Dorset Books

(Roger Guttridge)  The country clergyman who eloped with a parishioner’s wife … the stranded whale that became a tourist attraction on a Dorset beach … the spinster who kept her companion’s body for almost three years without reporting her death……

(Dr Andrew Norman)  An attractive yet simple medieval house, its former inhabitants include figures who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of architecture, art and sculpture.  Their contributions have been not just of local importance but of national, and…..

Between 1948 and 1982 the Reverend Oliver Willmott wrote three quarters of a million words chronicling the life of his three parishes in West Dorset – Loders, Dottery and Askerwell.  This book provides nuggets from just the first five years of…..