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Ilminster Literary Festival 2023

Highlights from our 2023 festival

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

1st June 2023 - Andrew Prince - From Downton to Gatsby – Jewellery and Fashion from 1890 to 1929

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

1st June 2023 - Andrew Prince - From Downton to Gatsby – Jewellery and Fashion from 1890 to 1929

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

1st June 2023 - Andrew Prince - From Downton to Gatsby – Jewellery and Fashion from 1890 to 1929

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

1st June 2023 - Andrew Prince - From Downton to Gatsby – Jewellery and Fashion from 1890 to 1929

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

1st June 2023 - Andrew Prince - From Downton to Gatsby – Jewellery and Fashion from 1890 to 1929

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

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

1st June 2023 - Andrew Prince - From Downton to Gatsby – Jewellery and Fashion from 1890 to 1929

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

1st June 2023 - Andrew Prince - From Downton to Gatsby – Jewellery and Fashion from 1890 to 1929

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

1st June 2023 – Grace Palmer – The Fresh Fiction Best Short Stories

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

1st June 2023 – Grace Palmer – The Fresh Fiction Best Short Stories

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

1st June 2023 – Grace Palmer – The Fresh Fiction Best Short Stories

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

1st June 2023 – Grace Palmer – The Fresh Fiction Best Short Stories

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

1st June 2023 – Grace Palmer – The Fresh Fiction Best Short Stories

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

Ilminster Literary Festival, Literature, Retirement Rebel,

1st June 2023 – Siobhan Daniels – Retirement Rebel

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

2nd June 2023 – Gemma Aldridge – From School to Fleet Street

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

2nd June 2023 – Vince Cable – How to be a Politician: 2,000 Years of Good (and Bad) Advice

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

3rd June 2023 – Calista Lucy – Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623

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

3rd June 2023 – Calista Lucy – Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623

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

3rd June 2023 – Calista Lucy – Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623

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

3rd June 2023 – Calista Lucy – Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623

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

3rd June 2023 – Calista Lucy – Shakespeare’s First Folio, 1623

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

3rd June 2023 – Lucy Lethbridge – Tourists ~ How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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

3rd June 2023 – Lucy Lethbridge – Tourists ~ How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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

3rd June 2023 – Lucy Lethbridge – Tourists ~ How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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

3rd June 2023 – Lucy Lethbridge – Tourists ~ How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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

3rd June 2023 – Lucy Lethbridge – Tourists ~ How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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

3rd June 2023 – Lucy Lethbridge – Tourists ~ How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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

3rd June 2023 – Lucy Lethbridge – Tourists ~ How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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

3rd June 2023 – Lucy Lethbridge – Tourists ~ How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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

4th June 2023 - 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,

4th June 2023 - 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,

5th June 2023 – Simon Parkin – Island of Extraordinary Captives ~ A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

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

5th June 2023 – Simon Parkin – Island of Extraordinary Captives ~ A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

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

5th June 2023 – Simon Parkin – Island of Extraordinary Captives ~ A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

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

5th June 2023 – Simon Parkin – Island of Extraordinary Captives ~ A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

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

5th June 2023 - Tessa Boase - London’s Lost Department Stores

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

5th June 2023 - Tessa Boase - London’s Lost Department Stores

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

5th June 2023 - Tessa Boase - London’s Lost Department Stores

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

5th June 2023 - Tessa Boase - London’s Lost Department Stores

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

5th June 2023 – Tina Orr-Munro - Breakneck Point ~ in conversation with Richard Place

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

5th June 2023 – Tina Orr-Munro - Breakneck Point ~ in conversation with Richard Place

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

5th June 2023 – Tina Orr-Munro - Breakneck Point ~ in conversation with Richard Place

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

5th June 2023 – Tina Orr-Munro - Breakneck Point ~ in conversation with Richard Place

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

5th June 2023 – Tina Orr-Munro - Breakneck Point ~ in conversation with Richard Place

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

6th June 2023 - Dave Usher - Hestercombe Gardens Restoration

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

6th June 2023 - Dave Usher - Hestercombe Gardens Restoration

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

6th June 2023 - Dave Usher - Hestercombe Gardens Restoration

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

6th June 2023 – Kate Vigurs – Mission France

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

6th June 2023 – Kate Vigurs – Mission France

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

6th June 2023 – Kate Vigurs – Mission France

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

7th June 2023 - Richard Kay – An Auctioneer’s 10 Commandments

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

7th June 2023 - Richard Kay – An Auctioneer’s 10 Commandments

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

7th June 2023 - Richard Kay – An Auctioneer’s 10 Commandments

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

7th June 2023 – Tim Moorey ~ Secrets of a Crossword Setter

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

7th June 2023 – Tim Moorey ~ Secrets of a Crossword Setter

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

7th June 2023 – Tim Moorey ~ Secrets of a Crossword Setter

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

7th June 2023 – Tim Moorey ~ Secrets of a Crossword Setter

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

8th June 2023 – Sophie Pavelle - Forget-me-not ~ Finding the forgotten species of climate-change Britain

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

8th June 2023 – Sophie Pavelle - Forget-me-not ~ Finding the forgotten species of climate-change Britain

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

8th June 2023 – Sophie Pavelle - Forget-me-not ~ Finding the forgotten species of climate-change Britain

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

8th June 2023 – Sophie Pavelle - Forget-me-not ~ Finding the forgotten species of climate-change Britain

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

8th June 2023 - Trio Paradis – Tango! A Wrap-up Concert

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

8th June 2023 - Trio Paradis – Tango! A Wrap-up Concert

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

8th June 2023 - Trio Paradis – Tango! A Wrap-up Concert

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

8th June 2023 - Trio Paradis – Tango! A Wrap-up Concert

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

8th June 2023 - Trio Paradis – Tango! A Wrap-up Concert

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

8th June 2023 - Trio Paradis – Tango! A Wrap-up Concert

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

8th June 2023 - Trio Paradis – Tango! A Wrap-up Concert

Ilminster Literary Festival, Waterstones

Marcus from Waterstones

Ilminster Literary Festival, Waterstones

Marcus from 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

Writing Competition 2019

Writing Competition 2019

Writing Competition 2019