Here’s a our first short list of confirmed names for the 2012 Hay Festival.  Simon Callow was announced on the official Twitter on Boxing day and both Hilary Mantel and Tim Minchin are on sale on the official Hay site.  We’ve already mentioned the singing duo Paper Aeroplanes on this blog.  We can’t absolutely guarantee that the others on this list will be threre, but we are fairly sure we are right.  More official announcements are on their way at the end of the week.