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Rachel McLean is an award-winning crime author who writes UK- based police procedurals. She is best known for the DI Zoe Finch series set in her home city of Birmingham, as well as the Dorset Crime series. Book 1 in the Dorset Crime series, The Corfe Castle Murders, won the Kindle Storyteller Award 2021 As […]
Thomas Hardy was not only a brilliant writer and poet, but also a talented fiddle player. This is the story of his music, his instruments and the characters he created, many of whom were involved in traditional song, music or dance. With poems, songs and readings by Bonny Sartin of The Yetties. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-musical-heritage-of-thomas-hardy-tickets-301824413947
Professor Angelique Richardson and Dr Cath Sawyer discuss their work with the University of Exeter’s Hardy's Correspondents project. This presentation will introduce the University of Exeter’s Hardy's Correspondents project, a digital humanities collaboration with Dorset Museum, and look at ways in which the letters Hardy wrote, received, and respondd to, shed light on his many-sidedness, […]
Christopher Nicholson is the author of several highly-praised works of fiction, including ‘The Elephant Keeper’, which was short-listed for the Costa Novel Prize, and ‘Winter’, a study of Thomas Hardy in old age. ‘Winter’ was described by the Times as ‘pitch-perfect….shrouded in ice, fog and the dark shadows of the trees that tower over Max […]
“William Barnes, Robert Young and the Spirit of Stur” David Fox shares insights into the past of the town and Vale life as depicted in the poetry and writings of William Barnes (1801-86) and Robert Young (1811-1908). Both were Sturminster-born and David puts this into the context of local history. Young witnessed local celebrations of […]
Have you read ‘A Red Haze’ - the first of my Dorset-based trilogy starting in the 1946 post-war period? In the book, fourteen and a half year old Meg Taylor faces circumstances far beyond her control that forces her into an environment where her future appears to be mapped out for her. Her new life […]
The workshop is aimed at anyone interested in poetry; a love of poetry is essential. I will focus on alliteration and assonance as a means of making our poems vibrant and accessible. Maybe we will work in pairs. All you need is words! Pen and paper or iPad desirable. Sense of fun very welcome ! […]
At the evenings gets colder, Oborne Village Hall has invited author Wolfgang Grulke to warm us up with tales of the tropical South Pacific. Wolfgang is well known for his award-wining books on the subject of his fossil collection that has been visited by many locals. Now, he has turned his attention to the islands […]
A talk by Richard Spencer Foreign correspondent for The Times From Arab Spring to Ukraine Winter Wednesday 12th April 2023 Digby Memorial Church Hall, Sherborne 7:00 for 7:30pm Tickets - £12.50 (inc. a glass of wine) From - Winstone’s Bookshop
Local poet David Caddy will lead a short walk along the North Dorset Trailway and will read poems by Rupert Brooke in the railway carriage at Shillingstone Station. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rupert-brookes-poetry-at-shillingstone-station-tickets-571742726887
Writer Felice Hardy tells the remarkable story of her grandmother, who escaped the Nazis in WW2 Vienna and played tennis at Wimbledon.
A dramatic monologue performed by Rachel Alexander - as Rosalind Fuller - recounts the sisters’ three tours of America between 1911 and 1917. The drama is interspersed with the folk songs she and her sisters sang on farms, in the high class salons of wealthy women and even the White House. This piece, written by […]
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