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The 12th annual Roaring Rangers Day brings live music, tons of vendors, food trucks, a kids' section, and so much more. Make plans to attend on Sept. 17 & 18.

Author Andy Charman, who has just written a novel set in Victorian Dorset, suggests that we all love a little Dorset dialect

Author Andy Charman, who has just written a novel set in Victorian Dorset, suggests that we all love a little Dorset dialect

Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud was 39 when she died of breast cancer last year. As she underwent chemotherapy during lockdown, she began to write her life story

(Ryan Phillips/PA) Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Andy Charman, Rebecca Watson and Paul Mendez are among the authors who have been included on the longlist for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize. Named after the literary agent and publisher Desmond Elliott, the annual prize goes to a first novel written in English and published in the UK. Charman’s Crow Court, Watson’s Little Scratch and Mendez’s ...

By Francis Quinn (S&S £14.99, 384 pp) ‘You’re small on the outside. But, inside, you’re as big as everyone else. You show people that and you won’t go far wrong in life.’ It’s a maternal mantra which 18in high Nat Davy takes to heart as he attempts to survive in the tumultuous court of Charles I, where a dithering King and a homesick Queen (Henrietta Maria of France) are unable to prevent civil war. As religious factions plunge the country into routs and regicide, Nat’s life plot...