Countdown to Dartmouth Book Festival
With over 30 events across the three days - there will be something for everyone.
Not long now until Dartmouth, Devon, becomes THE destination for book lovers - visit Dartmouth on Fri 19, Sat 20 and Sun 21 September for the second annual @Dartmouth Book Festival
If you love Environmental Matters - we have Jo Loosemore and Anna Turns talking about their new BBC series Secrets of the Sea.
We have Paul Lamb talking about his book 'Of Thorns and Briar' - a feast of rural life in a wagon.
Alex Riley discusses his latest book Super Natural: How Life thrives in Impossible Places. Poppy Okotcha is a trained horticulturist and regenerative grower, on a mission to inspire people to engage with and connect to the natural world. Poppy teaches people how to grow and forage their own food, whilst living and eating consciously - for personal, community and planetary health.
If Crime is your thing with bring you Kate Ellis - she has a love of crime fiction. Devon, and in particular Dartmouth, has been the inspiration and setting for her twenty-nine detective novels which blend history and mystery and feature archaeology graduate DI Wesley Peterson.
Orlando Murrin talks about his new book Murder Below Deck, and CB Everett talks about his book The Other People.
We also bring you Robin Ince (The Infinite Monkey Cage and Bibliomaniac) - talking about his latest book Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity is the story of how his discovery that he had ADHD was a stepping stone to better things.
Rachel Joyce (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) joins us to talk about her new book - The Homemade God - and is also our BIG BOOK CLUB read - s don't just come along yourself - bring your whole book club with you :-)
Emily Hauser is a scholar of Classics and her most recent book published in 2025 is Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It. In it she uncovers the true stories of the women- queens, mothers, warriors and slaves- behind the Greek legends in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey by piecing together evidence from the original texts, recent archaeological finds and DNA studies.
John Suchet opens the Book Festival on Friday 19th with a re-creation of a Viennese Concert Cafe - with the aroma of coffee, delicious cakes and wonderful music. John’s latest book The Last Waltz- The Strauss Dynasty and Vienna, portrays the gripping drama behind this talented and successful musical family, set against the turbulent backdrop of nineteenth century Austria.
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