Wimborne Literary Festival

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Come and hear the story of how one man found out he was adopted and how that revelation brought him to Dorset!https://ww...
30/08/2026

Come and hear the story of how one man found out he was adopted and how that revelation brought him to Dorset!

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What if everything you knew about yourself turned out to be only half the story?

Comedian Al Isaacs grew up as an only child with loving parents, a gift for laughter, and a simple truth about his family until an innocent phone call from his mother’s doctor just weeks before his father’s passing exposed a decades-old family secret—he had been part of a gray-market adoption, hidden behind false paperwork and decades of silence.

Finding Mary Smith is a funny, raw, and deeply human memoir about adoption, identity, and belonging. Isaacs takes readers on an unforgettable search for the woman who gave him life and the truth that nearly vanished with her name. His journey leads from suburban New York to the smoky coffeehouses of Greenwich Village, where his birth mother once sang alongside the dreamers of the 1960s folk music scene. With the timing of a comic and the honesty of a son trying to understand his past, Isaacs turns a life-altering discovery into a story of love, loss, and self-discovery.

Thursday 24th September 7:00 pmCOASTLINE: An Exploration of Britain's Coastal Heritage ...
01/08/2026

Thursday 24th September 7:00 pm

COASTLINE: An Exploration of Britain's Coastal Heritage BEN ROBINSON

THE STUNNING NEW BOOK FROM THE HOST OF BBC 2'S VILLAGES BY THE SEA
In Britain we are surrounded by our coast. It shapes us physically, but it's more than just a place where the land meets the sea. Far from being at the margins of national interests, the coast, and its history, has always been at the core of the British people's most important endeavours and central to era-defining national events.
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Saturday 19th September 3:00 pmFINDING MARY SMITH: A Memoir of Family Secrets, Gray Market Adoption, and the Miracle Reu...
01/08/2026

Saturday 19th September 3:00 pm

FINDING MARY SMITH: A Memoir of Family Secrets, Gray Market Adoption, and the Miracle Reunion with My Mom : AL ISAACS

What if everything you knew about yourself turned out to be only half the story?
Comedian Al Isaacs grew up as an only child with loving parents, a gift for laughter, and a simple truth about his family until an innocent phone call from his mother’s doctor just weeks before his father’s death exposed a decades-old family secret—he had been part of a grey-market adoption, hidden behind false paperwork and decades of silence.

The book tells the true story of how Al discovered at age 52 that he had been adopted through the gray market without his knowledge, and the extraordinary journey that followed as he used DNA testing and genealogy to uncover his biological family. The story ultimately led him to his birth mother, a former famous folk singer from New York, who now lives in Dorset.

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