Home
Artists Gallery
Buy from Rye
Celebrate in Rye
Coastal & Rural
Creative Kids
Creative Leisure
Film Drama & Music
Food & Drink
Heritage Rye
Literary Rye
Visiting Rye
|
E F Benson Novel |
|
 
|
|
The Judgment Books. A Story.
New release
|
|
Rare Books Online |
|
Rare Book Dealer and Rye resident Tony Mulholland is
now offering a range of rare and second hand books for sale online on
his new website.
More
|
|
Vita Sackville West |
  |
|
Visit
Sissinghurst Castle, just a few miles from Rye, was the home of Vita
Sackville West. Visit the house and the wonderful gardens
created by Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicholson.
|
|
Literary Rye
|
Frederick Lees - The Malayan Life of Ferdach O'Haney
BUY ONLINE |
|
A trilogy of novels, ‘The Malayan Life of Ferdach O’Haney’,
by local author Frederck Lees is now
available to buy online encapsulates much of Lees’ Malayan
experience. As well as writing and drawing cartoons, Freddie is
leading a new project to develop a theatre and cultural centre
in Rye which celebrates Rye's connections with playwright John
Fletcher
Biograpy
|
|
Henry James 1843-1916 |
Visit
Lamb House |
Visit
Lamb House in Rye, home to writer
Henry James from 1898-1916.
The Lamb family were the greatest power in Rye 150 years but the
house they built is more famous as the home of the expatriate American
novelist Henry James.
See Henry James
for details of opening times of Lamb House and more on the
writing and friends of Henry James.
Henry James let Lamb House to tenants for six months in 1904 when he
returned to America.
See letters
|
Open Thurs & Sat
2.00-6.00
19th March 
to 9th October
|
|
|
E. F. Benson & Rye Walks 2008 - 10th Year. Mapp & Lucia |
|
|
E F Benson lived at Lamb House, after Henry James. E F Benson
wrote Mapp & Lucia series, based in Tillingham (Rye) and the books
have been serialised on BBC.
See
E
F Benson to find out more about his books and
Rye Walks.
Mapp And Lucia Collection - The Complete 1st & 2nd Series [1985]
|
|
Local Rye resident,
John Ryan, creator of Pugwash books |
|
John Ryan was the creator of the famous 'Captain Pugwash' series lived
in Rye. John's first Captain Pugwash title was published in 1957.
See John Ryan to read about the famous Pugwash
books.
|
  
|
|
|
Visit Bateman's - Home of Rudyard Kipling |
|
Visit
Batemans, the wonderful Jacobean home of Rudyard Kipling owned by
the National Trust.
See original illustrations of the Jungle Book, walk in the delightful
gardens by the River Dudwell and see Kipling's 1928 Phantom 1
Rolls-Royce. Find out
More on Kipling
|
 
|
|
H G Wells |
|
H G Wells lived in Space House, Sandgate
from 1901 to 1909. Wells wrote several of his best known works
here, including Kipps, Tono-Bungay and Ann Veronica, and entertained many
leading writers of the time, including Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Arnold
Bennett and Joseph Conrad who were also regular visitors at
Lamb House
in Rye.
|
  |
|
Russell Thorndyke |
|
Brother of Dame Sybil Thorndike, famous for
Doctor Syn - A Tale Of The Romney Marsh;
(1915 version set in 1795–1805 with pirates and smuggling).
Russell Thorndyke, Dame Sybil and Noel Coward all had homes
around Romney Marsh.
|
|
John Fletcher (1579–1625). visit Fletcher's House Tea Shop |
|
Jacobean playwright and solicitor , he was among the most
prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his
lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled
Shakespeare's. Visit Fletchers
House Tea Shop in Lion Street, home of John Fletcher.
Enjoy a cream tea in the wonderful Tudor beamed building.
|
  |
|
Rumer Godden |
|
Rumer Godden, who died in 1998 at aged 90, was a novelist of
many gifts: she could see the world through the eyes of children
with a vivid and sometimes uncomfortable realism; she excelled
at portraying the sensuous atmosphere and contradictions of
India in the last days of the Raj; Born in Eastbourne, they
lived for a while in Lamb House in Rye, once home to Henry
James
|
  |
|
Visit Charleston |
|
Visit Charleston, just a few miles from Rye, was the home
and country meeting place of Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grants and
other members of the Bloomsbury Group.
See Bloomsbury
Set for more
|
|
|
Visit Writer's Homes |
|
Conrad & Joan Aiken
E F Benson
Bloomsbury Set
Henry James
Derek Jarman
Rudyard Kipling
Christopher Lloyd
Ellen Terry
Vita Sackville West
Edith Wharton
|
|
Martello Books Rye |
 |
|
Rye's traditional, local bookshop with a friendly service.
26 High Street
|
|
Living Writers in Rye |
|
Roy Apps, BAFTA
winning children's author,
scriptwriter, dramatist and lyricist
Freddy
Lees. Books include Arthuriad of Catumandus, and a local novel The Rape of Rye plus
comedy cartoons!
|
Conrad Aiken.
|
|
1889-1973. The American poet, novelist and critic Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer Prize
winner, bought Jeake's House in 1924 and the Men's Club in 1928. He was
visited here by T.S. Eliot, E.F.Benson, the artists
Paul Nash and
Malcolm Lowry, and Radclyffe Hall.
Selected Poems by
Conrad Aiken. More
|
|
Joan Aiken 1924-2004 |
|
Daughter of Conrad Aiken, Joan Aiken and was born in Jeakes House in
Rye. She has written many well read books including
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
and The Haunting of Lamb House (Thorndike Press Large Print Buckinghams) .
More
Jeakes House in Rye is now a hotel where you can stay when you visit
Rye.
More
|
|
Edith Wharton |
|
Friend of Henry James and frequent visitor to Rye Edith Wharton
is a famous American writer
More
|
|
Radcliffye Hall |
|
Best known for The Well of Loneliness (Wordsworth Classics) the only one of her eight novels to have
overt lesbian themes. Lived in Rye in the 1930's.
|
|
series of books, a number of which were set in
Rye, including 
and 