Bookworms Make Hay Hay on Wye is a bookworm’s heaven nestled in the verdant valleys where England meets Wales. Even the town’s crumbling medieval castle has been turned into one of thirty or more bookstores. And as one might expect in a community with such scholarly aspirations, Hay-on-Wye recently became the twin town of Timbuktu, that ancient but impoverished centre of learning in sub-Saharan Africa...

Further north along the Welsh border lies St Deiniol’s, the private library of the magnificently eccentric nineteenth-century polymath Sir William Gladstone and today, arguably, Britain’s finest residential library. St Deiniol’s offers a rarefied but congenial retreat for the true booklover, within easy reach of the mountains, castles and coastline of North Wales.

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