Bookseller of Hay Nov 2025 and itinerant worker William Leckie

and itinerant worker William Leckie with his young daughter Mary

Scrap Wall Hanging and Martina's famous Snail Mail Art

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A novel of searing insight and lyrical beauty

Bookseller of Hay Nov 2025 and itinerant worker William LeckieIn 1962, a young man left university without a degree and, for want of anything better to do, bought a small shop in an obscure market town on the edge of the Brecon Beacons. Within fifteen years, largely through force of personality, Richard Booth had created the world's largest second hand bookshop, attracting thousands of visitors from across the globe to Hay on Wye, on the Welsh border. The Bookseller of Hay tells the tale of an extraordinary,