The Nursery, Forest Road, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DT
The natural history specialist, a short walk south of the centre on Forest Road: around 15,000 books on natural history, the New Naturalist series, gardening, botany, entomology, ornithology and beekeeping, new, second-hand and antiquarian. Note the short Saturday: the shop closes at noon and does not open on Sunday.
Three floors of new and second-hand books in Hay's 1886 agricultural stores on Lion Street.
Known for: New, second-hand and antiquarian books across three floors
Hours: Monday to Saturday 9:30 to 17:30, Sunday 11:00 to 17:00; closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Easter Sunday.
A 1965 cinema conversion on Castle Street with around 200,000 second-hand books.
Known for: Second-hand, remaindered and antiquarian books on every subject
Hay's warren of a bookshop on Lion Street, trading since 1987.
Known for: English literature and modern first editions