Famously the ‘town of books’ and home to the Hay Literature Festival, Hay-on-Wye is a unique rural town in Wales, UK. Noakes uncovers the many quirks of this quirky place and explores its rural hinterland: the Black Mountains to the south, Herefordshire to the east, Brecon to the west, and Kilvert’s Clyro to the north. A book full of unexpected discoveries.