Dorchester Literary Festival facebook We are thrilled to announce our long list for the Hall & Woodhouse DLF Local Writing Prize. This year we received 70 entries (up from last year’s 53), representing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction including short stories, travel, fantasy, history and crime. Many thanks to our second round judges… Read More Civitella book gets nominated
It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of Muriel Spark this year but I wasn’t aware of this when I tuned into Radio 4 this morning to hear Book of the Week . When I heard the title of the latest choice- Appointment in Arezzo by Alan Taylor I was so excited to hear the… Read More Crème de la Crème in Tuscany
Deep in the Tuscan countryside, the medieval hilltop village of Civitella had lived peacefully for centuries, until war ripped the community apart. The events of 29 June 1944, left 116 men and boys dead and three quarters of the houses destroyed or burned as reprisal for the shooting of three off-duty German soldiers in the… Read More The Road to Civitella 1944: the Captain, the Chaplain and the Massacre
Civitella in Val di Chiana, 1920 Keith Morgan writes: ‘I am really excited that The Road to Civitella 1944: The Captain, the Chaplain and the Massacre is finally out. It’s wonderful to read about my father Capatin John Morgan and his friend the Passionist chaplain Father O’Shea and what happened during their time in Italy… Read More Italy 29 June 1944 – a father’s story finally told
