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richard booth’s bookshop café
breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch

open wednesday to saturday 9.30am to 4.30pm

sunday 11.00am to 4.00pm

open daily during the Hay Festival         

                                                                                                                                                               

breakfast/lunch

toasted breads with grapefruit marmalade, honey or lemon curd

 buttermilk pancakes, maple syrup, whipped yoghurt

fried egg with spiced hash brown

spinach and chard frittata, peppery leaves and sour cream

welsh rarebit, beetroot and orange chutney

chickpea, new potato and chard soup, sourdough toast

warm puy lentil, goat's cheese and beetroot salad, radish, herb vinaigrette

parsnip, carrot, pak choi and coconut curry, braised basmati rice

thai fishcakes, crispy asian slaw, hot and sour dipping sauce

beef burger, pepper and tomato relish, mustard mayonnaise

...with gruyère cheese

add to any dish .... bacon or chorizo

 

on the side

hand cut chips, aioli, brown sauce or ketchup

mixed salad

bread, sea salt, oil

something sweet

chocolate chip or oatmeal syrup cookie

chocolate truffle

cinnamon bun

lemon cake, cream

honeycomb brownie, cream

iced nougat with strawberry compote

vanilla or dark chocolate or white chocolate and fudge ripple ice cream

affogato

something savoury                                                                                                     

ragstone goat's cheese and/or red leicester cheese, piccalilli and oatcakes

herbed almonds

Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema

Opening May 2012

Richard Booth’s Bookshop is the largest bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, the Town of Books, and the cultural hub of the town. Founded in 1962 by Richard Booth, who made Hay world-famous as the capital of the second-hand book trade, an elegant façade with its glazed animalier tiles leads to a vast three-floor emporium with hundreds of thousands of secondhand, antiquarian and new books.

We buy and sell books from a wide range of subjects including: Literature ● History ● Natural History ● Theology ● Science ● Art & Music ● Children's ● Modern Languages ● Classics ● Anglo-Welsh ● Topography ● Science Fiction and more.  Open all year except Easter Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Recent Acquisitions
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We never know when a little treasure of a book is going to appear on our shelves.  Our shelves include first editions, beautifully bound sets of volumes and rare books; just a few examples are shown here.

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Johnson's DictionaryPincher MartinElemens de L’Histoire de France’Wild Olives. Life in MajorcaPersonal Memoirs of U.S. GrantLa Deffence et Illustration de la Lange FrancoyseTycoon’s Death Bed
Johnson's Dictionary
Title: Johnson's Dictionary Author: Published:1778 Price:£2,000.00 6th Edition, 1778. Remarkably free from foxing or browning.
Pincher Martin
Title: Pincher Martin Author:William Golding Published:1st UK Edition, 1956. Price:£250 Review copy with publisher’s slip loosely inserted. Very good, remarkably clean tight sound square copy. Good dust wrapper; chipped with very slight loss to head of spine. Overall impression is very good. This highly desirable 1st UK edition volume is interesting as a review copy with no evidence of previous owners and no price-clipping.
Elemens de L’Histoire de France’
Title: Elemens de L’Histoire de France’ Author:L’Abbé Millot Published:5th Edition 1783 Price:£125 In 3 volumes. Original leather binding with marbled endpapers and gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Some wear and bumped corners to all volumes but all contents are clean and bindings tight. Good condition for age. Previous owner’s bookplates present on inside front covers of each volume.
Wild Olives. Life in Majorca
Title: Wild Olives. Life in Majorca Author:William Graves Published: Price:£9.50 This is an absorbing book which should certainly be read by anyone with an interest in Robert Graves, written by his eldest son from his second marriage.
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Title: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Author:U.S. Grant Published:1885 Price:£850 Two volumes, in a much sought after binding, that would enhance any serious American Civil War collection.
La Deffence et Illustration de la Lange Francoyse
Title: La Deffence et Illustration de la Lange Francoyse Author:Joachim du Bellay Published:1948 Price:£50 A critical appraisal with notes by Henri Chamard, reprinted in 1948, of this classic text from 1549 by the poet du Bellay. It is considered to be the manifesto of the literary movement known as La Pléiade, who were concerned with ways of enriching the French language.
Tycoon’s Death Bed
Title: Tycoon’s Death Bed Author:George Bellairs Published: Price:£75 George Bellairs was the nom de plume of Harold Blundell (1902-1985), a crime writer and bank manager born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire, who settled in the Isle of Man on retirement. He wrote more than 50 books, most featuring the detective Inspector Littlejohn. He also wrote four novels under the alternative pseudonym Hilary Landon. His first novel Littlejohn on Leave was published in 1941.
Events
Jack Harris in Concert 30th May 2012 at 7.30pm Jack Harris, Singer-Songwriter.

Jack, who hails from Builth Wells, is a familiar face in this part of Wales and in February produced his debut album, 'The Flame and the Pelican', songs from which will be included in this intimate performance.   Click here for more information about Jack.  Tickets £5.
Hay on Film 25 - 27 May 2012 at Richard Booth's Bookshop Cinema The inaugural event of the Hay Film School brings together esteemed cinematographers, directors, designers and technicians from all over the UK for a celebration of the art and craft of film-making.

See Cinema site for more details or go to www.hayfilmschool.co.uk.  Tickets £10 per event.   Box Office:  01497 821526