Edmund de Waal: tales of tiny wonders
Edmund de Waal is not just an artist of renown but also a fine storyteller, as a Hay festival audience discovered when he told them the tale behind his extraordinary family memoir
Falling for Roddy Doyle
The Hay festival has opened my eyes to Roddy Doyle in the flesh – but where to begin with him on the page?
Hay festival 2010: Oxfam wants your old books
Oxfam is aiming to raise £1.2m through donated books. One of its shop managers, John Connolly, explains why you should contribute
Maldives president calls for direct action over climate change
President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives told a Hay festival audience that grassroots 'street action' was needed to change the focus of the debate on climate change in the US
Hay festival temptations: heaven is other people’s books
Sarah Crown: My determination to mug up on the authors I'm meeting is overpowered by the lure of a little row of paperbacks
Andes by Michael Jacobs
Benedict Allen finds an impressive survey avoids the dreaded 'inner journey'
Ian McEwan collects award for novel that tackles climate change
At the Guardian Hay festival, Ian McEwan receives Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for his new novel Solar
Hay fever: what I’m up to at the Guardian Hay festival
Charlotte Higgins: Watching stuff, writing, chairing, eating, reading, breathing... more or less in that order
Send us your Hay festival pictures!
Send us your best shots from the Guardian Hay festival and we'll pick the best ones to appear on the siteHead to the Guardian's Hay festival Flickr page
My prize-winning porker
The winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize is rewarded with a Gloucester Old Spot pig. But what happens to them after the ceremony?
Stranded in Beirut, the Arab literary world takes wing
After four days of literary exchange in Beirut, the writers and editors still grounded by the volcano are forging links that will open up the world to Arabic literature
Overthrowing the King of Hay
Sean Dodson: Richard Booth's entrepreneurship saw him open the town's first secondhand bookshop and help create an economic boom. So why was he 'executed' last weekend?
The Wire re-up: season two, episode two – David Simon hits the Hay
SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who have already seen The Wire in its entirety. This week: class in The Wire, and David Simon's appearance at the Hay literary festival
Vince Cable tells Hay festival he does not want to be chancellor under Labour
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, who called for Alistair Darling to step down over expenses, says there are no short cuts to chancellor's job