The Kingdom of Books

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. As micronations go, it was a fairly spurious one

Where there's imperfect control of some patch by a state, there may be some consequence of someone declaring a "micronation". But this was just a publicity stunt (on April Fool's Day) for his book-dealing.

The Hay Festival is certainly notable in British publishing. I think it's the efforts of the organisers over the years that have kept Hay as "the town of books" rather than people remembering Booth's declaration.