Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DF
The town's old picture house on Castle Street, turned into a second-hand bookshop in 1965, which makes it, by its own account, the longest established of Hay's big bookshops. The stock runs to about 200,000 volumes on every subject, priced from 50p to thousands of pounds, and there are bargain shelves outside in the garden at the front. Francis Edwards, antiquarian booksellers since 1855, trade from the same building. The shop says it opens every day of the year except Christmas Day and Easter Sunday, and stays open until 9pm during the festival.
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.
Hay's warren of a bookshop on Lion Street, trading since 1987.
Known for: English literature and modern first editions
Detective fiction, true crime and horror from the Addyman family, on Lion Street since 1997.
Known for: Crime fiction, green Penguins and Sherlock Holmes