At this year’s Dorchester Literary Festival you have the chance to enjoy listening to a wonderful array of best-selling authors talking about their latest books: Robert Harris will discuss Act of Oblivion – a gripping novel about one of history’s greatest
manhunts; you can also enjoy Max Hastings on Abyss, the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Ben Macintyre on Colditz.

Celebrate the life of our Queen with eminent royal commentator, Robert Hardman, or delve into the extraordinary life of Crimean nurse, Mary Seacole, with Helen Rappaport. Discover Miss Dior’s significance with Justine Picardie and Josephine Baker’s life in espionage with Damien Lewis. Learn about Marine Commandos from Monty Halls; discover The Celts with Simon Jenkins or enjoy James Hamilton’s eye-opening account of the artist John Constable.

Author Robert Harris

We are also featuring a range of memoirs that illuminate surprising lives: Antiques Roadshow expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan reveals his life story, as does Keith Brymer Jones of The Great Pottery Throw-down; Norman Scott, once at the centre of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal, and Jackie Malton, the DCI whose life provided the inspiration for Lynda La Plante’s Prime Suspect.

Highlighting the world of nature and animals is Bushcraft and survival legend Ray Mears, who will teach us how to reconnect with the wild with We Are Nature; Dave Goulson explains the world of insects in Silent Earth; Tim Birkhead shines a light on man’s relationship with birds in Birds and Us, while Dogfather Graeme Hall gives sage advice on how best to look after a new family friend in Perfectly Imperfect Puppy.

For would be writers there’s an afternoon of seminars to help; Sophie Hannah will provide a Writing Master Class and Rebecca Lee will talk you though the publishing process in How Words Get Good.

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