Three more high profile writers have been confirmed for the upcoming Bridport Literary Festival, due to take place from November 9 to 16.

This year’s festival focuses on nature writing as well as a day devoted to crime and one to history.

Helen Macdonald’s memoir: H is for Hawk, is one of the year’s runaway publishing successes and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.

From the age of seven, Helen was determined to become a falconer like her father and read all the classic books about raptors including TH White’s tortured masterpiece: The Goshawk.

When her father dies, Helen is knocked sideways and becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 and takes her back to Cambridge. H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey and a struggle to reconcile death with life and love. Helen will be in conversation with journalist Susannah Simons on November 9 at the Bull Hotel. Also, award-winning author, Philip Marsden has been confirmed, fresh from the successes of his latest book: Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place.

When he moved to a remote creek-side farmhouse in Cornwall, Philip decided to explore the layers of mythology built up from the ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to Lands End.

His book is a haunting evocation of one of the most fascinating regions of Europe. Philip will give an illustrated talk at the Bridport Arts Centre on November 11.

For something completely different writer Horatio Clare will recall his travels and adventures with local filmmaker Nick Fisher at the Electric Palace on November 15. His book, Down to the Sea in Ships follows his journey across the world’s oceans on cargo ships.