The Hay Festival, which runs every spring, is held in a farmer’s field in the charming town of Hay-on-Wye. Now in its 32nd year, it’s grown to become the U.K.’s largest book festival, attracting thousands of people. Carole Cadwalladr, the Observer journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica story, says it’s a beautiful setting — though as someone who grew up in a Welsh town by Cardiff she may be slightly biased. The Hay Festival now hosts events in Mexico, Spain, Peru and Colombia. And with about 100,000 books expected to be sold at this year’s festival, he’s obviously not alone with that sentiment.

Source: National Post June 05, 2019 14:48 UTC