Raleigh Hall
Castleton Church
Castle Gardens
Weekend Break Packages Make The Perfect Getaway! Treat yourself to an overnight stay or even the whole five days at the Sherborne Literary Festival. Sherborne is a delightful market town with lots of unique and individual shops as well as a superb Abbey and not one but two castles! We can help you find suitable accommodation in the area and recommend places to eat and visit while here. Just contact us via our website www.SherborneLiterarySociety.com
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Welcome Welcome This is our third Literary Festival and once more we have a very strong line-up of well-known, successful authors coming to Sherborne. Starting with the gardening guru James Wong (who captured the nation’s imagination with his TV programme, Grow Your Own Drugs) on the Wednesday morning and finishing with the brilliant raconteur, Gyles Brandreth on the Sunday night, the rest of the time is packed with memorable events. There are biographers, historians, travel writers, novelists, explorers, poets, an expert on antiques, and even a former Member of Parliament. You do not need ever to have read a book to enjoy these events. Those taking part are invited because they are such good speakers, some having the audience almost falling off their chairs with laughter, and other just making you think. They talk about their lives, the embarrassing things that happen, how they write and research their books as well as the things they discover but do not, or dare not, include! Afterwards you may well be tempted to buy their latest books which will be available at the event. We have more events for children this year and we are delighted that our local schools are taking part in the Festival. The main venue for young people’s events will be The Gryphon School, but there will also be workshops at Sherborne Prep and Sherborne Primary will host James Wong. There will be a performance poet holding workshops, a student ambassador talking about taking English beyond school and a popular writer of teenage fiction talking about her work. These events are only for the school children and adults are not invited. Diana Cambridge is once again our experienced Writer-in-Residence and she has also agreed to run a creative writing workshop for adults as well as holding her drop-in writing clinic that proved so popular last year. We are re-opening our Literary Café at the Digby Hall for snacks and light meals and there will be more Poems in a Pub with a Pint. We hope that visitors will spend some time between events to explore our impressive little town and browse among our many independent shops and boutiques. We have a fine choice of places to eat and drink and we have listed some that we recommend in this programme. There is plenty of parking (free on Sundays), trains and buses and many helpful people to give directions. Tickets, as usual, are available from the Tourist Information Centre or from our website www.SherborneLiterarySociety.com Come and enjoy five days of Sherborne at its best!
Judith Spelman Festival Director
Sherborne Literary Society Committee Chairman (Acting)
Mark Greenstock
Events Co-ordinator
Sue Adams
Competitions and Schools Liaison
Lucy Beney
Poetry Advisor Consultant to Committee and Festival
Treasurer
Valerie Todd
Marketing Manager Franchesca Dening Special Projects
Shirley Hewson
Jan Pain
Poetry Consultant
James Crowden
Hugh Prysor-Jones
Minutes Secretary
Debbie Newman
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Every Day... Every Day... Diana Cambridge Diana Cambridge, our Writer-inResidence, can be found at the Digby Hall helping new writers to get started or those who have hit a tricky part in their work to talk it through. As many writers will know, Diana is the agony aunt of Writing Magazine and a publisher. She is an award winning journalist, a former managing editor of several magazines and an author of three how-to books on writing as well as running group and personal writing workshops. She specialises in one-to-one critiques and coaching. Writers can email up to 2,000 words of their work to reach Diana by 6 October. She will provide a written critique and a 15-minute pre-booked consultation. You can always bring your work and ideas to her drop-in writing clinic and have a 15minute chat between events. It will cost you £5.00 at the door – probably the best £5.00 a writer can spend! Writers who attended Diana’s clinic last year are more than welcome this year for top-up advice. Diana’s website: www.dianacambridge.co.uk Diana’s email: diana@dianacambridge.co.uk Diana will be running a Writing Workshop – see Saturday 18 October for details
The Official Bookseller to the Sherborne Literary Festival is
Winstone’s of 8 Cheap Street, Sherborne
01935 816128
Festival Café Our Festival Café is open during Festival hours serving tea and coffee as well as snacks and light lunches. Come and meet your friends and maybe bump into an author! In 2013 we opened the Festival Café for the first time and found it was the perfect place for people to drop in for a quick drink or a snack and meet their friends before or after an event. We keep the menu simple but wholesome. Do try our homemade soup with rolls baked locally. It’s a good way to warm-up if you have been outside in the chilly October air. We make sandwiches to order and can offer a variety of fillings or we serve our own Ploughman’s Platter with cheese or pate. As for our cakes… Again these are home-baked and, although we say it ourselves, absolutely delicious! A steaming cup of coffee and a slice of freshly baked cake in a friendly environment – bliss! And don’t forget we can offer a glass of red or white wine at a very reasonable price. We are aware that some people are following special diets so vegetarians and those on glutenfree diets are welcome and we will do our best to look after you.
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Wednesday
Wednesday 15 October
Event 1
James Wong
£12.50
Digby Hall, Hound Street 11.30am – 12.30pm James Wong is a garden designer and TV presenter best known for his award-winning television programme, Grow Your Own Drugs. He has taken part in Radio 4’s Gardener’s Question Time and the BBC1 television programme, Countryfile. This year he was one of the commentators at the Chelsea Flower
Gardener’s Day
Show. Trained at Kew he describes himself as an ethnobotanist, a BBC science presenter and an obsessive foodie grower – fascinated by all things plant-related. His enthusiasm is catching and even the most unlikely gardener will suddenly discover how easy it is to grow herbs and vegetables. Homegrown Revolution! The Great Sow-a-Long is his latest book explaining how to grow incredible edibles in any British back-garden. (James will be talking to children at Sherborne Primary School this afternoon and taking part in our Gardeners’ Question Time this evening).
Event 2
Poems in a Pub with a Pint
Free*
The Digby Tap 3.00pm – 5.00pm Come along and join James Crowden in a relaxed hour of poetry. Bring a poem of your own to read or one you especially like and enjoy a pint or a glass of wine.
Event 3
Helen Yemm
£8.50
Digby Hall, Hound Street 3.30pm – 4.30pm
GARDENER’S DAY Sponsored by Castle Gardens Group
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Helen describes herself as a passionate muddygloves-and-wellies gardener blessed with the gift of the gab. She presents Gardening from Scratch on BBC2 and a BBC daytime
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Wednesday 15 October programme, Gardening Week. For the past 15 years she has instructed and entertained Daily Telegraph readers with her regular, weekly column, Thorny Problems. Her book of the same name, published in 2011, is a seasonal selection from the hundreds of letters she has received and answered over the years. She has twice been a finalist for the award of Gardening Columnist of the Year and she lectures regularly at Coton Manor Gardening School in Northamptonshire. Helen’s books include Gardening in Your Nightie, Gardening in Pyjamas and RHS Grow Your Own Flowers. Her latest book is More Thorny Problems.
Event 4
Gardener’s Day Gardeners’ Question Time
£5.00
Digby Hall, Hound Street 7.30pm – 8.30pm All your gardening problems solved by our panel of experts! Chaired by Peter Neal, Chairman of Sherborne and District Gardeners’ Association, James Wong and Helen Yemm are joined by Mike Burks, managing director of The Gardens Group and Pam Lewis, owner and creator of Sticky Wicket, a ‘natural’ five-acre plot and author of several books including Gardening in Tune with Nature . If you would like to ask a question, please pass it on to the Tourist Information Centre in Sherborne with your name and telephone number. Or see our website www.SherborneLiterarySociety.com . We will contact you if your question is chosen by Monday 13 October. A ticket for all three events today will cost £23 including £2.00 to use against any book bought at one of the events in exchange for your ticket. There is a discount for groups of 6 or more. Tickets are available from Castle Gardens, Sherborne as well as the Tourist Information Centre in Digby Road, Sherborne and from our website: www.SherborneLiterarySociety.com
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Thursday 16 October Thursday Event 5
Victoria Glendinning
£8.50
Digby Hall, Hound street 11.30am – 12.30pm Victoria Glendinning, CBE, is a highlyrespected biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. A winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize she has written sixteen books including biographies of such widely differing people as Edith Sitwell, Anthony Trollope, Leonard Woolf, Vita Sackville West and Jonathan Swift. She is an Honorary Vice President of English PEN and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1998 she was awarded a CBE. Her latest book is Raffles and the Golden Opportunity. ‘Glendinning has a great gift for a story and a fine feeling for character’ The Times
Event 6
Ann Widdecombe
£8.50
Digby Hall, Hound Street 3.30pm – 4.30pm Ann Widdecombe, DSG is a former Conservative Member of Parliament for Maidstone (19871997) and Maidstone and The Weald (19972010). Since then she is rarely out of the public eye. In 2002 she took part in an ITV programme, Celebrity Fit Club and two years later, became the Guardian’s agony aunt and appeared twice as a guest host on Have I Got News for You. Perhaps she is best known for 8
her 2010 appearance on Strictly Come Dancing, partnered by Anton du Beke, where she appeared for nine weeks before being eliminated. In 2012 she presented an hourlong documentary, Drunk Again: Ann Widdecombe Investigates, on BBC Radio 5 Live and in the same year she hosted an episode of Songs of Praise. Her first novel, The Clematis Tree, was published in 2000 and since then she has written a further four novels and an autobiography, Strictly Ann which she has described as ‘…rude about all and sundry, but an amount of truth is always necessary.’ Her latest book is The Dancing Detective.
EVENT 6 Sponsored by Robin James
Thursday 16 October Thursday Event 7
Film of Ivor Gurney, £5.00 WW1 poet and composer Raleigh Hall, Digby Road 5.00pm – 6.00pm
Severn and Somme, by Anthea Page and Diana Taylor of Redcliffe films. is a short but very moving film showing the life of the World War 1 composer and poet, Ivor Gurney. It is beautifully filmed and the images of the Gloucestershire countryside are stunning and Gurney’s life is portrayed very sensitively. He was composing music aged 14 and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1911 where he studied with Charles Villiers Stanford. He is
said to have had a dynamic personality but suffered mood swings and had his first breakdown in 1913. He enlisted as a private soldier in the Gloucestershire Regiment in February 1915 and then began writing poetry seriously. He was wounded and gassed and discharged from the army. After the war he was considered one of the most promising composers of his generation but gradually slid into depths of depression and mental instability. The script is peppered with his poems, which bring to life his ongoing suffering after what he witnessed, and the sad loss of his friend, Edward Thomas. He is considered one of the great World War 1 poets.
Event 8
Paul Atterbury
£8.50
Digby Hall, Hound Street 7.30pm – 8.30pm Keen antique collectors will know Paul Atterbury from his regular appearances on BBC 1’s Antiques’ Roadshow. He is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster specialising in the art, architecture, design and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He has written many books on art and antiques, ceramics, travel, canals and railways – another of his passions. His new book, World War One in 100 Family Treasures, brings together a long held interest in the First World War and a fascination with family history. It grew from the Antiques Roadshow’s special programmes on the First World War and the stories he has uncovered are moving and inspiring. 9
Friday 17 October Friday Event 9
Rachel Joyce in conversation with Lucy Beney
£8.50
Digby Hall, Hound Street 11.30am – 12.30am Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and for which she gained the Specsavers National Book Awards New Writer of the Year 2013 award. She has written over twenty original afternoon plays for BBC Radio 4, and adapted classic serials and books for Woman’s Hour, as well as a TV period drama for BBC 2. In 2007 she won the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Play.
Event 10 Harry Bucknall
£8.50
Digby Hall, Hound Street 3.30pm – 4.30pm In 2012 Harry Bucknall set off from the steps of St Pauls Cathedral to walk 1,400 miles through England, France, Switzerland and Italy to Rome. He was following in the footsteps of pilgrims down the centuries on an ancient route known as the Via Francigena. Harry tells of his journey in LIKE A TRAMP, LIKE A PILGRIM, weaving a historical tapestry liberally coloured with tales of angels 10
and saints, emperors and kings and war and revolution. He uncovers a little known route that leads him through vineyards and villages, towns and cities and over rivers and mountains to the heart of the Eternal City, Saint Peter’s Basilica. It is a joyous journey of Elizabethan proportion filled with anecdote, adventure and mishap as Harry encounters the changing faces of a landscape suffused with history; yet his journey is perhaps most enriched by the extraordinary stories of those he meets - fellow pilgrims and locals alike – along the way.
EVENT 10 Sponsored by Eastbury House
Friday 17 October Friday Event 11 Mark Freestone
£5.00
and Carolyn Corlett Cheap Street Church 5.30pm – 6.30pm In response to popular demand, we have invited actors Mark Freestone and Carolyn Corlett to return to this year’s Festival to give another outstanding performances of poetry. The Great War: Romance and Reality is a miscellany of poems by Robert Graves, Jessica Pope, Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, Rupert Brooke, May Cannan Wedderburn, Siegfried Sassoon, Carol Ann Duffy and others. Carolyn’s main experience is in theatre, featuring comedy, drama and musicals, both in Bermuda where she lived for 10 years and in the UK. In 2009 she and her husband Derek set up The Flying Mouse with the aim to bring theatre to rural communities. Mark studied speech and drama at the University of Natal in South Africa, moving to the UK after obtaining his honours degree. Since emigrating he has worked in the drama field both as a professional actor, as a workshop leader with various youth theatre groups around the country and as a teacher at two Sherborne schools.
Event 12 Helen Rappaport
£8.50
Digby Hall, Hound Street 7.30 – 8.30pm Helen Rappaport is a historian specialising in the Victorian era and revolutionary Russia. She became a full-time writer in 1988 and has written a wide range of books including No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War, Ekaterinberg: The Last Days of the Romanovs. Her works cover the story of Lenin, the Victorian cosmetic industry, the death of Prince Albert and the birth of photography. Her latest book, Four Sisters: the Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses, has received wide acclaim. She speaks fluent Russian.
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Saturday 18 October Saturday Event 13 Paul Stickland
Free
Event 14 Film of Ivor Gurney, £5.00 WW1 poet and composer
The Raleigh Hall, Digby Road 11.00am – 12.30pm Paul Stickland, is the illustrator of the hugely popular Dinosaur Roar series of books for children. As a father himself, he understands exactly what intrigues and amuses youngsters and has produced great many hilarious bestselling children’s picture and pop-up books. These include Dinosaur Roar, Ten Terrible Dinosaurs, Big Dig and Truck Jam. Paul has agreed to run one of his popular entertaining pop-up workshops for children (aged 5+), showing them how to use their imagination to make funny little monsters and sharing some of the magic that fills the world of pop up books. www.paulstickland.co.uk
EVENT 13 Sponsored by Arts Link
Date for your Diary Sherborne Literary Festival 2015 Wednesday 14 October to Sunday 18 October 2015
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The Raleigh Hall, Digby Road 1.30pm – 2.30pm See event 7
Event 15 Creative Writing
£20.00
Workshop with Diana Cambridge The Wingfield Room, Digby Hall, Hound Street 2.00pm – 4.00pm Experience Diana’s own successful brand of encouraging people to write. ‘I know how much talent there is in the area,’ says Diana. ‘It’s my belief that lack of confidence, not lack of talent, is the biggest barrier to writing success. Others are the fear of rejection, problems making time to write and actually writing!’ If any of these reasons apply to you, then this is the perfect opportunity to sort them out and Diana is the perfect person to help. Bring a notepad and pen.
Saturday 18 October Saturday Event 16 Lindsey Davis
£8.50
Cheap Street Church 3.30pm – 4.30pm Historical novelist, Lindsey Davis, is probably best known for her 20 novels chronicling the life of Marcus Didius Falco, a rascally, laidback Roman ‘informer’ who investigates crimes on the side. These books became a popular series on BBC Radio 4. In 2013 she began a new series featuring Falco’s adopted daughter, Flavia Albia, once a rebellious teenager and now a feisty widow who is also an investigator. Her standalone novels give her the chance to delve more deeply into
Roman history. As a prelude to the Falco series she wrote what she considers her first important novel, The Course of Honour and this was followed by Master and God and Rebels and Traitors. Lindsey has won many awards for her books. She has served as Honorary President of the Classical Association, Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and Chair of the Society of Authors. Her new book, Enemies at Home, is a Flavia Albia mystery.
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Saturday 18 October Saturday Event 17 Patrick Francis
£5.00
Raleigh Hall, Digby Road 5.30pm – 6.30pm Patrick talks about the research he undertook when writing his book, Vivat Shirburnia: Sherborne School and the Great War and, with Rachel Hassall, Archivist of Sherborne School, discusses how it involved the town of Sherborne. This is a unique project, in which he has researched and documented the lives of all the Sherborne boys and masters who served in the First World War - the fallen and those who went on to live full and interesting lives afterwards. No other school or institution has done this. Patrick is a history teacher at the school and is a former housemaster and head of history. Rachel Hassall is Sherborne School’s archivist. She began her career as the first ever graduate trainee at the Dorset History Centre, before doing a Master’s degree in Archive Administration at LIverpool University. Since that time, she has worked as an archivist at Hereford Record Office, Longleat House, the University of Reading’s Museum of English Rural Life and at the University of Bristol, where she worked on the
We are very grateful to the following businesses who are supporting the Festival
The Eastbury Hotel • The Green Mogers Drewett • Reads Coffee
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theatre collection and the Penguin Book archive. She has been archivist at Sherborne School since 2010. As well as using archive footage, Vivat Shirburnia is illustrated with contemporary photographs by David Ridgway. The originals will be exhibited in the Holt Gallery in September, and are available for purchase via a silent auction process.
Celebrating
40 years
1974-2014
The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association prides itself on providing a wide-ranging selection of books at all prices.
The PBFA Sherborne book fair is held three times a year at the Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3NL from 10am to 4pm. Saturday 4th October 2014 - Saturday 27th December 2014 - Saturday 4th April 2015 We look forward to welcoming all our visitors throughout the year PBFA Enquiries: 01763 248400 info@pbfa.org www.pbfa.org
Saturday 18 October Saturday Event 18 Benedict Allen
£8.50
Digby Hall, Hound Street 7.30pm – 8.30pm Adventurer and author Benedict Allen is wellknown from his six BBC TV series and ten books – but also his pioneering technique as an explorer. His approach has been not to take conventional backup, GPS or satellite phone but to immerse himself among remote people and learn skills from them - before embarking on a testing solo journey. He underwent a severe 6-week initiation ceremony to better understand a remote forest people of New Guinea and crossed the whole of the Amazon Basin after training from the Matses Indians. Similarly, he made the first recorded journey up the length of the ‘Skeleton Coast’ of Namibia and in Mongolia undertook a sixweek lone crossing of the Gobi Desert with his camels. More recently he trekked a 1000 km through the Arctic with dogs in the worst winter in living memory. He is said to have almost died nine times and arguably has lived longer alone in hostile and isolated environments than anyone alive.
EVENT 18 Sponsored by Melbury Gallery with Sherborne Literary Society
Date for your Diary Sherborne Literary Festival 2015 Wednesday 14 October to Sunday 18 October 2015
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Sunday 19 October Sunday Event 19 Festal Mattins
Donation
Castleton Church 11.00am – 12.00pm
£8.50
Raleigh Hall 3.30pm – 4.30pm Nick Groom is Professor in English at the University of Exeter, and has also taught the universities of Bristol, Chicago, Stanford, and Oxford. He has written or edited over a dozen books, including The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag (2006) and The Gothic (2012). His latest book, The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year (2013) was greeted by Bel Mooney in the Daily Mail with the words, ‘It’s no exaggeration to say that this is a volume I have been waiting for all my life... I love Nick Groom’s passionate plea for us to be aware of traditional connections between human lives, the seasons and the natural world’. Nick Groom lives on Dartmoor with his family, a cat, and a flock of sheep; he is currently finishing a book on British saints’ days and a polemic on the countryside.
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£5.00
Raleigh Hall 5.30pm – 6.30pm
As this is the Sunday of the Literary Festival, we invite you to join the congregation of the pretty Church of St Mary Magdalene at Castleton on the edge of Sherborne for a service full of literary references and music. Come and enjoy a service in this delightful church built in 1714 by the 5th Lord Digby to replace the original Norman building pulled down by Sir Walter Raleigh.
Event 20 Nick Groom
Event 21 James Crowden
1914 - From Chandeliers to Annie Laurie . James Crowden talks about his new book on the fast moving events of 1914. These verbatim accounts, poems and anecdotes chart the progress of the First World War from Mons through Le Cateau, Nery, The Marne and the Aisne to the stubborn defence Ypres. Embedded in this book are nurses’ accounts from Antwerp, certain naval disasters in The Broad Fourteens involving Uboats, piracy in the Bay of Bengal, Mesopotamia, Indian troops in France, casualty clearing stations set up in old monastery barns and of course, the Christmas truce which at one point involved the singing of Annie Laurie by a German officer on Christmas Eve.
Sunday 19 October Sunday Event 22 Gyles Brandreth
£15
presents The Seven Secrets of Happiness Digby Hall, Hound Street 7.30pm – 9.30 pm (with a 30 minute interval for wine and nibbles)
This is the last event of the 2014 Festival! Come and be entertained, provoked and teased! When Gyles Brandreth set out to find the seven secrets of happiness he started in Las Vegas and ended up in the psychiatrist’s chair. What he discovered about who gets to be happy and how, plus other useful lessons picked up along the way, from Frank Sinatra and The Queen among others, provide the essence of a unique one-man show that should make you laugh and could change your life. An award-winning raconteur, Just A Minute regular and One Show reporter Gyles has recently appeared on QI, Have I Got News For You, Room 101, Countdown and Desert Island Discs. His book The Seven Secrets of Happiness has been a Number One best-seller and in Edinburgh his Happiness show won multiple 5 stars. ‘Absolute joy,’ said The Scotsman: ‘Hilarious. Touching. Wholly entertaining.’ ‘Incredibly funny, wildly indiscreet.’ Daily Mail
We are very grateful to all the local business that have encouraged and supported us this year. Our thanks go to Knight Frank, Waitrose, Castle Gardens, ArtsLink, Robin James, psmailing, PBFA, Margaret Balfour, Sherborne Girls, Dike & Son, J & M Parsons, The Eastbury Hotel, Mogers Drewett, Mabers, Henry Willis, Melbury Gallery, Oliver’s, Dorset Mac Man, Chapter House Books & the Sanctuary Coffee Shop, Sherborne Castle Estates, Eastbury House Residential Home, Writing Magazine, Leweston School, Upstairs Downstairs, The Jerram Gallery, Reeds Coffee, Winstones, Shelleys The Printers, Vintage Pens, Sherborne Girls, The Conduit Magazine 17
Festival Events for Young People These take place throughout the Festival on school premises and are restricted to school children only. They are free to all the children although Sherborne Literary Society is sponsoring the authors and performers.
Tuesday 14 October The Gryphon School will hold a debate with a proposed motion concerned with acceptable subject matter for teen literature, eg ‘Is any topic suitable if the writing is good enough?’ More information will be available.
Wednesday 15 October, Matt Dickinson, explorer, film maker and writer of The Everest Files will be speaking at Sherborne Prep School and students from years 7 and 8 at the Gryphon will be invited. That afternoon, James Wong will join pupils at Sherborne Primary School in their garden and garden room for a lively’ hands-on gardening session. At The Gryphon School, Laura Vaughan, Student Ambassador and final year English student at Exeter University, will talk about taking English beyond school.
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Thursday 16 October sees performance poet Chris Redmond talking and holding a series of workshops at The Gryphon School. Students of the relevant age from other Sherborne schools will be invited.
Friday 17 October has Caroline Green, writer of teen thrillers talking and running a workshop hosted by The Gryphon School Exact timings will not be fixed until next term. Separate posters, advertising young people’s events, are being prepared for the schools.
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Recommended Restaurants and Cafés Recommended The Festival Café The Festival Café is open during the hours of the Festival for teas and coffees and light lunches. It is located in the Digby Hall and caters for most dietary requirements.
Walled Garden Restaurant - Castle Gardens Take in the atmosphere of the old fruit store in the Walled Garden Restaurant at Castle Gardens in New Road. The menu changes daily and is full of warming main courses made with local meat, game and fish, fabulous coffees and pastries and indulgent puddings. 01935 814345
www.thegardeneronline.co.uk
Postcode: DT9 5NR
Winstone’s Bookshop and Café Award-winning Winstone’s Bookshop and cafe offers tea, coffee or hot chocolate and a section of local biscuits. A perfect time to browse among the books of the Festival authors. 01935 816128
www.winstonebooks.co.uk
Postcode: DT9 3PX
Oliver’s Coffee House Enjoy the unique atmosphere of Oliver’s Coffee House for a variety of light lunches (that can be accompanied by a glass of wine), teas and coffees and scrumptious cakes. 01935 815005
www.oliverscoffeehouse.co.uk
Postcode: DT9 3PU
The Green For a more substantial meal in elegant surroundings visit The Green where you can choose from their Menu du Jour or a la carte. 01935 813821
www.greenrestaurant.co.uk
Postcode: DT9 3HY
Chapterhouse Books & The Sanctuary Coffee Shop Chapterhouse Books & The Sanctuary Coffee shop offers light lunches, coffees, teas and cakes as well as the opportunity to browse among their 40,000 books. 01935 816262
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www.chapterhouse-books.co.uk
Postcode: DT9 3NT
Latest books from some of our speakers
Latest books
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Overview Overview Date
Time
Event
Location
Price
Wed 15 Oct
11.30am
James Wong
Digby Hall
£12.50
3.00pm
Poems in a Pub with a Pint
Digby Tap
Free
3.30pm
Helen Yemm
Digby Hall
£8.50
7.30pm
Gardeners’ Question Time
Digby Hall
£5.00
Victoria Glendinning
Digby Hall
£8.50
3.30pm
Ann Widdecombe
Digby Hall
£8.50
5.00pm
Ivor Gurney Film
Raleigh Hall
£5.00
7.30pm
Paul Atterbury
Digby Hall
£8.50
11.30am
Rachel Joyce
Digby Hall
£8.50
3.30pm
Harry Bucknall
Digby Hall
£8.50
5.30pm
Mark Freestone and Carolyn Corlett
Cheap St Church £5.00
7.30pm
Helen Rappaport
Digby Hall
Thurs 16 Oct 11.30am
Fri 17 Oct
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£8.50
Overview Overview Date
Time
Event
Location
Price
Sat 18 Oct
11.00am
Paul Stickland
Raleigh Hall
Free
1.30pm
Ivor Gurney Film
Raleigh Hall
£5.00
2.00pm
Creative Writing Workshop
Wingfield Room
£20.00
3.30pm
Lindsey Davis
Cheap St Church £8.50
5.30pm
Patrick Francis
Raleigh Hall
£5.00
7.30pm
Benedict Allen
Digby Hall
£10.00
11.00am
Festal Mattins
Castleton Church Donation
3.30pm
Nick Groom
Raleigh Hall
£8.50
5.30pm
James Crowden
Raleigh Hall
£5.00
7.30pm
Gyles Brandreth
Digby Hall
£15.00
Sun 19 Oct
Proud to be the
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Tickets Tickets Tickets for all Events are available at Sherborne Tourist Information Centre Digby Road Sherborne DT9 3NL Tel: 01935 815341 e-mail: sherborne.tic@westdorset-dc.gov.uk Opening Hours: Monday-Saturday 9.30am-4.00pm
Tickets during the Festival will also be available at The Festival CafĂŠ, Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AA
Tickets also available through our website www.SherborneLiterarySociety.com Disabled Access Digby Hall, the Raleigh Hall and Cheap Street Church are fully equipped for disabled access.
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Thurs 16 Oct
Fri 17 Oct
Time
Event
Price
11.30am
1
James Wong
£12.50
3.00pm
2
Poems in a Pub with a Pint
Free*
3.30pm
3
Helen Yemm
£8.50
7.30pm
4
Gardeners’ Question Time
£5.00
11.30am
5
Victoria Glendinning
£8.50
3.30pm
6
Ann Widdecombe
£8.50
5.00pm
7
Ivor Gurney Film
£5.00
7.30pm
8
Paul Atterbury
£8.50
11.30am
9
Rachel Joyce
£8.50
3.30pm
10
Harry Bucknall
£8.50
5.30pm
11
Mark Freestone and Carolyn Corlett
£5.00
7.30pm
12
Helen Rappaport
£8.50
No. Cost
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Booking Form Form Booking Date
Time
Event
Price
Sat 18 Oct
11.00am
13
Paul Stickland
Free*
1.30pm
14
Ivor Gurney Film
£5.00
2.00pm
15
Creative Writing Workshop
£20.00
3.30pm
16
Lindsey Davis
£8.50
5.30pm
17
Patrick Francis
£5.00
7.30pm
18
Benedict Allen
£8.50
11.00am
19
Festal Mattins
Donation
3.30pm
20
Nick Groom
£8.50
5.30pm
21
James Crowden
£5.00
7.30pm
22
Gyles Brandreth
£15.00
Sun 19 Oct
No. Cost
£1 discount per event for Sherborne Literary Society Members 10% discount for Group Bookings (6+ tickets)
TOTAL COST £ * Those events marked as Free with a single asterisk (*) still require a ticket due to restrictions on numbers and are available from Sherborne Tourist Information Centre and during the Festival from the Festival Café in Digby Hall.
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Box Office & Booking Box Office &Information Booking Post
Please fill in the Booking Form and send to: Sherborne Tourist Information Centre, Digby Road, Sherborne, DT9 3NL together with: - a cheque made payable to West Dorset District Council - a stamped-addressed envelope
Phone
Just ring Sherborne Tourist Information Centre on 01935 815341 There is a small fee to cover charges and postage.
In Person
You may use credit/debit card, cheque or cash at Sherborne Tourist Information Centre or you can purchase tickets with cash or cheque at the Festival CafĂŠ in Digby Hall (only during the Festival).
Website
Tickets are also available from our website www.SherborneLiterarySociety.com
Opening Hours
Sherborne Tourist Information Centre - Monday-Saturday 9.30am-4.00pm. Festival CafĂŠ in Digby Hall, Sherborne - Wednesday 15 - Sunday 19 October 9.30am-7.30pm (Sunday 10.00am until 5.30pm) only during the Festival.
Tickets on the door
Tickets will be available to purchase at the event venue from Wednesday 15 - Sunday 19 subject to availability. Be aware that events can sell out in advance so early booking is recommended.
Discounts
These are applicable to either Sherborne Literary Society Members or Group Bookings of 6+ tickets booked at the same time.
Refunds
The Festival is unable to refund money or exchange tickets except in the case of an event cancellation.
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