The only full guidebook treatment of this charming Welsh border town, famous for its secondhand bookstores and annual book festival. Fully researched to Blue Guides standards, this book covers the Hay-on-Wye's past and present, including write-ups of each of its thirty bookshops, plus short itineraries in the beautiful surrounding area. Color photographs and maps throughout

Blue Guide Hay-on-Wye (Travel Series)

Travel

Saikia, Robin

Europe

Blue Guides Limited of London

A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series. Home to the prestigious Venice Film Festival, the Venice Lido was once one of the most glamorous beach resorts in Europe: elegance, comfort, and style remain on this separate island, a ten-minute vaporetto ride across the lagoon from Venice itself. More personal than guidebooks, the Travel Monographs, published by the Blue Guides, are well-written, erudite literature on destinations.

The Venice Lido (Travel Monograph Series)

Drink & Think Venice: The Story of Venice in Twenty-six Bars and Cafés

In May 1939 Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, a Tory MP, formed an anti-Semitic secret society he called The Right Club. Many of its members were Nazi sympathisers and an inner core were politicians, peers of the realm, prominent socialites and officers in the armed forces. Ramsay recorded their names in a stout, red, leather-bound ledger that was seized by Special Branch in May 1940. It came to be known as The Red Book and its contents are published here in full for the first time. Robin Saikia provides expert analysis of Ramsay's life and times and a full A-Z of Right Club members with illuminating biographies where known. The book highlights the evils of right wing extremism, pointing out that some Right Club members were the founding fathers of racist groups still active today. Robin Saikia was educated at Winchester College and Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Blue Guide Hay-on-Wye, a cultural and historical exploration of the Anglo-Welsh border town famed for its bookdealers and as the venue of the annual Guardian Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts. His latest book, The Venice Lido, is published by Blue Guides this summer. Forthcoming titles for Foxley Books include Hitler's Venice and Hitler's London.

The Red Book - The Membership List of the Right Club - 1939

History

Foxley Books

A Very Fine Cat Indeed: A Dramatic Monologue

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Poussin Publications

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