BOOKLOVERS in Bridport are in line for another feast of words as preparations gather pace for the town’s eighth star-studded Literary Festival next month.
Guest of honour at the George Millar Literary Dinner at the Bull Hotel on November 13 is the grande-dame of crime writing PD James, Baroness James of Holland Park, pictured, who will regale diners with a light-hearted talk about writing crime fiction.
In a something-for-everyone programme, historian and broadcaster Dan Snow will be talking about castles, knights and siege warfare; actress, writer, dancer and psychologist Pamela Stephenson will be chatting about her autobiography and historian AN Wilson will be in conversation about his novel about Josiah Wedgwood, The Potter’s Hand.
The first Kenneth Allsop Memorial Talk is on November 16 at the Electric Palace and will be given by Britain’s foremost nature writer Richard Mabey, in memory of the late broadcaster, writer and ardent conservationist who lived in West Milton.
The festival, which runs from November 11 to November 18, begins on Remembrance Sunday with two events recalling war in different ways.
Flowers in the Minefields is James Crowden’s exploration of the life, letters and poetry of Second World War poet John Jarmain at Sladers Yard in West Bay.
Broadcaster and author Jonathan Dimbleby will also be discussing his book Destiny in the Desert, at the Bull Hotel, marking the 70th anniversary of the battle of El Alamein in November 1942.
Other events include local poet Pam Zinnemann-Hope’s reading at Sladers Yard called On Cigarette Papers, following her discovery of a small pile of papers with writing penciled in Russian by her late mother.
Elsewhere the programme features jazz mixed with the poetry of Philip Larkin, the fascination of dolls’ houses, a journey along the A303 in a Morris Traveller, and Britons in the American wild west.
In the Festival Debate on November 15, writer and broadcaster Tariq Ali joins journalist David Prysor-Jones to debate how the US is forced to revisit The American Dream in presidential election year.
More information and the full programme for the Bridport Literary Festival is available on bridlit.com
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