Hi it's Tamsien from Babbling Books and
today I'm so excited because I'm going to be
taking you on a tour of Addyman Books
here in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. Hay-on-Wye is famous
as being the 'town of books'. There are almost 40
bookstores scattered around the small town
and all of them are fascinating, with
different themes, focuses, and topics. And
I'm going to be showing you Addyman, which
is one of the older bookstores that have been
in this town, and it's been here for almost 30 years.
If you've been following my account and my adventures on
Instagram you'll know that I absolutely love
the popular penguin editions, which are
right behind me. And this is my favorite
room in Addyman. It's dedicated to the
wonderful paperback classics which are
available on the market. And these
beautiful second-hand books are
absolutely incredible.
Take a look.
You might have noticed the incredible arched wooden carved
sections in this area of the bookstore.
This was taken from a 19th century
Church in Transylvania. It's all hand-carved
and hand-painted, and it just adds to the
atmosphere of this section of the bookshop.
You might have noticed that Addyman Bookshop has a lot of
different rooms.
That's because it's actually part of a
house and all of the different rooms
have been turned into different themed sections
of bookstore. This tiny little room that
I'm standing in right now is all gothic
steampunk and fairytale related and all
sorts of interesting discoveries. If you care to look.
My other favorite room in the bookstore
has to be the Science Fiction room.
I love sci-fi in all of its forms, from the kind of
cheesy and a little bit weird and wonderful
'Prince of Peril', through to my absolute
all-time favorites like Neil Gaiman's Stardust and
all of his other works.
Another great section, which is relatively small but very very well chosen
is their Women's section. This includes
lots of Feminist literature. We've got authors like
Germaine Greer and we've got lots of other older things,
as well as some really interesting works on the
Suffragette movement. There's lots to find here.
This tiny little room is dedicated to
the different Celtic legends and also
there's a whole section right here of
Arthurian legends. Which when I was a
teenager was one of my absolute
favorite things to read about. And I have
some terrific books. Check out this:
'Sir Arthur and the Knights of the Round
Table'. This beautiful cover, I absolutely love
secondhand bookstores for this reason.
You can find such an interesting
editions that you would never see
anywhere else. And I have also found a
childhood favorite: 'Arthur and the Seeing Stone'.
This trilogy was one of my
absolute favorites when I was a teen and
it's a really interesting retelling of
the Arthurian legends.
One of the best things about exploring secondhand bookstores to me, apart from the smell, because come on,
we all have to admit that secondhand bookstores
smell incredible, is discovering really
interesting editions of classics that I
adore.
Or classics that I have been meaning to
read for ages and I just haven't got
around them. This time I've decided that
I'm going to be taking these
home with me. I have the pocket
illustrated edition of Emma and Masfield
Park by Jane Austen. I'm really excited
to read both of these because I actually haven't
read either of these, and I feel like a negligent
bookworm for a omitting some of Austen's
great work from my classic education. So I
guess look out for these to be reviewed at
some point in the future. But I can't
guarantee when. But until then I'm just
going to adore having them on my
shelves. And they're nice and small, so they're going
to fit in my luggage on my way home.
The final little space at very very
top of this gorgeous old building is a model of
Scott's cabin. This space is dedicated to
Arctic and Antarctic exploration and
explorers who've tried to climb the highest
peaks in this world. It's got a cosy,
snowy cabin feel about it. And I think this
really beautifully sums up the
atmosphere and the feeling of being
inside Addyman Books. Everything has
been so carefully chosen, everything has
a theme and a place. And yes all of
the books are secondhand and there's
wonderful antiquarian books, but there's also
all of these different things that you
never would expect to find. They've been
curated such wonderful way. So all of the
bookstores in Hay-on-Wye are incredible
and it's such a wonderful town to explore
if you're a book lover like me. But I especially have enjoyed
my time here at Addyman and I cannot
recommend visiting this section of Wales
highly enough if you're a book lover.





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