London Bookshop Vlog! Touring Best London Bookshops 📚 ❤️
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Happy Sunday! Welcome to the first of my London bookshop vlogs. Mum and I went to London to cat sit for my friend, and the city looked beautiful for the Coronation. Of course, I went to lots of the best London bookshops, as well as some other shops and a fabulous art exhibition.
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LINKS:
(affiliate links used for Blackwells)
Death of an Author by ECR Lorac (press copy): blackwells.co....
Fischers: www.fischers.c...
Daunt Books: dauntbooks.co.uk/
The Boy Who Would Be King by Michael Morpurgo: blackwells.co....
Coronation by Paul Gallico: blackwells.co....
Cressida Bell notelets: www.cressidabe...
Alice Pattullo cards: cannsdownpress...
Brambly Hedge Writing Set: bramblyhedge.c...
F&M Coronation Tea: www.fortnumand...
F&M Coronation Coffee: www.fortnumand...
F&M Coronation Biscuits: www.fortnumand...
Favourite Poems of England, edited by Jane McMorland Hunter: blackwells.co....
Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton: blackwells.co....
Noble Rot: noblerot.co.uk...
Pentreath and Hall: pentreath-hall...
Bridie Hall Large Roses Candle: pentreath-hall...
P&H Coronation Tea Towel: pentreath-hall...
Skoob Books: skoob.com/
British Library: www.bl.uk/
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Today is Mother’s Day in Canada. One of the reasons I visit your blog (aside from the amazing bookish content) is to bask in your warm and loving mother-daughter relationship with Donna. My mother died many years ago and I wish she’d lived long enough for us to have visited more places together and to have spent more quality time together. Seeing you and your Mum interact brings me comfort and joy.
I’m so glad the video brings back memories of your own Mum! I feel so happy that my on relationship with my mum makes for happy viewing for others! ❤️💐
I loved seeing all the bookstores and then seeing what you bought! Stationery, books, all looks lovely. And the food looks delicious! Looking forward to next week's vlog.
Thank you! It was a wonderful start to the week!
Loved this virtual wander around London, so beautifully filmed. The Berthe Morisot exhibition looks wonderful!
Forgot to mention, beautiful curious cat!
I read A View from Saturday in one sitting between the US and Japan. It is wonderful! I hope you enjoy it.
How cute is the cat!!
Thanks
Thank you so much for your very kind support, Lynn! I really appreciate it ❤️
Oh, but I have loved this vlog, Miranda, as you visited all the places I would particularly wish to see myself. I’ll be re-watching it to my heart’s content! May I also say how glowing your Mom was looking throughout? Am now looking forward to next’s week’s follow-on video. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much! So glad you enjoyed it 😊📚❤️
I look forward to your vlogs each week. Yours is one I watch without fail as I always find something of interest. The books your choose, the scenery, the art, stationary, tea. The relationship between you and your mum, the clothing you wear. I can see the effort you put into your channel and I just wanted to say that is a joy to watch and my book list often has a number of the books you have recommended on it.
That’s so kind of you to say, Hayley! Thank you for your lovely words - they mean a lot! 😊❤️
London Bookshop Vlog? AAAAAAAAA Such fun! Sundays made better 👏🏽
Thank you! Hope you enjoy it 😊📚
I finally own these two amazing books Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre with the illustrations by Marjolein Bastin they are stunning. Thank you. I love your videos
Do you happen to know the publisher of the PG Wodehouse books you filmed?
I believe the publisher is Everyman xx
What a timely video Miranda as I am off to the ballet tomorrow. I have been wondering what I would like to do as I have some time to kill before afternoon tea at Ochre and you have given me quite a few ideas, thank you so much. It was fun to see you both enjoying your time in London. Simba and Leo are absolutely adorable - they must be such fun to sit for. Enjoy the rest of your stay, Teresa 👑🇬🇧
Enjoy the ballet and your time in London, Teresa! So happy you enjoyed the video!🩰❤️
Miranda, it is always such an amazing time well spend watching you and your mother's journey. You give so much life to books. I can't imagine why a book publishing company doesn't snatch you up. Thank you so very much for filming, it is great to watch from the US. Can't wait to know about your new blog. Keep up the great work you do.
I love your vlogs, Miranda! So beautiful and interesting. Your vision of the world is an absolute breath of fresh air nowadays.
Thank you and greetings from Portugal
I watched the beautiful coronation from here in Alabama, USA🇺🇸🇺🇸
How amazing that we could view it at the time that it was occurring.
I also enjoyed watching the coronation prom.
Thank you for showing us the streets of London displaying their finest patriotic decorations.
And bookshops! It doesn’t get much better than that for a visit with you and your Mum.
Thank you taking time from your cat sitting (how cute he is), to take us along on your visit to London.🇬🇧.
Best wishes to you and your Mum.
God Save the King!!🇬🇧🇬🇧
An unexpected lovely trip to London for the two of you - thank you for sharing your getaway with us!
So glad you enjoyed it, Betty! Thank you!
Thanks! I can’t travel to England like I did when I was younger. The vlogs with you and your mom are such a treat!! So appreciated!!❤️
Thank you so much for your very kind support, Carol! I really appreciate it, and I’m so glad you enjoyed a little virtual travel through my vlog 😊❤️
I enjoyed your London adventures so much, Miranda! The Brambly Hedge stationary is gorgeous. I didn’t read Goodbye Mr Chips, but I like film adaptation by RC Sherriff. The cats are wonderful.
So glad you enjoyed the video, thank you Daria!
Delightful vlog! I loved the jazzy swing (and the Satie) music you used too. Lovely. Now that our only source for books in English, Book Depository, has closed, all that is left for me is just to enjoy other people going to bookshops in the UK! Thank you for sharing your week with us. London, cats, books, aaah, I can't ask for more. Love to you and Donna :) xx
It's so sad about Book Depository, isn't it? I am in Australia, and I have ordered from Blackwell's Books a few times. They are good, too, with free postage, but they are not quite as fast with their deliveries as Book Depository was!
Both you girls look so beautiful. To much fun.
Thank you Miranda and Donna for this wonderful vlog! I loved the lovely music you chose to accompany the content and I caught myself smiling the whole time watching this lovely, happy vlog. I got so thrilled, since I'm going to visit London myself in August. I can't wait!!! Have a very happy week❤️
That’s so kind of you, Inga! Thank you so much for your fabulous support!! I really appreciate it 😊❤️ How lovely your trip is coming up soon! I’m sure you’ve got so many places on your list to see! Xxx
Thank you Miranda for such a lovely video. I will probably never get the chance to visit England myself so to see your beautiful country through your eyes is such a joy to me!
I loved living vicariously through you and your mom in London! Everything was amazing! A feast for the eyes!
Thanks so much ❤️
So glad you and your mum had such a wonderful time in London. It was great to see some of my favourite areas, Marylebone and Piccadilly for the book stores and for Fortnums. The artist who designed the image on the Coronation tea you bought is @lucythomasinmorrish. She created a lot of beautiful artwork for the Coronation. And to see the lovely Lambs Conduit Street again , fortunately I now have Persephone a short walk away!
What a lovely vlog, I so enjoyed sharing in your London visits to museums and bookshops. A lovely selection of books in your haul. I am especially interested in 'Poor Stainless'. I thought I'd got all the Borrowers titles but I've never heard of this one. I'll have look for it online but if it's expensive I'll have to wait awhile as I've just treated myself to a beautiful photography book AND a new camera! Both for my 65th birthday at the end of this week.
Simba and Leo are gorgeous cats!
Miranda, I enjoyed this vlog so much! I haven't been to London in almost 10 years & I don't know how much longer I can hold out. You went to all my favorite places except Liberty. If your friend needs a cat sitter again, please let me know & I will hop right on a plane from Las Vegas.
What a lovely content in your beautiful vlog! Thank you for everything you have shared!
It makes me smile that you bought all the tasteful coronation themed souvenirs! I would have done the same...I have watched the coronation together with my mom -she is 82-here in Germany and this is also a kind of souvenir, that will always stay in my memory!
So enjoyable, looking at your trip to London and all the lovely things you got. Love the book covers. Colorful Coronation Tins. So much more.
That was such fun - thank you for sharing!
I enjoyed seeing all the different bookstores in Bloomsbury. I now realize I have more places to put on my list for a London visit. Thank you!
What a lovely opportunity to visit London. You had a captured audience in the kitchen, he was so interested in your purchases. I just flew home from London and now you’ve shown me everything I missed! I haven’t been to the UK for some years but my son drove to the Bronte Parsonage just for me.
How lovely you got to the Brontë Parsonage. What a great son!
Fab
Great bookstores, Great books, delicious looking food, like the weather is beautiful, what more could one ask for. Again very nice video, thank you very much 📚♥️🫶💐
Thank you! We did have a wonderful time
Hi Miranda, Thank you for such an amazing vlog. The cats are gorgeous! You & your Mum look as though you had a wonderful time. I loved seeing the Coronation decorations & all the lovely books and souvenirs that you bought as well. Xxx😊❤
I can't wait to see the second part of your vlog. Xx
Hey, I have that edition of Goodbye, Mr. Chips! It's a lovely, light read with such a bittersweet tone. It's even more fun if you've ever been a student of Latin, which is the title character's specialty. 😊
Lovely to see all your beautiful purchases - that's the longest tin of biscuits I've ever seen :D
The way you show us your purchases after shopping, reminds me of how my daughters and I would do that after coming back from shopping. I would put the kettle on to boil, we would get all our bags situated, get cozy and have our tea and show our purchases. A great memory. Thank you 🤗
This was so much fun to watch. Everything I love - books, food, stationery, restaurants.... and cats! You really showed London at its finest. Beautifully shot. So lovely to see you and your Mum out and about xx
Thanks so much for your very kind words, Sally! ❤️💐
Thank you very much for taking us along. London, books, impressionists and cats are some of my favourite topics. Say Hi to your lovely mum. And Happy Mother's Day!
What a lovely London trip, I was especially interested in your visit to the Berthe Morisot exhibition, must visit it next time I'm down. So glad you and your Mum had a fabulous time whilst cat sitting those gorgeous cats 😍 Looking forward to your next vlog .
Thank you very much! Yes, I so recommend getting to the exhibition if you can! Xxx
The exhibition looked great and I liked all your purchases.😊
I was right there with you in London! Thank you for letting me come along!
thank you for sharing your trip with us - I so enjoy seeing videos of your lovely country, and especially when you venture to the exceptional, one of a kind bookshops! Looking forward to part 2! So happy that you and your Mum were able to be in London around the Coronation - and that the weather cooperated for you - looked lovely. Hello to your Mum too.... love when she's a part of your vlogs. Jacqueline
What a very enjoyable video, every bit of it. What a fun day out with mom. Hello, mum!
I’ll swap cities anytime to live in London and be on a forever fieldstrip exploring all the nooks and treasures! Canadian cities just full of box strip malls and stores closing like Nordstroms. You just make do but London oooh la La!
Also Simba and Leo are absolutely adorable, what beautiful cats!
Thank you Miranda for all your inspiration - I'm going to visit both the Berthe Morisot and the Rosetti exhibitions. Those cats are adorable by the way :-)
Thank you so much for your lovely support! I'm so glad you enjoyed this video. Have fun seeing the exhibitions! ❤️
Thank you, Miranda, for taking us along on your London trip. Simba and Leo are the cutest (and their adorable paws!). And, thank you for that shot at Skoob showing the lovely vintage orange Penguins - it made my day! Everything about the video is perfect and puts a smile on my face. 💟😊
Thank you so much, Jason! So glad you enjoyed the vlog, and yes, Simba & Leo are the cutest!!!
Looks like you and your Mom had a lovely time! Loved seeing all the shops, book stores you visited!
I love books and stationery, great seeing all of the wonderful items you found. 📚❤️
Thanks so much, Teresa! I’m delighted you enjoyed the vlog!❤️📚
Loved your vlog and seeing your visit to London. I'm delighted you enjoyed your visit to the Dulwich Picture Gallery. I volunteer there but sadly wasn't working the day you were both there. Looking forward to part 2 of this London literary vlog.
Someday I hope to get to London. Such a beautiful city❤️I also loved seeing it decorated for the Coronation. And oh, the bookshops🥰. Today is Mother’s Day here in the US and it was especially wonderful seeing you and your charming mom today. All the best to you both 💕
Hi Miranda, it’s quite a coincidence that I read a review of A Calamity of Mannerings in today’s Sunday Times and thought I would like to buy a copy and then saw your vlog and there it was. I really enjoyed your tour of the bookshops and that exhibition looks amazing.
Simba is absolutely beautiful
lovely seeing everything that you have been up to in London! thanks for taking us along
This was so well put together and delightful to watch! 🌸 I loved the stations and that impressionist garden book 😍
Those tins are beautiful! Well done on all your purchases! Gorgeous cats!
Simba is GORGEOUS! Wonderful video as always.
The art exhibit was absolutely beautiful!
Thank you for this lovely video. Thank you for taking us along with you to all the wonderful places
there is a clip of you standing beside a huge, oversize book with a black cover and red font (around 4:18 mark) could you tell me its full title and author? my last name is Jarman and i think that Jarman is in the title, i am super curious! thank you!
I think it’s ‘Derek Jarman - Protest!’
@@MirandaMills thank you💕
I love Morisot too. She is as important an Impressionist as any of her male cohorts. Her relationship with Manet is fascinating and tinged with sadness. Thank you, Miranda for another lovely vlog.
I look forward to every Monday(here in Australia) when another video of yours is uploaded! ☺️
By the way Miranda, I’ve tried mentioning you in Instagram a few times but I can’t seem to be able to unfortunately. You have influenced my reading so much that I just wanted to credit you for it 😁
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A SpaceNK right next to Daunt ... how convenient ... 💕 and Hatchard's! my fav ... the oldest bookshop in London ... Paul Gallico wrote what is the saddest book I have ever read - The Abandoned ... you and your mother are twins!
Hello Miranda and Donna. What a lovely visit around London. All places and shops that I would love to visit…someday. I do love impressionist paintings as you do. Please look up Growing Up With the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet. I haven’t read it yet, but it looks interesting. Enjoy your remaining days in London.🌸
The opening shot of you and that adorable cat had me go “SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
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Thank you for taking us along to London ❤, such a beautiful treat for the eyes 😎🤗.
Love all the bookstores. Looks like a great trip.
One of the books you mentioned, Goodbye Mr. Chips, I think was the basis of an old movie made around 1939. I haven't read book but saw the movie which I thought was quite good. Thank you.
Thank you so much for taking us along with you in London, especially at this very special time, the Coronation (which I watched here in Canada and thought it fascinating!!!). A lovely vlog, Miranda, and looking forward to part 2! ❤
So glad you enjoyed it, Grace, thank you! Xxx
I love Goodbye Mr Chips, the 1939 version starring Robert Donat is excellent.
Miranda, it was fun watching your vlog about the time you & your mum spent in London during the Coronation festivities! As a result of your excellent synopsis of book purchases, I was intrigued and able to obtain the Paul Gallico "Coronation" book. It is excellent! A very charming story, which I am going to share with my friends here in the States. Thank you for all the wonderful vlogs and excellent book recommendations!
London bookshops are always such a treat, and you’ve shared some fabulous books! Goodbye Mr Chips is wonderful and the tv adaptation with Martin Clunes was just a wonderful as well ☺️
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Just loved this blog. So much to say about it. You always open my eyes to new things. Or even new ways to look at ordinary things. Through your blogs my life has become richer - truly. Each blog is like a hug. Added books to my wish list, and now planning an upcoming visit to lamb’s conduit street. Haven’t been there in ages.
You have such an artistic eye, so many wonderful shots!!! Awesome to see all the coronation decorations too!!! 👑✨🇬🇧☺️
I've just found your vlog and this video is fantastic, I love to Simba and Bookshops un London are fantastic!
I really look forward to your vlogs.. they’re really inspiring and inspire me to look forward for more books to read!
Its was mothers day yesterday here in US .
And i was good having lunch with my sons. My birthdays next month so gonna hint to them abt getting me the book ‘good bye mr chips’
Saw the old movie and loved it but sad. so I want the book to add to my collection .
Hope your week goes very well and blessed with beautiful things around each corner!
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Berthe Morisot is not a painter I was familiar with. I'm drawn to impressionist. I also had to add A Calamity of Mannerings to my tbr. The dress you wore while sitting with your mum was very pretty. The black with yellow flowers or lemons?
I saw an exhibition of Berthe Morisot at Musée d'Orsay in Paris a few years ago and I absolutely loved it! I am glad that you and Donna had the chance to go to the London one, her paintings are so special! 🙏❤ Thank you for sharing this moment of your London stay with us 🤗
What a delight this lovely coronation weekend vlog. Enjoyed every minute!
Such a lovely vlog. I very much enjoyed visiting the shops with you and enjoyed seeing your purchases. These are the sorts of shops I love to visit. Very few here where I live in So. California. Thank you for also showing g some of the streets decorated for the Coronation. I got up AR 2 am to watch the pre-event commentary and the whole televised event. My parent were from N. Ireland so we have a great interest in these historical events. Thank you Miranda. It was lovely. It's so nice you and your mum traveled together to cat sit. ❤
Ah! Miranda, You missed the Coronation rain, or did you spend a lot of time not noticing it when you were cozily esconced in said bookshop, restaurant.museum😊 and in the company of friends!
few things i love more than going book shopping in london :))
Such a lovely time you’ve had. I’m truly jealous. But I also wonder how you’re going to get your haul home! 😅
So many good things in this vlog; bookshops, iconic London shops, London streets, stationery, books, food, Miranda and her Mum, AND 2 stunning cats to top it off! 😻😻
My own 2 cats are 4 years old today, 2 sisters.
Loved this vlog and so glad you both are enjoying your stay. Can't wait for part 2 ❤
Happy birthday to your girls! 😻❤️😻
@@MirandaMills awh thank you, Miranda. They're names are Pearl & Tigi 🥰😻😻💕
The British Library is huge and lovely bookshops. You are lucky to be there.
So happy to see another video! ❤
Everything about this Vlog was gorgeous, the music, the scenery, colours, books, shops and you and Donna. My life just suddenly got brighter and better from watching. Thank you 💕💕💐💐
omg I always enjoy your book shopping videos . . love visting all the lovely book stores in London . . the note cards you picked up are so beautiful what a great adventure and such cute cats 📚❤️🙋♀️🌺🌻💐🌹🦋🥰 🐈⬛
All my favourite shops, thank you for taking us along 😊
This London vlog came at the perfect time for me because I’ll be visiting London this week and I can’t wait to browse all these bookshops!
Oh super! Have a wonderful time in London 😊
@@MirandaMills Thank you very much! I try to visit as often as I can, but because of the pandemic, it's been a while. I leave tonight and arrive in London tomorrow. I can't wait!
Thank you for this vlog. I too loved 'The Borrowers' - one of my childhood favourites. I also love the Impressionists. Those books look beautiful.
Simba is wondering who you are talking to😹
Oooh we were in London at the same time. We may even have been in Hatchard’s at the same time. Imagine. I am the same with a good art exhibition… leave with all the stationery. I’m not hankering after that Roses candle. One of my favourite scents is rose. Ps. Simba and Leo were fab guest stars.
Ah how funny!! Hope you had a wonderful time in the city too 😊
Tell your mom Happy mothers day!! 😀
Oh my gosh, Those cats are Beeeautiful!! 🌸❤️
The peacock reminds of an old coaching hotel in the middle of nowhere in my region that always has a few peacocks on the upper verandah!
I love the old shops in London and I will hopefully visit in a few years. "Stig in te Dump"! My favourite book growing up and Henry Treece. Thank-you for the lovely tour and cats.
I love the stationary you bought. 'Goodbye Mr Chips' is a lovely story. The film is really good too.
Dear Miranda, Wonderful vlog as always but I also was thrilled to find out that Mary Norton, who I thought I had all her books, had written one that I have never heard of.Thank you! I will try to track this down.🤩🤩
I discovered the Dulwich Picture Gallery last September and I want to go back now! My daughter lives 10 mins away so I may be able to pop there before the end of the exhibition. It’s a very nice place. Some time I’ll try to visit those new to me bookshops. Always in for books and bookshops! 😊❤ I love all your videos.
I hope you manage to get to DPG again soon, Nadine! It’s a lovely gallery ❤️