{"id":384294,"date":"2025-08-30T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384294\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:04:10","slug":"the-bookseller-of-hay-richard-booth-is-the-wild-man-who-rewrote-the-literary-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384294\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bookseller of Hay: Richard Booth is the wild man who rewrote the literary map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/buy.geni.us\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3927&amp;articleId=b1244477&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FBookseller-Hay-James-Hanning%2Fdp%2F1472159780%2F%3Fascsubtag%3DES%7C1244477%7C1472159780\">Hanning\u2019s book<\/a> is fascinating and is full of larger-than-life characters such as Marianne Faithfull, Dudley Moore, Seamus Heaney, April Ashley (the model, dancer and socialite who was one of the earliest people to undergo gender realignment surgery), the borderline hoodlum Jim Rizek (who apparently pushed his luck too far with his crime bosses and ended up in the Arizona desert) and \u2014 tangentially \u2014 Mick Jagger. Booth\u2019s great coup, PR-wise, was announcing in 1977 that Hay-on-Wye had become independent, and would henceforth be ruled by a king, by the name of Richard Booth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hanning\u2019s book is fascinating and is full of larger-than-life characters such as Marianne Faithfull, Dudley Moore, Seamus Heaney,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[17588,3444,133317,77,133318,133316,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-384294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-book-review","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-dylan-jones","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hay","13":"tag-hay-festival","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115115974180391987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}