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
Iain Reid my Road Trip with Grandma" in 2013. His debut novel, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things", was published in 2016. It is being adapted info a film for Netflix by Charlie Kaufman. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. Iain Reid Iain Reid (b. ca. 1980) is a Canadian writer, who won the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2015. Reid established his writing career by publishing articles and columns in national magazines and newspapers following his college graduation. He drew the attention of the "National Post", garnering a weekly column assignment. In 2015 he began appearing in US magazine "The New Yorker".