crew to capture in groundbreaking new footage. His work with the military and police\, meanwhile\, is often highly confidential. In this book\, he draws deeply from every avenue of an extraordinary life’s work\, and passes on his hard-earned expertise. \n\n\n\nRay Mears has become recognised throughout the world as an authority on the subject of bushcraft and survival. TV series including Ray Mears’ Bushcraft\, Ray Mears’ World of Survival\, Extreme Survival and Ray Mears goes Walkabout have made him a household name over the past two decades\, but he has spent his whole life learning these skills\, and founded Woodlore School of Wilderness Bushcraft over 35 years ago. He lives in Sussex with his family. \n\n\n\nRay Mears will be in conversation with Jenny Devitt. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/ray-mears-outdoor-tracking-handbook/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:David Walsh and Pippa York – The Escape: The Tour\, The Cyclist and Me
DESCRIPTION:The first memoir from one of British cycling’s most enigmatic characters. \n\n\n\nIn the summer of 2020 sportswriter David Walsh asked Pippa York if she’d be his travelling companion for the Tour de France. The deal was that he would sort out the logistics beforehand\, the hotels\, the transport details and she would do the day-to-day tasks of getting them about and adding her insight occasionally. It would also mean she would return to the race she had ridden eleven times as Robert Millar. \n\n\n\nThis is the resulting book: a unique and entertaining sporting odyssey\, using the minutiae of Pippa and David’s trip\, and the iconic landmarks of the Tour de France\, to explore her early life growing up in working class Glasgow; her entry into racing; the psychological aspects of the sport and how that manifested itself in her personality; her ups and downs as a competitor; her post-career and her eventual transition from male to female in her 40s. \n\n\n\nTouching on doping\, gender in sport and the unique wonders and day-to-day challenges of the Tour\, The Escape is both an unforgettable travelogue through the world’s greatest cycling event and a one-of-a-kind memoir from arguably the sport’s most enigmatic and fascinating competitors. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/david-walsh-and-pippa-york-the-escape-the-tour-the-cyclist-and-me/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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