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

winter opening hours

open tuesday to saturday 9.30am to 4.30pm

sunday 11.00am to 4.00pm

 

tuesday and wednesday: light bites
thursday through sunday: full menu

                                                                                                                                                               

breakfast/lunch

toasted breads with plum and vanilla jam, honey, seville orange marmalade or ginger curd

 buttermilk pancakes, vanilla whipped yoghurt, maple syrup

fried egg with ham hock and hash browns, wilted spinach, brown sauce

welsh rarebit, beetroot and orange chutney

split pea soup with pancetta, creme fraiche, sourdough toast

warm brussel sprout salad with almonds, smoked potato and blood orange

potato gnocchi with jerusalem artichoke sauce, kale, parmesan, truffle oil

deep fried chicken with tomato, black eyed bean and oregano stew

 

 

on the side

hand cut chips, aioli or ketchup

mixed leaf salad

bread, sea salt, rapeseed oil

something sweet

chocolate chip or oatmeal syrup cookie

chocolate truffle

spelt and ale cake, cream

dark chocolate brownie,cream

lime creme fraiche tart

homemade vanilla ice cream, beetroot and chocolate or hawthorn and rosehip sorbet

affogato

something savoury                                                                                                     

neal's yard goat's curd and/or somerset mature cheddar, cranberry and apple chutney, oatcakes

smoked almonds

 

 

Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema

The Cinema is open Friday to Sunday.  Please check in window for current screenings, call 01497 820322, or email cinema@boothbooks.co.uk,

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 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’Personal 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.
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
Keep Calm and Flexible Sunday and Tuesday Prana Yoga and Meditation Tuesday 11.30 am to 12.30 pm Sunday 11.00 am to 12.15 pm with qualified instructor Tashi Mannox at Richard Booth's Bookshop studio, Brook Street.

Suitable for beginners and enriching for advanced.

 

contact Tashi on 01497 831 167; tashi@tashimannox.com
Viniyoga Classes Tuesday, 7.00 to 8.30 pm with Mike Young, qualified practitioner in Richard Booth's Bookshop Studio, Brook Street.

Contact Mike on 07913 864744; info@yogaskies.co.uk.

 
Pilates Thursdays, 6.00 to 8.00pm In Richard Booth's Bookshop Studio, Brook Street.

Clare Walters, STOTT Pilates Certified Instructor, leads group classes and private tuition.

Call 07792 335460 to book a place.