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Christopher Somerville – Britain’s Best Walks

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

Christopoher 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

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Helen Carr – Sceptred Isle – A New History of the Fourteenth Century

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

In 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

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Chris Chibnall – Death at the White Hart

The Brownsword Hall Pummery Square, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom

The villagers of Fleetcombe like to think of it as one of the most picturesque spots in Dorset: two pubs, a small playground, enough gorgeous cottages to keep a thatcher in business. It’s the last place you’d expect a grisly murder. But a body is discovered, tied to a chair in the middle of a ... Chris Chibnall – Death at the White Hart

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Sir Tony Robinson – The House of Wolf

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

In Rome Father Asser is waiting to die. His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on false charges of heresy, but then salvation arrives in an unexpected form. Cardinal Balotelli also dreams of a better Europe, free from the ravages of the Norlanders. He has an important job for Asser, one that will ... Sir Tony Robinson – The House of Wolf

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The Oldie Event: When Harry met Andrew – Harry Mount in conversation with A N Wilson

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

Harry Mount, the Editor of The Oldie, will be talking to AN Wilson the award winning author of 60 histories, novels and biographies on subjects ranging from Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin and Jesus to John Betjeman, Leo Tolstoy and Adolf Hitler, and one of The Oldie’s regular columnists. His latest book, Goethe: His Faustian Life, reveals ... The Oldie Event: When Harry met Andrew – Harry Mount in conversation with A N Wilson

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Sir Graham Brady – Kingmaker – Secrets, Lies and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers

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

An explosive memoir from the heart of Westminster, lifting the lid on some of the leadership battles that have defined British politics for a decade and a half during the eras of five Conservative prime ministers – Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak. From coalition to Brexit, Covid to Partygate, Trussonomics to the 2024 election, ... Sir Graham Brady – Kingmaker – Secrets, Lies and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers

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Dr Lucy Pollock – The Golden Rule – Lessons in Living

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

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

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Anne Sebba – The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

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

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

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Rev Richard Coles – A Death on Location

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

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

Sarah Vine – How Not To Be a Political Wife

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

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

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John Agard and Philip Nanton – Caribbean Sensations

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

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

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PBFA Dorchester Book Fair

Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom

Independent sellers will be offering antiquarian & second hand books, modern firsts, signed editions, prints, maps and ephemera at the Dorchester book fair, in the stunning Victorian Hall of the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery. Coinciding with the final day of the Dorchester Literary Festival – this is a new addition to a week packed with author talks ... PBFA Dorchester Book Fair