Saturday 20 April, 10.30am. £6.50

Leaving from At Sarah's House, 40 High Street

Explore Ventnor and discover more about the colourful writers, poets and artists who made the town their home in the company of photographer David White, a keen walker and engaging raconteur.

He will be leading the Isle of Arts literary walk on Saturday 21 April, setting off from At Sarah's House, 40 High Street, Ventnor at 10.30am on Saturday 20 April.

David, whose career as a photographer has included assignments for all the top UK newspapers and glossy magazines, will take you around the places that would have been familiar to some of Ventnor's famous Victorian inhabitants and visitors.

This is a chance to find out where Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev started work on Fathers and Sons, where Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi holidayed and where the composer Edward Elgar spent his honeymoon. Expects some surprises among the familiar names who visited the town.

Along the way, David will also be revealing the history behind some of Ventnor's old buildings, comparing their original use and their use today.

This circular walk will take about an hour and a half. It returns to At Sarah's house for coffee, which is included in the ticket price.

Image: anterotesis under CC BY 2.0