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Meg Clothier – The Shipping Forecast

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom

There’s a sea lover in every Brit. The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4 has been keeping people up to date with the latest changes to British weather for a century – seafarers and armchair travellers alike. Since its first broadcast, the programme has captured the hearts and imaginations of this island nation, as well ... Meg Clothier – The Shipping Forecast

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Natasha Solomons – Cleopatra

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom

From the international bestselling author, an unmissable new retelling of the life of one of the most captivating and misrepresented female figures in history. A story of female power and vulnerability, of love and loss, fierce friendship and terrible betrayal. It’s time to meet the real Cleopatra.Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of ... Natasha Solomons – Cleopatra

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Terri Apter – Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom

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 ... Terri Apter – Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations

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Simon Bradley – Bradley’s Railway Guide

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom

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 ... Simon Bradley – Bradley’s Railway Guide

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Minette Walters – The Players

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom

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. England, 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 ... Minette Walters – The Players

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Sonia Purnell – Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power

The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom

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 ... Sonia Purnell – Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power

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