 Today I am on holiday as you can see this is not my usual location and we are going to go visit a very special place. We're going to go visit a town called Hayonwai. 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 think we're going to be able to visit them all today but we're going to go and we're going to try and visit as many as we can. So that is what today's video is going to be. It's going to be come book shopping with me in the world's first bookshop town basically. I'm really excited and it's so cute, so pretty and I hope we're going to 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 may be going to be picking up today but I'm just so excited. It's literally been a dream of a place that 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. We're in Hayonwai. 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 Hayonwai. 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, secondhand books, older books. So I am just so excited to go inside and see what kind of books I have so let's go. When the sign out front said world's largest secondhand bookshop it was not kidding. This was an absolute treasure trove of a 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 second hand 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 booktown 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 spent longer in that one. So I absolutely loved it in there. I love like all the wooden bookshelves and everything in there. I picked Up Sleep by C.L. Taylor which I've had a lot of good things about. This was only £3. It's obviously second hand but it doesn't look at all. So I feel like this is such a steal to get in there. Next we're at Addie Mann Books which I've heard so many good things about from so many people. If I'm honest this is probably one of the bookshops 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 here with 10 bucks but let's just see. So this was one of my favorite bookshops 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 back 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. So in Addie Mann Books I got a special edition of The Night Circus which is one of my favorite books. I was so affordable and look how cool the cover is. Isn't it cool? Yes it is. Now I actually need to collect myself. We're going to go into Murder and Mayhem which is just literally across from Addie Mann 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 books 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 Readers 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 writer's brain. Okay so in Murder and 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 like out of any book and I know it's about the Chicago World Fair and a murderer that was like at large during that time. It's like nonfiction so I've heard a lot of things about it and again it was super affordable. Now we're Green Ink Booksellers which is one of my favorite like store fronts. It's one of like the newest books I think that I've opened up in the area recently and I think it's like such a stylish store front so we're gonna go look at this one next. 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 guidebook which I was so excited when I spotted as it could help me do more videos like this. Okay so next I'm going to pop into Hey on My Booksellers which I think has one of my favorite store fronts. I just think you look super cute and quaint. 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 Addie Man Annex which is owned by the same people as Addie Man Books and Murder and Mayhem. A lot of people say this is actually one of their favorite bookshops. It has the best selection of books so I'm hoping I'm going to find some books that 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. I actually brought two books in here. This lovely hardback edition of the Essex Serpent which I've always had my eye on and Violette by Charlotte Bronte to add to my cloth bound collection. It's the Honesty Bookshop. This is outside. This is kind of near Addie Man Annex and these books are just outside and you can just they trust you. It's why it's called the Honesty Bookshop. 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. A cinema bookshop and I think this is probably the biggest bookshop 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 actually don't know what is awaiting me inside this treasure trove of books. 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. I loved the selection in there. I thought they had like a lot of different books and what I've seen in the other bookshops so if you are going because this one's a little bit more out of the way so if you've gone around a lot of those bookshops 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. 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's a Victorian mystery which we all know that is my niche. That's like my favorite thing and I did look in it and it is like the sick 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. Okay so that was our trip to Hyeyeon Why. 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 would 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 does 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 Gaskill 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 £3 by Seattle Taylor. This is a co-circle isolated mystery my favourite thing. Then I got a special edition of The Night Circus which is one of my favourite books so this isn't one I'll be reading but it's only about £4 so I just thought you can't go wrong. Like you can't blame a girl for buying an edition of her favourite 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 Corps fan 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 going to read it for ages but I'm glad I have it in my collection. Then I got The Dance of the Serpents 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 naughty naughty you teasing me you naughty naughty. That's a video which will probably be coming next month so stay tuned. It will be a very funny video. I can't believe I stumbled across that book in the bookshop. And then finally my dad did get me The Lives of Saints by Lee Bardugo. He's been a bit obsessed with Six of Crows and Crookie Conterminally. He saw this in a bookshop obviously recognised the name Lee Bardugo and decided to get it for me. It is kind of like mythology about different Grisha vs Saints so I'm excited to read this at some point and yeah that was our book haul for Hey on Why. 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 go into the end of this video comment a book stack emoji and let me know where your favourite bookshop is. I'd love to know what your favourite bookshop is so maybe one day I can visit it and yeah thank you so so much for watching this video. I'll see you very soon in another one. Bye.