The Whitney Revels...
... a ten-day house-party in Whitney Court, an Edwardian pile in the Welsh borders, just over the river from Hay-on-Wye. The Revels take place during the Hay Festival (this year between 27 May - 5 June 2005), itself a deliciously fecund gathering of writers, thinkers, musicians, foodies, politicians, film-makers, luvvies, lushes, punters and liggers.

And on the edge, in our pleasure palace, the Whitney Revellers primp, party and perform into the small hours, making ours the Hay Festival's exclusive default after-party every night, and an impossibly beautiful Wye Valley refuge during the day. We're also the official Festival home for Zembla, the bold new literary magazine which soft-launched here in 2003, and which will be throwing its annual Hayfest party here on 28 May 2005.

CLICK FOR PRESS LINKS: Harpers and Queen voted ours one of the Ten Best Country House Parties of 2003. Gillian Anderson seemed to agree. We've been celebrated by John Walsh in The Word, by Erotic Review Editrice Rowan Pelling in the Sindy and by the diarists of The Independent andThe Telegraph.

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