Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside—to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabi…

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