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My Kingdom of Books: An Autobiography
This autobiography plots the highs and lows of Richard Booth's career in bookselling and his life outside it. From his first forays into the world of books to the chaotic story of the Kingdom of Hay and his stirring battles with bureaucrats and business enemies, the book describes a life lived to the full in bookshops and bibliotheques, bars and bedrooms.
Hardcover
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318 pages
Published
December 31st 1999
by Lolfa
(first published September 1999)
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Feb 09, 2008
John
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people interested in bookshops, eccentrics
We drank mulled wine with Mr. Booth in Hay-on-Wye some years ago. He is a genial man, and full of stories and opinions. His autobiography retells without embarrassment his creation of a kingdom of books and his missteps along the way, including the fire that burned down his castle. This is a quick read.
This was a very entertaining, heart warming and humourous insight into the life of Richard Booth, founder of the Hay on Wye Book Town, through his own words. Booth is open and honest about how he came to be in Hay and how he came to establish the book town and install himself as the King of Hay (evidently, like all great ideas, it started as a pub joke and went from there). He is honest about the mistakes he made along the way from buying ridiculous numbers of books (I know that feeling) to trus
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