The Telegraph Hay Festival 2012
For 25 years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking. Hay is, in Bill Clinton's phrase, 'The Woodstock of the mind'.
Hay Festival was founded around a kitchen table in 1987 and continues to attract the most exciting writers, filmmakers, comedians, politicians and musicians to inspire, delight and entertain. For 10 days in May, Hay is full of stories, ideas, laughter and music.
This page brings together all of We Love This Book's Hay Festival 2012 coverage in one place blogs, interviews, reviews from authors appearing at the festival and events.
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Callow on Dickens: A Man for Today
by Simon Callow
Two hundred years after Charles Dickens' birth, Simon Callow celebrates a very modern man
The Suspicions of Ms. Summerscale
Kate Summerscale's new book exposes the scandalous case of a Victorian woman taken to court when her diaries about an affair with a married man were uncovered
two sides of dickens
Claire Tomalin reveals the tragedy and triumphs of Charles Dickens' life
Targeting Tirpitz
Historian Patrick Bishop on the story behind the sinking of the Tirpitz battleship in the Second World War
The Passion of Peter Florence
by Ed Wood
The director of Hay talks digital, bookselling and being 'fundamentally unemployable'
Jung Chang: China Revealed
by Ed Wood
The author of Wild Swans on finding out the truth about Mao's regime
Hislop the Greek heroine
Victoria Hislop on being adored in Greece, Ian Hislop as an editor and her sweeping new novel The Thread
Lionel Shriver's New Republic
by Keira Brown
Journalist, activist and Orange Prize-winner Lionel Shriver unveils the truth about her controversial novel The New Republic
dangerous liaisons
Sex and lies fill Alan Hollinghurst's intriguing novel, The Stranger's Child, portraying a century of love and loss. Adam Mars-Jones meets the author.
Andrew Miller's Pure and filthy Paris
by Ed Wood
Andrew Miller went into the fascinating real-life story behind his Costa Award-winning novel Pure at the Hay Festival
Joanne Harris: Chocolat and Peaches
Chocolat author Joanne Harris talks about revisiting Lansquenet in her new novel Peaches for Monsieur le Curé
Rushdie feisty and forthright at Hay
by Ed Wood
Never one to shirk controversy, a lively Salman Rushdie was open and informative on his peak-period novels and the fatwa
