Adult

Terri Apter – Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations
Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United KingdomOne 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 ... Terri Apter – Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations

Simon Bradley – Bradley’s Railway Guide
Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United KingdomA 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 ... Simon Bradley – Bradley’s Railway Guide

Minette Walters – The Players
Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United KingdomA 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. England, 1685. Decades after ... Minette Walters – The Players

Peter Ross – Upon a White Horse
Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United KingdomBeautiful 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 ... Peter Ross – Upon a White Horse

Damien Lewis – SAS: The Great Train Raid
Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United KingdomSo 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 ... Damien Lewis – SAS: The Great Train Raid

Monica Macias – Black Girl from Pyongyang
The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United KingdomIn 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 ... Monica Macias – Black Girl from Pyongyang

Sonia Purnell – Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power
The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United KingdomBorn 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 ... Sonia Purnell – Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power

Adam Nicolson – Bird School
The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United KingdomClose 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, ... Adam Nicolson – Bird School

Ray Mears – Outdoor Tracking Handbook
The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United KingdomRay 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 ... Ray Mears – Outdoor Tracking Handbook

David Walsh and Pippa York – The Escape: The Tour, The Cyclist and Me
The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United KingdomThe first memoir from one of British cycling’s most enigmatic characters. In the summer of 2020 sportswriter David Walsh asked Pippa York if she’d be his travelling companion for the ... David Walsh and Pippa York – The Escape: The Tour, The Cyclist and Me

Christopher Somerville – Britain’s Best Walks
The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United KingdomChristopoher Somerville has covered the length and breadth of the UK on foot, and has written and broadcast about its history, landscape, wildlife and people for over 25 years. In this extensive new volume, he selects his top 200 routes from his hugely popular Times column, A Good Walk. More than just a basic guidebook, ... Christopher Somerville – Britain’s Best Walks

Helen Carr – Sceptred Isle – A New History of the Fourteenth Century
The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United KingdomIn a thrilling narrative account, Helen Carr sheds new light on a pivotal period of English history in the first book to cover the whole of the fourteenth century in over thirty years. Beginning with the death of Edward I in 1307, and ending with the deposition of Richard II in 1399, Sceptred Isle is ... Helen Carr – Sceptred Isle – A New History of the Fourteenth Century