WHAT WAS the Bedford Square Book Bang?
Fifty years ago, on 28th May 1971, the first British literary festival was launched.
The Bedford Square Book Bang was the brainchild of the dandyish Martyn Goff, bookseller son of a Russian furrier in Hampstead.
Goff ran the Ibis Bookshop in Banstead, Surrey, and on the side wrote novels, some with daringly
