Hay: Landscape, Literature and a Town of BooksThe border town of Hay on Wye is famous for two things: the annual Festival of Literature (now in its 31st year) and its stunning location. Jim Saunders new book is a photographic record and words about Hay on Wye, its environs and people. The result is a record of the relationship in which a landscape of great natural beauty shapes a people, and a people shape a very special place. Jim Saunders is a photographer based in Knighton. He is the author of

Kathryn Simmonds was born in Hertfordshire and worked in children’s publishing before taking a creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia in 2002

as well as a prolific writer of short stories

who was born in 1902

depressing

" Fried also collaborated with his wife

and American writers have appeared in the Irish Times

by Muhammad Siddiq

His translation of the poems of Egils Saga is an Everyman Modern Classic

He provides a frank and vivid account of the many-sided realities of life as a West Indian in Britain in the 20th century

The author confesses to having been influenced by Zbigniew Herbert and Flann O'Brien at the same time

What happened to all the old relationships

he is also the Royal Literary Fund Writer for Queen Mary College University of London