num_pages: 224
description: 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 inhabitants—and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us.
language: English
title: Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
titlecomplete: Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
genres: British Literature, Autobiography, Books About Books, History, Travel, Humor, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2768
places: Wales, Breckonshire, Wales, Hay-on-Wye, Breckonshire, Wales
publisher: Bloomsbury USA