Dorset Journey by Alan R Bennett
The perfect book for anyone interested in Dorset. Over 400 pages and more than 100 photographs detailing the author's one year journey through Dorset during 2008.
Alan Bennett's story begins on the Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, just before midnight celebrations usher in New Year, 2008. During his year-long travels, criss-crossing the county in which he has lived for most of his life, he visits every town and more than fifty villages recording the lives, preoccupations and opinions of individuals in innumerable walks of life.
He meets landowners and farmers, businessmen and traders, mayors and councillors, policemen and prison officers, teachers and religious figures from different faiths, journalists, wildlife experts and conservationists, railway enthusiasts, sportsmen and women, writers and artists, musicians, serving soldiers, community workers and volunteers, besides a host of other interesting individuals.
He talks at length with:
- Chief Constable, Martin Baker
- Oscar-winning screenwriter and film director, Julian Fellowes
- best-selling 'psychological thriller' writer, Minette Walters
- football manager, Harry Redknapp
- Monkey World's Dr Alison Cronin
- BBC's Antiques Roadshow expert, Paul Atterbury
The author describes his book as being 'part investigative journalism, part travel and part autobiography'.
Alan R. Bennet is donating £6 from every sale of this book to Weldmar Hospicecare Trust - and £1 to John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation in Ferndown.
