What’s On

Dr Lucy Pollock – The Golden Rule – Lessons in Living

The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester

Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of? What might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? This book contains lessons learned from thirty years of ... Dr Lucy Pollock – The Golden Rule – Lessons in Living

£8.00 – £12.00

Anne Sebba – The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates, forced labourers who left each morning and returned, exhausted and often broken, ... Anne Sebba – The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

£8.00 – £12.00

Rev Richard Coles – A Death on Location

The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester

In the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we’ve come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location. As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a murder interrupts filming on ... Rev Richard Coles – A Death on Location

£29.00

Sarah Vine – How Not To Be a Political Wife

The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester

An unflinching account of life at the heart of politics, and what it's like to have politics rip the heart out of your life. This is a story of high hopes and dirty tricks, broken friendships and divided loyalties, laughter and glamour. Recollections, as a great woman once said, may of course vary, but, Sarah ... Sarah Vine – How Not To Be a Political Wife

£10.00 – £14.00

John Agard and Philip Nanton – Caribbean Sensations

The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester

Join us in a special event of poetry, musicality and conversation to showcase the Caribbean culture that has helped to transform Britain. Featuring the acclaimed poet John Agard who has been a recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and whose poetry has been enjoyed by many generations of the public through the national ... John Agard and Philip Nanton – Caribbean Sensations

£8.00 – £12.00