carnival

Sir Stephen Fry, Hay Festival president, said there was "space for everyone in this carnival of ideas".

Among the incredible variety of costumes and performances, Vila Isabel's ghosts clad completely in white were a counterpoint to the kaleidoscopic costumes typical of Rio's carnival.

While that novel chronicled the decline of a Floridian carnival family clinging to family legend and land, her new novel, “The Antidote,” looks westward to the fictional Nebraska town of Uz during the 1930s.

From dazzling costumes to exuberant parties, Trinidad's carnival is often dubbed "the greatest show on Earth".

A market has now been closed and a street carnival in the city centre will not take place.