Booth, an Oxford graduate with family connections to the area, opened a secondhand bookstore here in 1961 in a former movie theater. There were plenty of vacant buildings in the declining town at ...

Richard Booth was a classic British eccentric who wore a cardboard crown and declared his hometown’s independence. But his showman’s eye for a headline put Hay-on-Wye on the map, transforming ...

Over the past six decades bookseller and entrepreneur Richard Booth, who has died aged 80, helped to transform Hay-on-Wye, a sleepy Welsh market town, into a vibrant “town of books”, inspired ...

He transformed a fading Welsh town into a tourist magnet by buying books in bulk from colleges, libraries, defunct wholesalers and collectors’ estates. By Sam Roberts Richard Booth, who ...

Richard Booth was a classic British eccentric who wore a cardboard crown and declared his hometown’s independence. But his showman’s eye for a headline put Hay-on-Wye on the map, transforming ...