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Ilminster Literary Festival 2024

Highlights from our 2024 festival

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Alan Johnson answering questions

Alan Johnson with Lulu Taylor

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Amanda Craig book signing

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Simon Whitehouse

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Peter Clark and Bill Lawrence 2

Peter Rosser signing and chatting

Peter Rosser

Ilminster Literary Festival 2023

Highlights from our 2023 festival

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Andrew Prince, Downton, Gatsby, Jewellery,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Andrew Prince, Downton, Gatsby, Jewellery,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Andrew Prince, Downton, Gatsby, Jewellery,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Andrew Prince, Downton, Gatsby, Jewellery,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Andrew Prince, Downton, Gatsby, Jewellery,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Andrew Prince, Downton, Gatsby, Jewellery,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Andrew Prince, Downton, Gatsby, Jewellery,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Andrew Prince, Downton, Gatsby, Jewellery,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Grace Palmer, Fiction, Short Stories,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Grace Palmer, Fiction, Short Stories,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Grace Palmer, Fiction, Short Stories,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Grace Palmer, Fiction, Short Stories,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Grace Palmer, Fiction, Short Stories,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Gemma Aldridge, Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Fleet Street, Deputy Editor,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Vince Cable, How to be a Politician, Liberal Democrat, Politics, Ilminster Warehouse Theatre,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Calista Lucy, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Dulwich College, 16th Century, 17th Century, 400th Anniversary,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Calista Lucy, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Dulwich College, 16th Century, 17th Century, 400th Anniversary,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Calista Lucy, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Dulwich College, 16th Century, 17th Century, 400th Anniversary,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Calista Lucy, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Dulwich College, 16th Century, 17th Century, 400th Anniversary,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Calista Lucy, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Dulwich College, 16th Century, 17th Century, 400th Anniversary,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Lucy Lethbridge, Tourists How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Art News in New York,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Lucy Lethbridge, Tourists How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Art News in New York,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Lucy Lethbridge, Tourists How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Art News in New York,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Lucy Lethbridge, Tourists How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Art News in New York,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Lucy Lethbridge, Tourists How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Art News in New York,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Lucy Lethbridge, Tourists How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Art News in New York,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Lucy Lethbridge, Tourists How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Art News in New York,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Lucy Lethbridge, Tourists How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Art News in New York,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Simon Keable-Elliott, Utterly Immoral Robert Keable and his Scandalous Novel,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Simon Keable-Elliott, Utterly Immoral Robert Keable and his Scandalous Novel,

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Simon Parkin, Island of Extraordinary Captives, A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal, Enemy Aliens,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Simon Parkin, Island of Extraordinary Captives, A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal, Enemy Aliens,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Simon Parkin, Island of Extraordinary Captives, A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal, Enemy Aliens,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Simon Parkin, Island of Extraordinary Captives, A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal, Enemy Aliens,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tessa Boase, London’s Lost Department Stores, Victorian, Edwardian, Marshall & Snelgrove, Pontings, D H Evans, Bodgers of Ilford,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tessa Boase, London’s Lost Department Stores, Victorian, Edwardian, Marshall & Snelgrove, Pontings, D H Evans, Bodgers of Ilford,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tessa Boase, London’s Lost Department Stores, Victorian, Edwardian, Marshall & Snelgrove, Pontings, D H Evans, Bodgers of Ilford,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tessa Boase, London’s Lost Department Stores, Victorian, Edwardian, Marshall & Snelgrove, Pontings, D H Evans, Bodgers of Ilford,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tina Orr-Munro, Breakneck Point, Richard Place, CSI, Journalist, North Devon,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tina Orr-Munro, Breakneck Point, Richard Place, CSI, Journalist, North Devon,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tina Orr-Munro, Breakneck Point, Richard Place, CSI, Journalist, North Devon,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tina Orr-Munro, Breakneck Point, Richard Place, CSI, Journalist, North Devon,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Tina Orr-Munro, Breakneck Point, Richard Place, CSI, Journalist, North Devon,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Dave Usher, Hestercombe Garden Restoration, Lutyens-Jekyll, 18th Century,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Dave Usher, Hestercombe Garden Restoration, Lutyens-Jekyll, 18th Century,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Dave Usher, Hestercombe Garden Restoration, Lutyens-Jekyll, 18th Century,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Kate Vigurs, Mission France, F Section, Resistance, Gestapo,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Kate Vigurs, Mission France, F Section, Resistance, Gestapo,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Kate Vigurs, Mission France, F Section, Resistance, Gestapo,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Auctioneer, Richard Kay, Lawrences Auctioneers, watercolour, prints, drawings, Sotheby’s, Bonhams,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Auctioneer, Richard Kay, Lawrences Auctioneers, watercolour, prints, drawings, Sotheby’s, Bonhams,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Auctioneer, Richard Kay, Lawrences Auctioneers, watercolour, prints, drawings, Sotheby’s, Bonhams,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Crossword, The Times, Sunday Times, MoneyWeek, Tim Moorey, Puzzles,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Crossword, The Times, Sunday Times, MoneyWeek, Tim Moorey, Puzzles,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Crossword, The Times, Sunday Times, MoneyWeek, Tim Moorey, Puzzles,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Crossword, The Times, Sunday Times, MoneyWeek, Tim Moorey, Puzzles,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Climate Change, Sophie Pavelle, Countryfile Magazine, BBC Wildlife, Zoologist, Natural History, Flora, Fauna,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Climate Change, Sophie Pavelle, Countryfile Magazine, BBC Wildlife, Zoologist, Natural History, Flora, Fauna,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Climate Change, Sophie Pavelle, Countryfile Magazine, BBC Wildlife, Zoologist, Natural History, Flora, Fauna,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Climate Change, Sophie Pavelle, Countryfile Magazine, BBC Wildlife, Zoologist, Natural History, Flora, Fauna,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Jacquelyn Bevan, Lisa Betteridge, Linda Stocks, Somerset, Wiltshire, jazz, tango, Ilminster Arts Centre,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Jacquelyn Bevan, Lisa Betteridge, Linda Stocks, Somerset, Wiltshire, jazz, tango, Ilminster Arts Centre,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Jacquelyn Bevan, Lisa Betteridge, Linda Stocks, Somerset, Wiltshire, jazz, tango, Ilminster Arts Centre,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Jacquelyn Bevan, Lisa Betteridge, Linda Stocks, Somerset, Wiltshire, jazz, tango, Ilminster Arts Centre,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Jacquelyn Bevan, Lisa Betteridge, Linda Stocks, Somerset, Wiltshire, jazz, tango, Ilminster Arts Centre,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Jacquelyn Bevan, Lisa Betteridge, Linda Stocks, Somerset, Wiltshire, jazz, tango, Ilminster Arts Centre,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Jacquelyn Bevan, Lisa Betteridge, Linda Stocks, Somerset, Wiltshire, jazz, tango, Ilminster Arts Centre,

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Waterstones

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Ilminster Literary Festival, Waterstones

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Greenslade Taylor Hunt

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Symonds and Sampson

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Ilminster Literary Festival 2022

Highlights from our 2022 festival

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Ilminster Literary Festival 2021

Highlights from our 2021 festival

Ken and Ken - Box office staff at work!

“This looks like a good read”

Tim Mirfin – An Opera Singer’s Life. Special Friends’ event

Tim Mirfin

Appreciative audience.

Stephen Moss : Britain’s Favourite Birds

Stephen Moss

Helen Fry : M19, a history of the Secret Service for escape and evasion in W. War 2

Dr Lucy Pollock

Dr Lucy Pollock : The Book About Getting Older (for people who don’t want to talk about it)

Charlie and Brian – at work in The Warehouse Theatre lighting box

Caroline Newark: The Making of a Tudor (Readers Group)

Barry Venning – the life, times and cartoons of Carl Giles

Appreciative Arts Centre audience.

Andrew Lownie

Andrew Lownie : The Duke of Windsor, Traitor King

Alan Johnson and Mike Lanigan in conversation

Abigail Willis : Secret Gardens of Somerset

Alan Johnson book signing : The Late Train to Gipsy Hill

Ilminster Literary Festival 2019

Highlights from our 2019 festival

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Writing Competition 2019

Highlights from our 2019 writing competition

Writing Competition 2019

Writing Competition 2019

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