Many years ago, when I was a student, I fell in love with a book in the art college library. I couldn’t just get a copy for myself… so I went back time and again to look at it. The book was called simply, The Bolshoi, and it was full of photographs of wonderful sets and costumes for operas and ballets at this famous theatre in Moscow. It was published in Soviet Russia and imported and impossible to find a duplicate… or so I thought.
It was because of this book that I eventually visited Russia for myself… but I didn’t find it there either.
But in the meantime a family holiday took me to Hay on Wye. How I loved browsing through all the bookshops. Aladdin’s Cave was surely never so exciting. And near the end of the holiday I found a shop specialising in art books. I thought it was worth an idle browse. And there, on a shelf… not one, but TWO copies of the book!
And so it is with enormous pleasure that I prepare for my very first visit to the Hay Fever book festival.
There will be stories. There will be paint. There will be lots of fun and here are the details if you want to join me on June 2nd:
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