Literature
Lalage Snow My Family and other Seedlings
SATURDAY 5 JULY 2.30pm
From foreign correspondent to Dorset allotment enthusiast
Trevor Ware Arctic Genius: Sir William Edward Parry, The Original Arctic Explorer
TUESDAY 1 JULY 2.30am
Trevor Ware has written a fascinating account of the early Arctic Explorer Sir William Parry
Alison Weir – Henry VIII, The Heart and the Crown
In grand royal palaces, Prince Harry grows up dreaming of knights and chivalry – and the golden age of kings … Read more
Tom Fort – Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is a charming and poignant celebration of a quintessential cornerstone of village life – the … Read more
Stephen Moss, Ten Birds that Changed the World
Buy Tickets For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for … Read more
Sue Stuart-Smith – The Well Gardened Mind. In conversation with Simon Tiffin
Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of The Well Gardened Mind, Sunday Times gardening book of the year. … Read more
Hannah Rose Woods – Rule, Nostalgia
Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn’t what it used to be… Longing to go back … Read more
Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground – Great Big Beaminster Book Club
Let’s all read this wonderful book, Unsettled Ground by Clair Fuller, winner of the Costa Novel Award 2021 and shortlisted … Read more
Brian Jackman – West with the Light
WEST WITH THE LIGHT is the heart-warming story of how one of Britain’s most distinguished travel writers survived the Blitz and … Read more
Gill Hornby – Godmersham Park
From the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Miss Austen, which was picked as one of the best novels of … Read more