The Oldie Event – Giles Wood and Mary Killen – Country Life – in conversation with Harry Mount

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

Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways.Mary has happily traded sophisticated ... The Oldie Event – Giles Wood and Mary Killen – Country Life – in conversation with Harry Mount

£6.00 – £12.00

Kate Humble – Where the Hearth Is

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

Kate Humble has a knack for sharing her own journey towards a more pleasing and purposeful life in a way that inspires readers, enables them to reassess their own lives and helps them achieve their personal goals. Having encouraged readers to reconnect with nature in Thinking on My Feet and simplify their lifestyles in A ... Kate Humble – Where the Hearth Is

£6.00 – £12.00

Adam Nicolson – How to Be

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

What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Prize-winning and bestselling writer Adam Nicolson travels through the transforming world of ancient Greece and asks what light its thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions. Sparkling ... Adam Nicolson – How to Be

£6.00 – £12.00

Polly Toynbee and David Walker – The Only Way is Up

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

Political change is coming. But the new Westminster government’s inheritance looks grim. We’re all in it together, the Tories used to say. But they look set to bequeath sharp social divisions, vastly increased inequality, a stagnant economy and unfulfilled commitments on climate change – and all this at a time of unprecedented international tension.The Only ... Polly Toynbee and David Walker – The Only Way is Up

£6.00 – £12.00

Tom Heap – Land Smart

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

We need land for so many of humanity’s growing needs, such as food, renewable energy, carbon storage and housing. Traditionally, we’ve stolen it from nature, but this has led to a mounting toll of extinction and pollution that is now punishing us. So, as there’s no land left to take, how do we get more ... Tom Heap – Land Smart

£6.00 – £12.00

Clare Balding – Isle of Dogs

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

Every dog must have his day.Dogs are never just pets. Not for the British. We love them as members of the family. They work with us, sleep with us, eat with us, help us live our daily lives and come on holiday with us. Some parents will freely admit to enjoying the company of their ... Clare Balding – Isle of Dogs

£20.00

Pam Ayres – Doggedly Onwards: The Collected Poems

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

Pam Ayres has spent a lifetime providing hilarious and profound insights into the delights and tribulations of everyday life. As a young woman in the seminal decade of 1960’s Great Britain, she doggedly pursued a career as a performer and writer, stepping far outside what was expected of her. In doing so she created a ... Pam Ayres – Doggedly Onwards: The Collected Poems

£6.00 – £12.00

Chris Atkins – Time After Time

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

A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons' crisis by the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Bit of a Stretch.British prisoners have to endure the most inhumane and barbaric conditions imaginable, so why do so many of them keep going back?80% of criminals who receive cautions or convictions are reoffenders.46% of ex-prisoners ... Chris Atkins – Time After Time

£6.00 – £12.00

Mick Conefrey – Fallen

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

On 6 June 1924, George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Two days later they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that, they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no ... Mick Conefrey – Fallen

£6.00 – £12.00

Tom Baldwin – Keir Starmer, The Biography

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

This authoritative biography by Tom Baldwin provides answers by drawing deeply on many hours of interviews with the Labour leader himself, as well as unprecedented access to members of his family, his oldest friends and closest colleagues.Together, they tell an unexpectedly intimate story filled with feelings of grief and love that has driven him on ... Tom Baldwin – Keir Starmer, The Biography

£12.00

Michael Mansfield – The Power in the People

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

The internationally renowned human rights barrister shows us how the powerto change the world is in the hands of people, not the people in power.'I want this book to inspire people, give them a blueprint for fighting their own battles, and challenge the status quo. To see that together, we are always stronger. To understand ... Michael Mansfield – The Power in the People

£6.00 – £12.00

Jonathan Dimbleby – Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War

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

June 1944. Operation Bagration: the greatest defeat ever suffered by the German Armed Forces. More than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German adversaries, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa three years earlier. In the ensuing three weeks, Hitler’s Army Group Centre lost 28 of its 32 divisions.While the same month saw the ... Jonathan Dimbleby – Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War

£12.00