Book Talks

The theme 'Reading the Land' is an invitation to share in the passion, experience and insight of our authors as we explore the best of nature writing. With much of the last 18 months spent adjusting to new limitations, many of us have explored the lanes and paths closer to home in a bid to […]

This is a small group workshop facilitated by Sue Ashby. Participants need to bring ideas and will enjoy a session aimed at helping them craft historical fiction. The workshop fee includes tea and coffee. The workshop will involve writing activities with the opportunity to share what has been written if comfortable to do so. Please […]

Tristan Gooley, the Natural Navigator, has spent decades hunting for clues and signs in nature all over the world. Each day we pass dozens of small weather signs that reveal what the weather is doing all around us - and what is about to happen. The clues are easy to spot when you know where […]

BENEDICT ALLEN - Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown Thursday 21st April, 7pm, Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne. Part meditation, part memoir, this is an enquiry into the mind of an explorer and what it means to explore in the twenty-first century. Explorer is the story of what led Benedict […]

SBS Silent Warriors, The Authorised Wartime History Saul David is a Sunday Times bestselling military historian, novelist, and broadcaster. This is the first authorised history of Britain’s SBS or Special Boat Service - the world’s first maritime special operations unit. Written with the full cooperation of the modern SBS – the first time this ultra-secretive […]

First Casualty: the untold story of the Battle that began the War in Afghanistan. Bestselling and Orwell Prize-winning author of Dead Men Risen, Toby Harnden will be telling the gripping and incredible story of the six-day battle that began the war in Afghanistan and how it set the scene for twenty years of conflict. It […]

Heidi Perks is a Bournemouth-based bestselling author of four novels and will be talking about her latest impossible-to-put-down thriller, The Whispers. Heidi’s debut novel, Now You See Her, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick which twice reached the Sunday Times bestseller list and has also been optioned for TV from the production company […]

A literary afternoon tea. Bestselling author Sally Page will be in discussion with Matt Billingsley at The Stur of the Moment. Afternoon tea is included. Gillingham author Sally Page's debut novel, The Keeper of Stories, has been described as the most charming and uplifting novel you will read this year. In her debut novel, The […]

At a literary lunch, special guest Minette Walters will talk about The Swift and the Harrier, her historical novel on the horrors of the Civil War in Dorset, and will be in conversation with Donald Nordberg. The Swift and the Harrier is a sweeping tale of adventure and loss, sacrifice and love, with a unique […]

Karen Dickson discusses her bestselling books and historical romance writing. Karen Dickson lives in Dorset and used to work at her local branch of WHSmith, where she was fondly known as The Book Lady. Karen is the author of three novels and the third, A Songbird in Wartime, was shortlisted for an award by the […]

Best-selling novelist and screenwriter Natasha Solomons will be discussing her dazzling new novel, I, Mona Lisa, with Sherborne novelist Lulu Taylor. This is a great opportunity to hear Natasha reveal how she came to write this wonderful book and the research she carried out to bring the Mona Lisa to life. “You’ve seen my smile, […]