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BOOK REVIEWS

Reviews by some of our Society members. They are also published in the Sherborne Times.

All books reviewed here, together with many others, may be purchased from Winstone's Books with a 10% discount for Society members. Click here.

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Michael Morpurgo

Spring: The Story of a Season

Monday, 30 June 2025

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Joanne Harris

Vianne

Monday, 30 June 2025

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Jeremy Vine

Murder on Line One

Monday, 30 June 2025

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of The Duke of Buckingham

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

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Frances Wilson

Burning Man: The Ascent of D.H.Lawrence

Thursday, 7 November 2024

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Sophie Irwin

A Lady’s Guide to Scandal

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Ranulph Fiennes

Lawrence of Arabia

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Tom Fort

Rivets, Trivets & Galvanised Buckets: Life in a village hardware shop

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Peter Frankopan

The Earth Transformed

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Rob Hobson

Unprocess Your Life

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Libby Page

The Lifeline

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Anthony Sattin

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Friday, 17 March 2023

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Amy Jeffs

Wild: Tales From Early Medieval Britain

Monday, 28 November 2022

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Roger Morgan-Grenville

Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows

Saturday, 4 June 2022

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Charlotte Philby

Dirty Money

Monday, 30 June 2025

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Robert Macfarlane

Is a River Alive?

Monday, 30 June 2025

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Bijan Omrani

God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England

Monday, 30 June 2025

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Nigel Slater

A Thousand Feasts

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

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Henry Hemming

Four Shots In The Night

Thursday, 7 November 2024

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Levison Wood

Endurance

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Kate Mosse

The Ghost Ship

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

The Rest is History

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Amber Butchart

The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Kristen Perrin

How To Solve Your Own Murder

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Julian Halsby

When Reason Dreams

Sunday, 14 January 2024

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John Gimlette

The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story

Friday, 17 March 2023

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Max Hastings

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Monday, 17 October 2022

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Mike Brearley

Turning Over the Pebbles

Monday, 30 June 2025

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Sophy Roberts

A Training School for Elephants

Monday, 30 June 2025

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James Rebanks

The Place of Tides

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

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Kate Summerscale

The Peepshow: The Murders at 10, Rillington Place

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

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Simon Heffer

Scarcely English

Thursday, 7 November 2024

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Helen Rebanks

The Farmer’s Wife

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Kate Morton

Homecoming

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Janice Hallett

The Mysterious Case of The Alperton Angels

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Liz Copas with Nick Poole

The Lost Orchards

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Robert Ashton

Where Are the Fellows Who Cut The Hay?

Thursday, 2 May 2024

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Ferdinand Mount

Big Caesars and Little Caesars

Friday, 21 July 2023

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Sophy Roberts

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Friday, 17 March 2023

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Colin Heber-Percy

Tales of a Country Parish

Monday, 12 September 2022

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