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
Debut novel earliest attested usage of "first novel" is from 1876. However, the term is much older, with instances going back to at least 1800. The "Oxford English Dictionary" doesn't have an entry for "debut novel." The earliest usage of "debut novel" in the Google Books database is 1930 (). The Google Books Ngram Viewer shows it becoming more widely used after about 1980, gaining in popularity since. Debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure