COME BOOK SHOPPING IN THE BOOK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD 📚cosy town filled with bookstores! (hay-on-wye)✨

[Music] caught behind the nation blinds i had today i am on holiday as you can see this is not my usual location and we are gonna go visit a very special place so we're gonna go visit a town called hay on y this town is very special because it is the world's first book town or bookshop town so basically in this tiny little quaint town there's over 20 bookshops and now i don't think we're going to be able to visit them all today but we're going to go and we're gonna try and visit as many as we can so that is what today's video is gonna be it's gonna be come book shopping with me in the world's first bookshop town basically i'm really excited it looks so cute so pretty um and i hope we're gonna find some amazing books i don't think they're going to have many new releases i think it's going to be more like obscure older books that are maybe going to be picking up today but i'm just so excited it's literally been a dream of a place i've wanted to go to for so long so i thought i would bring you along with me and let's go visit the world's first bookshop town [Music] and we're here we're in hey and why let's go explore some bookshops okay so we're starting off here which is richard booth's bookshop and this is actually the first bookshop in hayne why so it's housed in a converted chapel it also has a cafe here and a cinema and it has all types of books there's new releases second hand books older books so i am just so excited to go inside and see what kind of books they have so let's go [Music] when the sign out front said world's largest second-hand bookshop it was not kidding this was an absolute treasure trove of bookshop that i felt like i could just get lost for hours in it stretched so far back and was filled with pretty much every single book you can imagine i loved the vintage wooden bookshelves and decor the creaky floorboards it felt so comfortable and homely they had a really great mix of new releases but also secondhand books and lots of super old vintage books that i had to very much resist not buying 20 of just for the aesthetic this was where the book town all began and it truly felt like such a wonderful bookshop and i wish i had spent a bit longer in there it was the first one we visited and i wish that i had yeah spent longer in that one [Music] [Music] so i absolutely loved it in there i loved like all the wooden bookshelves and everything in there i picked up sleep by ciel taylor which i've heard a lot of good things about this was only three pounds it's obviously second hand but it doesn't look it at all so i think this is such a steal to get in there next we're at eddie man books which i've heard so many good things about from so many people if i'm honest this is probably one of the bookshelves i'm most excited to visit i've heard that they have a lot of new releases for like really low prices like half price so i am scared i'm going to walk out of your 10 bucks but let's just see so this was one of my favorite book shops we visited i was honestly shocked at the prices at some of the brand new books in here i truly don't know how they do it but it was so hard not to add like 10 more books to my already overflowing tbr what i loved most about this shop was all the little necks and tiny sections of the shop there was a bat cave a sci-fi room and each room kind of had its own aesthetic and vibe and that really made for a super unique shopping experience every time i thought this shop couldn't surprise me it did it again and i'm sure if i went back i would discover even more surprises there [Music] so in addie round books i got a special edition of the night circus which is one of my favorite books i was so affordable look how cool the cover is isn't it cool yes it is now i actually need to collect myself we're gonna go into murder and mayhem which is just literally across from any man books i am scared i'm going to spend all my money in here as a lot of you all know murder mystery and thrillers are like my favorite genre so i am scared that i'm going to spend all my money and buy like 50 bucks but if i do it's okay this was of course another one of my favorite bookshops we visited it was pretty much a murder mystery reader's dream they had these amazing old vintage editions of agatha christie books but i didn't let myself buy any because i know if i bought one i'd have to buy them all i know myself well enough not to let that happen but if you love crime fiction detective fiction horror this is absolutely somewhere you need to visit it was so amazing and the shop was incredibly well themed i felt like i was stepping into a crime ranter's brain [Music] okay so in murder mayhem i managed to restrain myself i only got one book and it's the devil in the white city this has been on my tbr for like one of the longest times i have any books and i know it's about the chicago world fair and a murderer that was like um at large during that time it's like non-fiction so i heard a lot of good things about it and again it was super affordable now at green inc booksellers which is one of my favorite like storefronts it's one of like the newest books i think that have opened up in the area recently and i think it's like such a stylish storefront so we're gonna go look at this one next [Music] this was such a lovely bookshop it had a little bit of a different vibe to some of the others because it is newer but i really liked that change of pace again this shop just seemed to be never ending which you don't expect from the outside but i kept discovering something that surprised me like some of these gorgeous vintage books and in there i picked up this bookshop tour guide book which i was so excited when i spotted as it could help me do more videos like this [Music] okay so next we're gonna pop into hey on my booksellers which i think has one of my favorite store friends i just think it looks super cute and quaint [Music] i loved this bookshop because there were literally books everywhere you looked piles on the floor bookshelves up to the ceiling it just had this quaint old worldy charm to it and it was so fun to explore all of these bookshops are like treasure troves like i literally have no idea where to look i didn't end up buying a book here though because i got a bit overwhelmed with all the choice okay so next is adi man annex which is owned by the same people as admin books and murder and mayhem a lot of people say this is actually one of their favorite book shops it has the best selection of books so i'm hoping i'm gonna find some books i really want in here oh my goodness what a wonderful bookshop this was it's so hard to pick a favorite because they're all so wonderful this probably had my favorite selection of all the bookstores they had so many incredible books they had lots of penguin cloth bound editions for under half price [Music] i actually brought two books in here this lovely hardback edition of the essex serpent which i've always had my eye on and villette by charlotte bronte to add to my cloth bound collection [Music] and then this is the honesty bookshop this is outside this is kind of near um addie man annex and these books are just outside and you can just they trust you that's why it's called the honesty bookshelf they trust you to pay a pound for any books that you pick up so there's a really cool selection of stuff out here and you could literally fill a suitcase up with these books if you wanted to wow [Music] okay so next is hey cinema bookshop and i think this is probably the biggest book shop in hay it's converted out of an old cinema and there's over 200 000 books in here i can't even wrap my head around how many 200 000 books is but i'm really excited to go take a look i can't i actually don't know why what is awaiting me inside this treasure trove of books [Music] okay so i think this bookstore was actually my favorite this one's my favorite she says about all the bookstores but this bookstore was just enormous and i could have spent hours and hours there they had like every book you could imagine lots of second-hand books and new ones at like super affordable prices i absolutely loved it and i loved the look of the book i discovered there [Music] i loved the selection in there i thought they had like a lot of different books and i've seen the other bookshops so if you are going because this one's a little bit more out the way so if you've gone around a lot those book shops and want to see some different kind of books i would recommend coming to this one i was having a look around and i couldn't see anything like straight away that i definitely wanted but then i stumbled across the dance of the serpents by oscar do muriel marie muriel and i was drawn in by the cover i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie i was drawn in by the cover but then i read on the back that it is a victorian mystery which we all know that is my niche that's like my favorite thing and i did look at it and it's like the sixth and a detective mystery series but usually with these kind of things you don't have to read all of them like you can just read like any random one in the series so i'm hoping that will be the case for me and i'm very intrigued the mystery thriller victorian my perfect book [Music] okay so that was our trip to hayon y i hope you guys enjoyed watching it as much as i enjoyed being there it was absolutely amazing like i was in heaven so i just thought to quickly end the video we'd run through the books that i got but first my family were there and they also got books and i want to show you this book that my dad got my mum oh my god is that bird inside no i believe it's is it a folio society one it comes oh my god comes in the case like this look so this is north and south by elizabeth gaskell and like look how gorgeous this is never have i wanted to read north and south more than i do in this moment it is just absolutely stunning i hope that one day i am rich and i can have an entire library of folio society books because just absolutely stunning i got sleep for three pound by ciel taylor this is a close circle isolated mystery my favorite thing then i got a special edition of the night circus which is one of my favorite books so this isn't one i'll be reading but it's only about four pounds so i just thought you can't go wrong like you can't you can't blame a girl for buying an edition of her favorite book when she sees it sure jan then i picked up the devil in the white city this is a book i have eyed up for so long and i'm really excited to finally own it oh i got bookshop tours of britain so if this video goes well i would love to do more like bookshop visits and tours of different areas in the uk so let me know if that's something you're interested in because this book could kind of be a way of helping me figure that out then i bought the essex serpent i really love this edition listen i'm from essex so i feel like i should just buy it and i also got villette by charlotte bronte i only got this because they had these editions of the penguin cloth band classics for 6.95 which usually they're 14.99 so that is a ridiculous price they mostly only had jane austen and for jane austen i'm collecting different editions but i'm collecting the rest in these editions but they didn't really have much other than jane austen so i got this by charlotte bronte probably not gonna read it for ages but i'm glad i have it in my collection then i got the dance of the serpent which i know nothing about but because it's a victorian mystery with a detective i was very intrigued i also got a secret book i'm trying to go like that you're naughty naughty you're teasing me you're naughty naughty her video which will probably be coming next month so stay tuned it'll be a very funny video i can't really buy someone across that book in the bookshop and then finally my dad did get me um the lives of saints by leigh bardugo he's been a bit obsessed with uh six of crows and crooked kingdom lately he saw this in a bookshop obviously recognized the name leigh bardugo and decided to get it for me it is kind of like mythology about different uh grisha verse saints so i'm excited to read this at some point and yeah that was our book haul for hey on y honestly it was just like a dream of a place i absolutely loved it so much i hope you guys enjoyed coming along with me if you're going to the end of this video comment a book stack emoji and let me know where your favorite bookshop is i'd love to know what your favorite bookshop is so maybe one day i could visit it and yeah thank you so so much for watching this video i'll see you very soon in another one bye [Music] you