Ridgeway Reading Session Notes

Although this South Dorset Ridgeway project has now finished, both the project reading list and session notes can be found on this blog, allowing you to enjoy and explore the works mentioned before reading and commenting on notes from the group sessions. Please find the Reading List at this top of this page, and the Session Notes in the archive on the right hand side

The Reading List

During the course of the Ridgeway Reading Project, the following were read and discussed:


  • Moonfleet. John Meade Faulkner
  • The Sailors Return. David Garrett
  • Dorset Stories. Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Maiden Castle. John Cowper Powys
  •  A Changed Man and Other Tales. Thomas Hardy
  • Under The Greenwood Tree. Thomas Hardy
  •  Dorset Essays. Llewelyn Powys
  •  In the Country. Kenneth Allsop
  • A Dream of Wessex. Christopher Priest
  • The Trumpet Major. Thomas Hardy
  • On Chesil Beach. Ian McEwan
  • Queen of Stones. Emma Tennant
  • Winter. Christopher Nicholson 
  • Various poems by Williams Barnes