Festival Literary 2015 - Bridport Literary Festival

Sunday 8th – Sunday 15th November
The Eleventh
BRIDPORT
Literary
Festival
2015
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The Bull Hotel
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The Lyric Theatre
The 11th Bridport Literary Festival
welcomes all those who read books and
love literature.
Last year we celebrated ten years of BridLit with larger audiences
than ever before that came to Bridport to enjoy our eclectic
programme of events. This year we have a line-up of writers of
both fiction and non-fiction who will again help to brighten the
dark days of November. We are including, for the first time, an
exciting event at the Lyric Theatre on Saturday 15 November to
appeal to the very young – Bridlit Little ‘Uns – and we hope that
this will be one of similar events in the years to come.
We are also delighted to announce that The Literary and
Scientific Institute, which is about to be restored in East
Street, is joining with us to host A Very Special Literary Event
on Tuesday 6 October at the Electric Palace at 11.00 am with
Alexander McCall Smith in conversation about his work with
Susannah Simons.
One of the Festival trustees, Deirdre Coates, has started Friends
of the Bridport Literary Festival and we hope devotees of
literature will choose to join in order to enjoy events throughout
the year. We are thrilled that Kate Adie has agreed to be Patron.
Application Form is at the back of this brochure.
The Riverside
Sladers Yard
The Bull Hotel (www.thebullhotel.co.uk) is again the centre
of our activities where talks will take place in the Ballroom
and a specially created menu for the Festival can be enjoyed
in the restaurant. Events will also be based at the fabulous
Electric Palace (www.electricpalace.org.uk) and again at
Sladers Yard Gallery and Café (www.sladersyard.co.uk) and
The Riverside (www.thefishrestaurant-westbay.co.uk) in
West Bay. This year we are also hosting events at the newly
opened luxurious Seaside Boarding House at Burton Bradstock
(www.theseasideboardinghouse.com) with its glorious views
along the dramatic Jurassic Coastline from Lyme Regis
to Portland.
Festival Director:
Tanya Bruce-Lockhart
The Seaside Boarding House
The Team:
Miranda Alexander
Fiona Henderson
Jon Lever
Boris Starling
Patron:
Sir Michael Holroyd CBE
Spencer Butler
Val Hudson
Cath Nickels
Robert Twigger
James Crowden
Sally Laverack
Nick Pitt
Jason Webster
President: Lord Fellowes of West Stafford
Trustees: John Sacher CBE (Chairman), Deirdre Coates,
Antony Hichens, Kate Hobbs, Venetia Ross Skinner
Advance Booking:
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Tuesday
6th October
Special Event
A Very Special Literary Event
Hosted by: The Bridport Literary Festival and The Literary and Scientific Institute
Alexander McCall Smith CBE in conversation with Susannah Simons
Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and popular authors. His career
has been a varied one: for many years he was a Professor of Medical Law and worked at
universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Writing had always been a recreation but with
the publication of his best selling No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, which has sold over twenty
million copies, he has devoted his time to writing fiction. His various series of books have been
translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers worldwide. These include the 44
Scotland Street stories which were first published as a serial novel in The Scotsman; the Isabel
Dalhousie novels also set in Edinburgh; the Von Igelfeld series featuring the lofty professor of
German heritage and Corduroy Mansions recording the adventures of an eccentric group of
characters living in Pimlico. This year sees publication of a new book in each of Alexander’s core
series. Isabel Dalhousie takes to the floor again in The Novel Habits of Happiness; the joyous
and perspicacious Mma Ramotswe solves another mystery in The Woman Who Walked in
Sunshine and the tenth volume of the longest running serial novel in the world: The Revolving
Door of Life is also published in 2015. Alexander is also the author of collections of short stories,
academic works and over thirty books for children. He has received book awards too many to
mention and honorary doctorates from nine universities in Europe and North America and an
award from the President of Botswana for his services through literature to that country. He is
also a founding member of The Really Terrible Orchestra.
There will be much to talk about and much to enjoy.
Time: 11.00 am
Tickets: £12 in advance and £15 on the door
Venue: The Electric Palace
Sponsored by: G
eorge and Carol Eyre
Jean Edwards
Proceeds will go towards fund-raising for the Literary and Scientific Institute
which will be undergoing restoration in 2016 and reopening in 2017. Of a
projected cost of £2.6m, the Bridport Area Development Trust, who own the
building, has already secured £2.4m. There is £140k left to raise and we hope
this event will contribute to the target. www.bridportadt.org.uk
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Remembrance Sunday
Sunday
8th Nov
Event 1
Event 2
Edward Thomas The War in the
West: A New
1878 – 1917
History
Graham Fawcett
“When first I came here, I had hope,
Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat
My heart at the sight of the tall slope
Or grass and yews, as if my feet
Only by scaling its steps of chalk
Would see something no other hill
Ever disclosed……”
wrote Edward Thomas about
moving to a new home in
Kent, in lines which catch
on the wing his wonderful
lyrical voice as a poet of
nature. Encouraged by
Robert Frost, Thomas found
that he could write an
abundant wreath of poems
in the three years before he
died in action in Arras. On
this Remembrance Sunday,
Graham Fawcett reveals the
man, the soldier and the poet.
Time: 12 Noon
Tickets £12/£25*
Venue: Sladers Yard,
West Bay
Sponsored by:
Howard and Prue Davies
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*with light lunch.
Please telephone Sladers Yard
(01308 459511) for reservations.
Volume 1: The Rise and
Fall of Germany
1939 – 1942 Event 3
The Dust That
Falls From
Dreams
Louis de Bernieres
in conversation with
Boris Starling
James Holland
In the brief golden years of
King Edward VII’s reign,
Much of what we think we
Rosie McCosh and her three
know about WWII is steeped
sisters are growing up in an
in myth rather than fact.
eccentric household in Kent,
In this sweeping narrative
with their neighbours the
history, James Holland
Pitt and the Pendennis boys.
deploys research and analysis
Days of childhood adventure
to revise our understanding.
are over shadowed by the
War is fought on three levels
approach of a war that is to
– strategic, tactical and
engulf them all. Challenges
operational. The Allies won
are faced. Opportunities are
the War – both strategically
found and lost. Devastation
and operationally. By
is confronted. Louis de
examining the war on land, in
Bernieres’ magnificent family
the air and on the sea, Holland
saga – inspired by his own
reveals the human drama that
family history – follows the
involved everyone.
lives of a cast of characters as
Time: 3.00 pm
they seek happiness.
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Electric
Palace
Sponsored by:
Charles and Siobhan Blundell
Barry and Islay Mawhinney
Time: 6.30 pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Hotel
– Ballroom
Sponsored by: Sarah Wild
Denotes an Illustrated Talk
Waterloo Day
Monday
9th Nov
Event 4
Event 5
Of Living Valour
Wellington:
The story of the
Soldiers of Waterloo
A Journey through
My Family Barney White-Spunner
Jane Wellesley
Published to coincide with the
200th anniversary of the Battle
of Waterloo, Of Living Valour
is an intimate and gripping
account of the battle, drawing
on extensive unpublished
letters and diaries of ordinary
soldiers and officers who took
part. Ex-Commander of the
British Army, Barney WhiteSpunner tells of the againstthe-odds triumph of Waterloo
won by British soldiers who
believed in what they were
fighting for against a resurgent
Napoleon. This is the story
of some 50,000 soldiers who
lost their lives over three days
in one of the most significant
battles ever fought by a
British Army.
In this highly personal family
memoir, Jane Wellesley, the
first Duke’s great-great-greatgrand-daughter, traces his
legacy and reveals the private
man behind the public figure
whose momentous victory
over Napoleon at Waterloo
continues to resonate. Her
journey through this richly
compelling family history
reaches back to earlier
generations right up to the
present day weaving together
characters, connections and
places which are annotated
with fascinating illustrations.
Time: 11.00 am
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Hotel
– Ballroom
Sponsored by: Jim Bartos
John and Sue Bradbury
Time: 2.30pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Hotel
– Ballroom
Sponsored by: Nick Amor
Event 6
The Eagle in
Splendour
Inside the
Court of Napoleon Philip Mansel
The grandeur and
extravagance of the court of
Napoleon I surpassed even
that of the Sun King. His
palaces at Saint-Cloud and
the Tuileries shimmered
with walls of silk and exotic
treasures gleaned from distant
campaigns; it echoed with
the rustle of jewel encrusted
gowns, the drums of military
marches and the whispers of
courtiers’ intrigues. Philip
Mansel brings to life the
heady world of Napoleon’s
Court: the visual splendour
and rigid hierarchy which
the Emperor, imposed upon
everyone.
Time: 6.30 pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Hotel
– Ballroom
Sponsored by: Tim Clarke
Denotes an Illustrated Talk
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Tuesday
10th Nov
Event 7
On the Wilder
Shores of Love
A Bohemian Life:
Lesley Blanch
Georgia de Chamberet
in conversation with
Philip Mansel
Lesley Blanch was born in
1904 and died at the age of
103 whilst still writing her
memoirs. Her God-daughter,
Georgia de Chamberet, has
put together an illuminating
celebration of this remarkable
woman. She reveals someone
ahead of her time. An
exotic childhood led to a
stellar career in theatre and
magazines. Marriage took her
to Hollywood and from there,
she escaped to travel across
Siberia, Mongolia, Turkey,
Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt –
her adventures bridging the
West and East.
Time: 11.00 am
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Seaside
Boarding
House
Sponsored by:
Diana and Robert Clarke
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Event 8
John le Carre
The Biography
Adam Sisman
in conversation with
Jason Webster
John le Carre is still supreme,
more than half a century
after The Spy Who Came
in from the Cold became
a worldwide bestseller.
From his bleak childhood –
through to his recruitment
by both M15 and M16, to his
emergence as the master of
the espionage novel, Le Carre
has repeatedly quarried his
life for his fiction. Yet little is
known about him. Written
with exclusive access to le
Carre himself, to his private
archive and to the people
closest to him, Adam Sisman
has written a major biography
of one of the most influential
novelists alive today.
Time: 2.30pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Seaside
Boarding
House
Sponsored by:
Hugh and Sue Robinson
Event 9
The Remains Annie Freud
in conversation with
Caroline Montagu
Annie Freud grew up in
London in glamorous Bohemian
circles. The eldest child of
Lucian Freud, grand-daughter
of Jacob Epstein and greatgrand-daughter of Sigmund
Freud she is at the very heart
of a ‘harmonious extended
family’. After graduating from
University, she expressed her
artistic talent as a tapestry
artist and embroiderer – before
finding her literary voice
later in life. Her poems are
essentially autobiographical.
The author of three collections,
Annie’s latest: The Remains
is concerned with what is left
when everything seems broken
or lost and the unexpected
revelation that happens when
things are found again.
Time: 6.30pm
Tickets: £12/£25
Venue: Sladers Yard,
West Bay
*with lunch. Please telephone Sladers Yard
(01308 459511) for reservations.
Denotes an Illustrated Talk
Tuesday
10th Nov
Event 10
George Millar DSO MC,
Croix de Guerre and
Legion d’Honneur
The Literary Dinner is held every year in
memory of George Millar who for 50 years
lived in West Dorset until his death in 2005.
His war memoirs and his books on sailing
are still in print and continue to be enjoyed
by generations of readers of all ages.
The George Millar Literary Dinner
Guest Speaker: Brigid Keenan
When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late
Sixties – a high profile diplomat with an already distinguished career - little idea did she have
of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together. Abandoning the gilt
chairs of the Paris and Milan fashion salons for often eccentric living quarters – including
a large chicken shed in Nepal – Brigid’s account of life as a ‘trailing spouse’ was recorded
in: Diplomatic Baggage her first best selling book about the high highs and low lows of
social survival as the smiling face of the European Union. Her second collection of stories:
Packing Up charts her adventures from Kazakhstan to Trinidad, shuttling between London
and Brussels and organising a literary festival in Palestine along the way.
Brigid Keenan is a sharp observer of the political climate of places where her husband had
Postings as well being a incisive and witty story-teller.
Time: 7.00 pm
Tickets: £40
Venue: The Bull Hotel – Ballroom
Sponsored by: Andrew and Helen Carless
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Wednesday
11th Nov
Event 11
Event 12
The Food of Love Fact or Fiction?
Chronicles
Gill Hornby and Rosie
Book 1 Laura’s Story
Prue Leith in conversation
Millard in conversation
with Sally Laverack
Respected journalists, Gill
with Sally Laverack
Hornby and Rosie Millard,
As a cook, restaurateur, food
talk about their new novels:
writer and businesswoman,
All Together Now and
Prue Leith has played a
The Square and discuss the
key role in the revolution of
merits of writing fiction over
Britain’s eating habits since
fact and how journalism
the Sixties. In 1995, having
has influenced their novel
published twelve cookbooks,
writing and vice versa. Is it
she gave up writing about
easy to juggle the world of
food to concentrate on fiction. fact and fiction? What are
Laura’s Story is the first
the differences? Both new
instalment of an epic multinovels are heart-warming
generational family saga and
evocations of very different
follows the fortunes of the
communities. Gill evokes the
tempestuous and beautiful
harmonies - and the discord
Laura Oliver and Giovanni, an - of small-town provincial
Italian ex-prisoner-of-war and life and Rosie traces the
now humble cook, and their
intricacies of a metropolitan
dream to open a restaurant in existence.
post war London.
Time: 2.30 pm
Time: 11.00 am
Tickets: £10
Tickets: £25 to include a Venue: T
he Bull Hotel
light lunch
– Ballroom
Venue: The Riverside,
West Bay
Sponsored by:
John and Felicity Fairbairn
Ian and Mary Scott
Event 13
Coastlines
The Story
of our Shore Patrick Barkham
Told through a series of
walks beside the sea, Patrick
Barkham illustrates the story
of the beautiful 742 miles
of coastline in England,
Wales and Northern Ireland:
their rocks, plants and
animals; their views, tracks
and history; the people
who have made their lives
within sight of the waves.
Patrick reflects on the long
campaign to protect our
shoreline from tidal erosion
and human damage and
tells fascinating coastal tales
of ancient conquests and
smugglers’ routes, of exotic
migratory birds and bucketand-spade holidays.
Time: 6.30pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Hotel
– Ballroom
Sponsored by:
John and Caroline Sandwich
David and Sue Orr
Denotes an Illustrated Talk 11
Thursday
12th Nov
Event 14
Blue Orchid and
Big Tree
Plant Hunters:
William and Thomas
Lobb and the Victorian
mania for the exotic Sue Shephard
Sue Shephard tells the
fascinating story of two of
England’s most prolific plant
hunters who travelled all over
the world collecting trees and
plants totally unknown to the
Victorians. Cornish born Lobb
brothers, were employed to go
in quest of the unusual and
the exotic and throughout the
19th century explored South
America and North America,
south-east Asia and India
to harvest seeds and plants
which would grow in English
gardens and glasshouses.
Sue Shephard celebrates their
lives and achievements with
a wonderfully illustrated
narrative talk.
Event 15
The Tears of the
Rajas
Harry Mount’s
Odyssey
Ferdinand Mount
Modern Greece is very
much in the forefront of our
consciousness at the moment,
not least because of the political
and economic dramas of the
last twelve months.Harry
Mount has chosen to encourage
us to take a step backwards
into ancient Greece and track
the civilisation at its height.
Architecture, art, sculpture,
economics, mathematics,
science metaphysics, comedy,
tragedy and epic poetry were
all devised and perfected by the
Greeks. The ghost of ancient
Greece still lingers and Harry
Mount gives an illustrated talk
about the route that Odysseus
took to explore its story.
Mutiny, Money and
Marriage in India
1805-1905 Seen through the experiences
of a single Scottish family,
the Lows - ancestors of
Ferdinand Mount - The Tears
of the Rajas is a sweeping
history of the British in India.
For a century the Lows of
Clatto survived siege, debt
and disease from the heat of
Madras to the Afghan snows.
They lived through appalling
atrocities and retaliated with
some of their own. In an
illustrated talk, Ferdinand
Mount brings to life all the
drama, intrigue and disaster
of one family’s strangeness of
existence in the upheaval of
the sub Continent in the 19th
century.
Time: 2.30 pm
Time: 11.00 am
Tickets: £10
Tickets: £10
Venue: T
he Bull Hotel –
Ballroom
Venue: The Bull Hotel –
Ballroom
Sponsored by: Trish Reed
Sponsored by: Georgia Langton
Cato Strategic Limited
Event 16
Ancient Greece
in the Footsteps of
Odysseus Time: 6.30 pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Hotel –
Ballroom
Sponsored by:
Francesca Radcliffe
Harold Carter and Tess Silkstone
Denotes an Illustrated Talk 13
Friday 13th
November
Event 17
The Shepherd’s Life
A Tale of the Lake District James Rebanks introduced by James Crowden
Some people’s lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks’ isn’t. The first son
of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived
and worked in and around the Lake District for generations.
Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the demands of land and livestock.
James’s modern dispatches from an ancient landscape – he has 40,000 Twitter followers
- tell the story of a deep-rooted attachment to place, describing a way of life that is
little noticed and yet has profoundly shaped history. In spite of a brief sortie in his
mid twenties into the academic world – he graduated from Oxford with a first class
degree – James is determined to remain forever part of the farming community that has
sustained his family for over 600 years, caring for his flock of Herdwick sheep which,
like himself, is the tough breed of mountain sheep synonymous with the Lake District.
Time: 11.00 am
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Electric Palace
Sponsored by: John and Felicity Fairbairn
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Denotes an Illustrated Talk
Friday 13th
November
Event 18
Writers’ Working
Workshop
Robert Twigger and Jason Webster
Superstitious? Make Friday 13th your lucky
day and learn all you need to know to get
started writing your novel or non-fiction
work. Highly acclaimed crime writer
and historian Jason Webster and awardwinning memoirist and travel author
Robert Twigger answer all those questions
you’ve always wanted answering: how do
I get started? Do I need an agent? How do
I get one? How many words a day should
I write? How do I make a story work? Is it
ok to make things up in a memoir? What
exercises will improve my writing? For
those interested in fiction, we’ll set you
a flash fiction (250 word story) challenge
starting with: “When I discovered it was
Friday 13th I laughed…” For those with nonfiction interest, we will provide our secret
technique for generating brilliant prose out
of a simple idea.
Sign up for for two 45 minute sessions of
instruction, questions and feedback with a
15 minute respite in the middle to recover!
Time: 2.30 pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Hayloft Bar of The
Stables (behind The Bull
Hotel)
Event 19
More Lives Than One:
The Extraordinary Life of
Felix Dennis
Fergus Byrne in conversation
with Paul Lashmar
Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by
turns, Felix Dennis was a true polymath whose
astonishing story of relative rags to phenomenal
riches is told with insight and sensitivity by
Fergus Byrne, publisher and editorial director of
The Marshwood Vale Magazine. Byrne had regular
access to Dennis and his personal archive for this
authorised biography and got to know him well.
The early rebellious years started with Dennis as a
grammar school drop-out, playing in a rock n’ roll
band and being charged with obscenity relating
to the infamous ‘schoolkids’ issue of the Sixties
underground magazine: Oz. Then he founded
Dennis Publishing which became a pioneering
publisher of computer, hobbyist and lifestyle
magazines and subsequently the flagship brand
The Week. Dennis survived a self destructive
phase to become an industrious businessman and
generous philanthropist, planting trees, writing
poetry and creating a magnificent home in
Warwickshire where he died in June 2014.
Time: 6.30 pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Electric Palace
Sponsored by: Anonymously
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Saturday
14th Nov
Event 20
BridLit Little’Uns
Kool for Kids
The Lyric Theatre in
Bridport will be alive and
jumping as master storyteller Martin Maudsley,
acclaimed children’s author
and illustrator Charlie Fuge
and guitarist, songwriter and
actor Declan Duffy combine
their multifarious talents
to present a morning of an
enthralling extravaganza
of tall tales, delicious
drawings and magical
music. Recommended for
three-to-seven-year-olds,
but accompanying brothers,
sisters and oldies are
welcome.
0.00 am - 12
1
noon
Tickets: Children FREE Adults £5
Venue: The Lyric
Theatre,
Barrack Street,
Bridport
Time:
Refreshments provided by The Lyric
Box Office Café
The Kenneth Allsop
Memorial Talk
Event 21
New Trinity
Soil, Soul, Society
Satish Kumar
Kenneth
Human aspirations have often
Allsop, was a
been expressed in trinities. Father,
broadcaster,
Son and Holy Spirit inspire the
writer and
Christian vision. Life, liberty and
champion of
pursuit of happiness focused on
conservation
American aspirations. Liberté,
Egalité, Fraternité drove the
and lived near
French Revolution. Mind, Body
Bridport until
and Spirit was at the heart of the
his death
New Age movement.
in 1973.
Now in the age of ecology, Soil,
Soul, Society is a new trinity to
inspire us all to work towards a
holistic world-view. By doing this
we can act to bring environment,
spirituality and humanity
together. A former monk and
long-term peace and environment
activist, Satish Kumar has set
the global agenda for change for
over 50 years. In 1973, he settled
in the UK, taking the post of
editor of Resurgence Magazine and has
been the guiding spirit behind a number
of internationally respected ecological
and educational ventures including the
Schumacher College in South Devon.
Satish has been honoured with several
Doctorates and international Awards and his autobiography:
No Destination, has sold over 50,000 copies.
Time: 11.00 am
Tickets: £12
Venue: The Electric Palace
Sponsored by: Adam Tindall and Carol Hammick
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Part of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to
Common Ground, the West Dorset based environmental arts
charity www.comonground.org.uk
Saturday
14th Nov
Event 22
The Knowledge
How to Rebuild our
World After an Apocalypse Dr. Lewis Dartnell
Whatever the cause, the world as we know it
has gone! What would we do? Living in the
modern world, we have become disconnected
from the basic processes that support our lives,
as well as the beautiful fundamentals of science
that enable us to relearn things for ourselves.
Described by the Sunday Times as ‘the new
thinking book of the year’, The Knowledge is a
journey of discovery – a book which explains
everything you need to know about everything.
It is a blueprint for rebooting civilisation – it
will transform understanding of the world and
help prepare us for when its no longer here. Dr.
Lewis Darnell is a UK Space Agency research
fellow at the University of Leicester, in the field
of astrobiology and the search for signs of life on
Mars and has won several awards for his science
writing. His previous books include: Life in the
Universe: A Beginner’s Guide and he broadcasts
regularly on radio and television.
Time: 2.30 pm
Tickets: £12
Venue: The Electric Palace
Sponsored by: Denhay Farms Limited
Part of the proceeds from ticket sales will be
donated to The Literary and Scientific Institute.
www.bridportadt.org.uk
Denotes an Illustrated Talk
Event 23
Where My Heart Used
To Beat
Sebastian Faulks in conversation
with Susannah Simons
Sebastian Faulks is one of the country’s
most distinguished award winning
novelists who came to prominence with
his French trilogy of books: The Girl at
the Lion d’Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray.
He went on to write: A Fatal Englishman,
a triple biography of three extraordinary
and exceptional men; Engleby set against
his time spent at Cambridge University
and A Week in December – London in 2007
confronting the banking crisis. Sebastian
was also commissioned to write a James
Bond novel Devil May Care and a joyful
tribute to PG Wodehouse Jeeves and the
Wedding Bells. His latest novel Where
My Heart Used To Beat brings together
recurring themes, casting a long baleful
light over the century we have just left
behind but may never fully understand – a
novel that asks what it is that makes us
human, makes us think, feel and act as we
do, given the carnage we have witnessed
and inflicted over the last hundred years.
Time: 6.30 pm
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Electric Palace
Sponsored by:
Peter Lee and Sally Inchbald
Adam Tindall and Carol Hammick
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Sunday
15th Nov
Event 24
Margaret Thatcher
The Authorized Biography
Volume II
Charles Moore
Margaret Thatcher was the longestserving Prime Minister of the
twentieth century and one of the most
influential figures of the postwar
era. Volume Two of Charles Moore’s
acclaimed authorized biography
covers the central, triumphal
years of her Premiership, from the
Falklands to the 1987 Election. Based
on unrestricted access to all Lady
Thatcher’s papers, unpublished
interviews with her and all her major
colleagues, this is the definitive
portrait of a towering figure of
our times. Charles Moore joined
the staff of the Daily Telegraph in
1979 and as a political columnist
in the 1980s covered several years
of Mrs. Thatcher’s first and second
governments. Formally, the editor of
the Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph
and the Daily Telegraph, he remains
an incisive columnist.
Time: 11.00 am
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Electric Palace
Sponsored by:
Adam and Nicky Fenwick
Event 25
LiTTLe
MACHiNe
A History of 3000
years of poetry set
to song
Featuring:
singer/guitarist Walter Wray,
multi-instrumentalist,
poet/composer Steve Halliwell
poet/musician Chris Hardy
To bring this year’s Bridlit to a resounding
conclusion, we have invited the brilliant LiTTLe
MACHiNe band to entertain us all with their music
and poetry.
Poems, classic and obscure are given a new voice
in songs crafted by three extraordinarily talented
musicians. Acoustic instruments, strong melodies
and watertight harmonies create songs that draw
upon a thousand years of poetry from the Medieval
to the Metaphysical, the Romantic to the Modern
including Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton,
Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Betjeman, Yeats and Carol
Ann Duffy. LiTTLe MACHiNe will present a history
of poetry in a way which will both make you laugh
and break your heart.
Time: 12 Noon
Tickets: £15/£30*
Venue: Sladers Yard – West Bay
Sponsored by: “soixante”
*with lunch.
Please telephone Sladers Yard
(01308 459511) for reservations.
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Map of
venues
BRIDPORT
Literary
Festival
The
Riverside
Tourist
Information
Centre
SOUTH ST.
Wild &
Homeless
Books
CHANCERY
LANE
GH
HI
CHURCH ST.
BURTON
BRADSTOCK
To
Weymouth
B3
15
7
P
To
Bridport
.
ST
WEST BAY
P
Kitson &
Trotman
Solicitors
The Electric
Palace
B3157
Sladers
Yard
ST
.
The Bull
Hotel
FOLLY MILL LANE
From
Bridport
GE
OR
GE
A35
To
Dorchester
EAST ST. B3162
WEST ST.
B3162
A3066
To A35,
Lyme Regis
Lyric
Theatre
Waterstone’s
A35
P
BARRACK STREET
BRIDPORT
B3157
To
West Bay
SEE INSET MAP
The Seaside
boarding house
CLIF
Advance Booking:
Bridport Tourist Information Centre,
The Town Hall, South Street, Bridport, DT6 3LF
Tel: 01308 424 901
The Bridport Literary Festival
Sunday 8 - Sunday 15 Nov 2015
F RD.
Sponsors and Donors
The Trustees and Festival Director of the Bridport Literary Festival
would like to thank all the Sponsors and Donors, including those
who have given anonymously, for their generosity and enthusiasm
in supporting this year’s Festival. Many thanks to all our Stewards
for their patience and good humour.
Platinum
Lisa Fairtlough
Howard and Deirdre Coates
Antony and Sczerina Hichens
Venetia Ross Skinner
Waterstones
George and Carole Eyre
Kitson & Trotman
John and Buffy Sacher
Gold
Nick Amor
Specsavers
Jennifer Coombs
Dorset Community Foundation
Jean Edwards
Adam and Nicky Fenwick
Jackson-Stops & Staff Bridport
Hugh and Sue Robinson
Adam Tindall and Carol Hammick
Andrew and Helen Carless
Tim Clarke
Denhay Farms Limited
Duke’s Auctioneers
John and Felicity Fairbairn
John and Caryl Hubbard
Francesca Radcliffe
‘Soixante’
Sarah Wild
Silver
Harold Carter and Tess Silkstone
John and Sue Bradbury
Charles and Siobhan Blundell
Cato Strategic Ltd
Georgia Langton
Barry and Islay Mawhinney
Peter Lee and Sally Inchbald
John and Ros Senior
Jim Bartos
Howard and Prue Davies
Johnnie and Sophie Boden
Robert and Diana Clarke
Trish Reed
David and Sue Orr
Ian and Mary Scott
John and Caroline Sandwich
Bronze
Patrick and Lucinda Airy
Anthony and Vallie Barker
Bob and Elizabeth Boas
John Caines
Stewart and Catherine Boyd
Minnie Churchill
Patrick and Jennifer Corbett
Dione Digby
Meg Donovan
Robin and Jeanie Edleston
David and Angela Neuberger
Allan and Rachel James
David and Sylva Marchwood
Sevila Hercolani
Charles and Maggie Ouin
Alan and Anne Peck
John Parker and June Milne
Michael and Angela Rose
Michael and Barbara Fulford Dobson
Brochure cover: Colmers Hill by Marion Taylor
Website: www.dorsetpaintings.co.uk
Brochure: Wild Apple Design
Printed by: Creeds
Dates for: 1
2th Bridport Literary Festival
Sunday 6 - Sunday 13 November 2016
Becoming a Friend
of Bridport Literary Festival
The Friends of The Bridport Literary Festival has been formed to bring together all
those who enjoy reading and love literature all the year round.
The Friends Association will give vital support to the Festival organisers to attract
writers of excellence of both fiction and non fiction and encourage them to West
Dorset to talk about their work.
Friends of the Bridport Literary Festival will receive the following benefits:
• An advance copy of the Festival Brochure
• Priority booking of tickets
• Free Postal Booking and no booking fee
• Regular Friends events and gatherings
• An annual Friends’ Party
• A twice yearly newsletter
• An opportunity to get involved
✂
Friends’ Membership starting annually from the 1st January
Annual Individual Membership: £15
Annual Membership for couples at the same address: £25
Name:
Address:
Postcode:
Email:
Please make cheques payable to: The Friends of the Bridport Literary Festival
and send with this completed form to:
The Secretary, Friends of the Bridport Literary Festival, Chideock Manor, Bridport,
Dorset DT6 6LF
Registered Charity No. 1147075
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Waterstones is proud to
support the 2015 Festival.
We look forward to
seeing you there,
for book signings and
a range of titles by
the guest authors.
Waterstones, 21-21A East Street,
Bridport DT6 3JX
Tel 01308 458925
Twitter: @waterstonesbrid
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BRIDPORT
Literary
Festival
2015
Box Office: Bridport Tourist Centre, The Town Hall, South Street, Bridport, DT6 3LF
Tel: 01308 424901