EVENTS
Events Information
Most of our events, held throughout the year, are talks given by nationally well-known authors about their latest book. Given the demand to hear them we hold these in a larger venue. The format will usually be a 40 -minute talk, then questions and answers followed by time to meet the author in a book-signing.
Apart from these larger events, we also hold smaller events in cosier venues where, for example, a local, or less well-established author or poet talks about their book(s) or a literary subject. Drinks and sometimes canapé buffetsare provided and time is allowed to turn these events into super social occasions.
Events Programme
15 August (Members only)
Lalage Snow, Garden Visit
11 September, 7pm
Katherine Barker - Dickens
24 September, 2pm
Jeffrey Archer
6 October, 3pm: Frances Wilson - D.H. Lawrence
26 November, 4pm
Simon Heffer - Scarcely English
3 December, 11.30am
Lucy Hughes-Hallett – The Scapegoat
29 January 6.30pm (doors open 6pm)
Annual General Meeting of The Sherborne Literary Society
Followed by talk and book signing by Tim Spicer OBE
At Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne
Please be in your seat by 6.30pm for a prompt start to the AGM. Non-members are welcome to attend the AGM also. The talk is expected to start at around 7pm, after the AGM completes. Arrivals after 6.30pm may be asked to wait before taking their seats to avoid interrupting the AGM.
11 - 13 April 2025
The Sherborne Travel Writing Festival
Curated by Rory MacLean
At The Powell Theatre, Abbey Road, Sherborne
How to Buy Tickets
Tickets are available to buy via Ticketsource online (Eventbrite for Travel Writing Festival) – simply click on the event link below, or pop into Winstone's Bookshop, 8 Cheap Street, Sherborne (01935 816128) to buy them over the counter.
All books featured in our programme and many others may be purchased from Winstone's bookshop with a 10% discount for Society Members. Click here.