Beaminster all round, Wi' hedges, reachèn up between A thousand vields o' zummer green. </poem> It is a location for part of the story for the post-apocalyptic novel The Day of the Triffids. Samuel Hearne explorer, naturalist and writer grew up in Beaminster. Beaminster is the adopted hometown of actor Martin Clunes, and was where singer PJ Harvey went to school. Mat Follas had his first restaurant The Wild Garlic in the town square, though in 2013 it was moved to larger premises elsewhere. Beaminster is also home of Lynne Reid Banks, author of "The L-Shaped Room" and "The Indian in
The Room (novel) reviewer has expressed similar feelings, with claims that reading the novel made him physically sick. It has been described as "a terrifying journey into the darkest corners of the psyche." A section of "The Room" is used in Richard Linklater's "Waking Life", where a red-faced man in a jail cell describes in vivid detail the abuse he intends to inflict once he is released. The Room (novel) The Room is the second novel by Hubert Selby, Jr., first published in 1971. The novel centers on a nameless petty criminal locked in a remand cell, and explores his feelings of impotence,