Addyman Books

Derek Addyman and Anne Brichto 1st opened Addyman Books in 1987, in a ten-foot room at the Blue Boar Inn in Hay on Wye. Only six months later success shunted us into bigger premises on nearby Lion Street. This rapidly expanded into the well-loved burrow of books that is still to be found there today. In 1997 we opened a bookshop specialising in detective fiction, Murder and Mayhem, just across the road. And five years later, the jewel in the crown of the Addyman triumvirate was opened - The Addyman Annexe.