James Hanning: The Bookseller of Hay, Gebunden

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Richard Booth was a divisive figure.

Beyond the briefest of encounters in the street, I never really met him.

What follows is based on written material and the recollections of others. And among those, often there is little consensus. To some he was a benign, paternal, swashbuckling advocate for what his father's generation would have called 'the common man'. To others he was a shambolic, egotistical, capricious, unreliable spendthrift.

If the reader is able to draw more settled conclusions than I am about a highly idiosyncratic figure, I am delighted.

Without Booth, Hay would be just another border town. His influence remains immense, and his story
worth telling.