My best reading year yet 📚 2023 reading reflections & postscript book tag @Claire_Fenby

Claire Fenby-Warren Looking back at my reading year and favourite books of 2023 📚 Featuring Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and more!

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📖 Books mentioned 📖
Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
The Strangest Family by Janice Hadlow
Animal Farm by George Orwell (thanks to @ArielBissett)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (Folio Society)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Cranford Classics)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder at the Vicarage & Hercule Poirot's Christmas (HarperCollins)
Small things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Penguin)
Thomas Cromwell by Tracy Borman (Hodder)

Necklace: Tatty Devine @tattydevine x World Book Day (gifted): tattydevine.com/products/world-book-day-bookshelf-necklace

🖊️ Postscript book tag questions 🖊️
1) The longest book you read this year and the book that took you the longest to finish.
2. A book you read in 2022 that was outside of your comfort zone.
3. How many books did you re-read in 2022?
4. Favorite re-read of 2022.
5. A book you read for the first time in 2022 that you look forward to re-reading in the future.
6. Favorite single short story or novella that you read in 2022.
7. Mass Appeal: A book you liked and would recommend to a wide variety of readers.
8. Specialized Appeal: A book you liked but would be hesitant to recommend to just anyone.
9. Reflect on your year as a bookish content creator (goals met, good/bad memories, favorite videos you made, etc).
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=yydtcQRDtMU

Welcome to my booktube channel! I'm Claire 👋 I live in London and work in book publishing. I love reading classics and I'm a huge history geek (always talking about either the Georgians or the Tudors)! My favourite authors include Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, the Brontë sisters and Virginia Woolf 📚 I have a BA and MA in English Literature from York St. John University and University of York respectively.

Keywords: Favourite books of 2023, best books of 2023, 2024 reading goals and resolutions, #booktube tag Tuesday, my reading year, booktube newbie, booktube tag,

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My best reading year yet 📚 2023 reading reflections & postscript book tag

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-02-19 | Looking back at my reading year and favourite books of 2023 📚 Featuring Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and more!

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📖 Books mentioned 📖
Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
The Strangest Family by Janice Hadlow
Animal Farm by George Orwell (thanks to @ArielBissett)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (Folio Society)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Cranford Classics)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder at the Vicarage & Hercule Poirot's Christmas (HarperCollins)
Small things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Penguin)
Thomas Cromwell by Tracy Borman (Hodder)

Necklace: Tatty Devine @tattydevine x World Book Day (gifted): tattydevine.com/products/world-book-day-bookshelf-necklace

🖊️ Postscript book tag questions 🖊️
1) The longest book you read this year and the book that took you the longest to finish.
2. A book you read in 2022 that was outside of your comfort zone.
3. How many books did you re-read in 2022?
4. Favorite re-read of 2022.
5. A book you read for the first time in 2022 that you look forward to re-reading in the future.
6. Favorite single short story or novella that you read in 2022.
7. Mass Appeal: A book you liked and would recommend to a wide variety of readers.
8. Specialized Appeal: A book you liked but would be hesitant to recommend to just anyone.
9. Reflect on your year as a bookish content creator (goals met, good/bad memories, favorite videos you made, etc).
Original video: youtube.com/watch?v=yydtcQRDtMU

Welcome to my booktube channel! I'm Claire 👋 I live in London and work in book publishing. I love reading classics and I'm a huge history geek (always talking about either the Georgians or the Tudors)! My favourite authors include Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, the Brontë sisters and Virginia Woolf 📚 I have a BA and MA in English Literature from York St. John University and University of York respectively.

Keywords: Favourite books of 2023, best books of 2023, 2024 reading goals and resolutions, #booktube tag Tuesday, my reading year, booktube newbie, booktube tag,

MY COSY AUTUMN BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 🍂 Book haul & Victober TBR 🕯️👻

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-09-21 | Cozy book haul just in time for Autumn/Fall 🍁 A few book recommendations ready for the spooky season and #Victober! #booktube

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0:00 Get cosy with me!
1:09 Autumn/fall book recs
5:28 Victober 2024 TBR
9:22 New history non-fiction haul
13:41 Candle and wax melt haul

Books mentioned 📚
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (20th anniversary edition published by Bloomsbury)
Rewitched by @LucyJaneWood
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (Brontë Vintage Classics series)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Penguin English Library)
Crooked House by Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Vintage yellowback series)
Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough (Gifted by @profilebooks)
God's Own Gentlewoman: The Life of Margaret Paston by Diane Watt (Gifted by @IconBooksUK)

Candle and wax melt haul:
Pumpkin Spice by Cozy Glow: https://cozyglow.store/
Vintage Book Shop and Pumpkin Souffle by PQ Soy Wax Candles in York: instagram.com/pqsoywaxcandles or shop.fabric-ation.co.uk/en/pqsoyawaxcandles
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❓ FAQ:
What type of videos do you make? I love book shopping videos featuring my favourite book shops across the UK (especially in Yorkshire and London) and cozy chatty vlogs about my recent reads!
Where do you live? I live in York with my husband Ben and two cats (Sybil and Freyja). I lived in London for 7 and still visit multiple times a month for work 🇬🇧
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry as Head of Marketing!
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA) specialising in the late 18th Century
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the Titanic and the Blitz 🤓

Keywords 🏷️ September book haul, Victober 2024 TBR, Fall TBR, Rewitched Lucy Jane Wood book review, Gilmore Girls book recs, Books to read this fall, Cozy book recommendations, Cosy book recommendations, cosy book haul, Pumpkin Spice books, Halloween book recommendations, Victorian literature book haul, Tudor history book reviews, Piranesi, The Wood at Midwinter, history booktube, Comfort book club, Comfort book recommendations

Leaving London and moving to Yorkshire 🌸 Spring (2024) Snapshots

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-09-17 | Every season I make a little home movie documenting my life – welcome to Spring (March-July 2024) ✨ This video is special to me as it documents our move from London to York! Timestamps 👇

My snapshots videos document my life through the seasons in a scrapbook-esque collection of clips. Capturing small joys, memorable trips and experiences, and bigger life events. Start romanticising life with me!

Timestamps ⏰
0:00 London in bloom! Visiting Bloomsbury
0:47 Cozy time at home 🐱
1:18 Recreating Mrs Dalloway's walk in Westminster
2:11 Hatchards (The oldest book shop in London)
2:43 Packing up my books 📚
3:13 Last day in our flat!
3:39 Park Hill 🌳 Last day in Croydon
4:27 Saying goodbye to our lovely flat!
5:13 Leaving in London 🚗
5:44 Arriving in York and settling in
5:59 York in bloom!
6:39 York Ghost Merchants (getting a new ghost to haunt our house) 👻
7:00 Our favourite places in York (ft Monk Bar Chocolatiers & Minster Gate book shop)
7:49 @ArielBissett's trip to York (Afternoon tea at Betty's & more chocolate shots)
8:40 Exploring North Yorkshire (Byland Abbey and Malton)
9:28 Spring turns to Summer in York! Wildflower meadow & favourite shops 🌼
11:15 Publishing work trips to London & the British Book Awards
11:48 Back home to Yorkshire ❤️

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❓ FAQ:
What type of videos do you make? I love book shopping videos featuring my favourite book shops across the UK (especially in Yorkshire and London) and cozy chatty vlogs about my recent reads!
Where do you live? I live in York with my husband Ben and two cats (Sybil and Freyja). I lived in London for 7 and still visit multiple times a month for work 🇬🇧
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry in marketing!
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA) specialising in the 18th Century
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the home front during WW2

Why I love secondhand books 📚 Book haul & favourite classics

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-08-27 | Collecting my favourite books in vintage editions ✨ Secondhand book shopping with me in York!

Books mentioned 📖
The Sound of Music by Maria Von Trapp
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Howard's End by E. M. Forster

Places mentioned 📍 @OxfamGB book shop in Low Petergate and Micklegate

Videos mentioned 🎥
My video on why I love secondhand books: youtu.be/tTaaWdKy8eY?si=QYdpLHtLnLnoxh1F
Book shopping at @nationaltrustcharity's Morden Hall Park bookshop: youtu.be/Mjy44Bqcrxk?si=euFF_5MOPErHvKdQ

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❓ FAQ:
What type of videos do you make? I love book shopping videos featuring my favourite book shops across the UK (especially in Yorkshire and London) and cozy chatty vlogs about my recent reads!
Where do you live? I live in York with my husband Ben and two cats (Sybil and Freyja). I lived in London for 7 and still visit multiple times a month for work 🇬🇧
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry in marketing!
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA) specialising in the 18th Century
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the 1940s home front

Keywords: Come book shopping with me, Favourite book shops in York, cosy reading vlog in Yorkshire, charity shop book haul, thrift shop book haul, Vintage classics book haul, antique book haul, Oxfam book shop haul #bookshopping #booktube #bookhaul #thrifting

Books, tea & Tudor history in London 📚 Birthday haul

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-08-06 | What happens when a history nerd turns 29! Starting my 30th year with lots of Tudor history, an afternoon tea at Fortnums and a bit of book shopping in London 📚

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Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
0:42 My love of London & top tip for tourists
2:58 Let's talk the Six Wives of Henry VIII!
My review of Six Lives exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
8:32 Museum gift shop haul
12:50 Decorations haul! My St. Nicholas collection
17:02 Waterstones book haul
22:07 Afternoon tea at Fortnum and Mason
22:52 Tea haul! Fortnums and Bird and Blend
25:21 My new William Morris tea pot
26:49 A book shopping trip to Hatchards 👋 Mrs Dalloway
27:33 New biography of Virginia Woolf
29:02 Birthday celebrations

Watch last year's birthday show and tell video: youtu.be/cAOgvSPq7zo?si=poBTzEp64aTgMlhv

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📚 Books mentioned:
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII's Queens by Charlotte Bolland (National Portrait Gallery)
Firebrand by Elizabeth Freemantle (Penguin Books)
Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Six Wives through the eyes of the Spanish Ambassador by Dr Lauren Mackay
The Thistle and the Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor by Linda Porter (Apollo, Bloomsbury)
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes (4th Estate, HarperCollins)

❓ FAQ:
What type of videos do you make? I love book shopping videos featuring my favourite book shops across the UK (especially in Yorkshire and London) and cozy chatty vlogs about my recent reads!
Where do you live? I live in York with my husband Ben and two cats (Sybil and Freyja). I lived in London for 7 and still visit multiple times a month for work 🇬🇧
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry in marketing!
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA) specialising in the 18th Century
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the home front during WW2

#booktube #bookhaul #tudorhistory #historybooks

Summer books & a new favourite book shop 📚☀️ Cozy reading vlog

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-07-10 | Bookish catch-up discussing a new favourite book, must-read children's Classics and a beautiful (new to me) bookshop in Yorkshire!

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Intro
0:00 Summer in Yorkshire 🌧️☀️
2:54 Visiting Malton & Kemps Books
5:56 Yorkshire book haul
7:45 The Secret Garden review
12:04 Monet in York
14:31 Discussing classic children's literature
16:42 I Capture the Castle review
20:52 Reading update & reflections
23:32 Currently reading: Crown of Blood
23:45 Tudor history moment for Lady Jane Grey
26:04 My birthday plans & Thomas Cromwell
26:53 Thank you for watching!

Places mentioned:
Kemps General Store & Kemps Books 📍 Malton, North Yorkshire:
York Art Gallery & Garden including the Monet in York exhibition 📍 York

Books mentioned 📚
Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape ed. David Stuart Davies (Macmillan Collector's Library)
Prehistoric Yorkshire by Alan Avery (Blackthorn Press)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Wordsworth Collector's Editions)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (Vintage Classics Heroines series) thanks to a recommendation from Miranda Mills' wonderful channel @MirandaMills
Crown of Blood The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Dr Nicola Tallis (O'Mara Books)
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)

❓ FAQ:
What type of videos do you make? I love book shopping videos featuring my favourite book shops across the UK (especially in Yorkshire and London) and cozy chatty vlogs about my recent reads!
Where do you live? I live in York with my husband Ben and two cats (Sybil and Freyja). I lived in London for 7 and still visit multiple times a month for work 🇬🇧
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry in marketing!
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA) specialising in the 18th & 19th Century
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the home front during WW2

Keywords: Yorkshire books, history book review, I Capture the Castle book review, The Secret Garden book review, York Art Gallery, National Gallery Lady Jane Grey, Dr Nicola Tallis book review, Tudor history book recommendations, history booktuber, Independent Book shop week vlog, Favourite book shop, indie book shop vlog, new favourite book, July favourites, July reading wrap-up, August TBR pile, cozy reading vlog, cosy reading vlog,

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My last winter in London and a trip to Bath ❄️ Book shopping & packing! | Winter (2023) Snapshots

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-06-15 | Every season I make a little home movie documenting my life - welcome to Winter (December 2023-March 2024) ✨ This video is special because winter was my last full season as a Londoner! We visited some of our favourite places in the city and enjoyed a few days away in Bath and Canterbury. Featuring lots of book shopping, beautiful historical places & cosy cats! Timestamps below 👇 #bookish

My snapshots videos document my life through the seasons in a scrapbook-esque collection of clips. Capturing small joys, memorable trips and experiences, and bigger life events. Start romanticising life with me!

My seasonal snapshots playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL123F5E3lljyPJ-YnI__9ITx4792iWsp-
Watch Autumn, my last video in this series: youtu.be/r0Y4Invhsqc
Watch last year's Winter video: youtu.be/C_ujlWbw0ls?si=rA7kaCtAy6AE0WzS

📍 Places visited with feline interludes!
0:00 Winter lights in London
0:24 Book shopping at John Sandoe Books
0:49 Ben's dad's carol concert & Christmas in the city
1:51 Christmas at home in London
2:26 New Year
2:45 Our trip to Bath
4:19 The South Bank & Six wives
5:27 Home and snow!
6:00 Trafalgar Square, National Portrait Gallery & National Gallery
6:54 Green Park
7:17 Day trip to Canterbury
8:15 Kensington Palace (birthplace of Queen Victoria)
9:01 Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park (Ben's favourite place)
9:22 Book shopping in Bloomsbury
10:07 Morden Hall Park (a spot of secondhand book shopping)
11:26 Getting ready to leave London
12:10 Thank you for watching

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❓ FAQ:
What type of videos do you make? I love book shopping videos featuring my favourite book shops across the UK (especially in Yorkshire and London) and cozy chatty vlogs about my recent reads!
Where do you live? I live in York with my husband Ben and two cats (Sybil and Freyja). I lived in London for 7 and still visit frequently 🇬🇧
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry in marketing!
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA) specialising in the 18th Century
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the home front during WW2

Book shopping, antiquing & thrifting in York! 📚 Ft Ariel Bissett

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-06-10 | Everything I've bought since to moving to Yorkshire! A love letter to York (and Ariel) ♥️ A book and homeware haul brand new releases, antique decor and lots of kitsch

00:00 Introduction
2:58 Favourite places to eat in York (Monk Bar Chocolatiers & York Roast Co)
5:21 Charity shop book haul!
8:16 Brand new books about the Tudors featuring @ElleHistory
11:20 Criminally Good Books, new crime bookshop in York
12:29 Anne of Green Gables
14:23 The new beautiful Wordsworth Classics editions
15:55 Tea break and my new tea cup!
19:09 My bookish origami & 2nd wedding anniversary present
21:21 Antiquing with Ariel
23:24 Vintage postcards!
25:36 Afternoon tea at Betty's
27:04 Antique prints and Minster Gate Book Shop
27:59 Flower pressing
29:21 Buying a ghost from the York Ghost Merchants!
30:37 Antique and vintage house decor haul!
33:51 William Morris cushions!
34:58 Thank you for watching

@ArielBissett's Finding Places For My New Thrifted Antiques!: youtu.be/bAF0wxS1V8Y

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Books mentioned 📖
Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey
Women in England 1760-1914 by Susie Steinbach
London Ladybird book
The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Wordsworth Luxe Collection)

My wedding bouquet and rose by The Origami Boutique: instagram.com/origamiboutique

❓ FAQ:
What type of videos do you make? I love book shopping videos featuring my favourite book shops across the UK (especially in Yorkshire and London) and cozy chatty vlogs about my recent reads!
Where do you live? I live in York with my husband Ben and two cats (Sybil and Freyja). I lived in London for 7 and still visit every month 🇬🇧
What do you do for work? I work full-time in the book publishing industry as a marketer.
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA), specialising in the 18th Century
Favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the home front during WW2

Keywords: Staffordshire spaniels, Victorian house decor haul, moving to York, Moving to Yorkshire, Victorian terrace renovation, Charity shop haul, thrift shopping haul, new home decor haul, antique shopping, June book haul 2024

#booktube #homedecor #vintagestyle

We moved from London to Yorkshire 📚☕️ My favourite things so far & new bookshelves!

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-05-06 | We finally made it to York! I'm so glad to be back filming #booktube videos and this time in a little Victorian terrace ❤️ I hope you like my new bookshelves as much as I do!

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Where do you live? I live in York with my husband and two cats. I used to live in London and still visit frequently 🇬🇧
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry as a Head of Marketing
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA)
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the home front during WW2

Bookish Q&A while I pack up all my classics 📚 Leaving London, studying & working in publishing

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-04-19 | Let's chat while I pack up my classics bookshelf ready for our move from London to Yorkshire ✨ Featuring little Freyja 🐈‍⬛ Timestamps below!

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0:00 Introduction
1:32 Classics bookshelf
Watch my full bookshelf tour: youtu.be/qJx8zgd-vTs?si=tgRgJMWqv3sBUS0a
2:47 We're moving!
6:11 Favourite places in the UK?
8:08 Favourite places and bookshops in London?
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10:35 Favourite bookish memories? (mostly ft @ArielBissett)
11:31 Questions for Ben including his favourite book!
15:55 Will my reading tastes change when we live in Yorkshire?
19:39 What did I study at university/my dissertation topics?
23:13 Will I go back to university? Do I want to do a PhD?
25:21 How did I get my job in publishing? My career journey
26:41 Top tips to get a job in publishing!
28:09 What are my favourite classics (not including Jane Austen)?
29:30 Best classic for beginners? Where to start reading classics
30:21 Favourite reading format?
31:20 Favourite books (not including classics)?
31:57 Reading associations! Being a sensory reader
32:59 A Rooibos of One's Own! Shoutout to @CarolynMarieReads for this one!
33:16 How and why do I annotate my books?
34:23 Where did my love of history come from?
35:44 Who is my favourite of the six wives of Henry VIII?
36:22 First book I remember reading and childhood favourites!
37:32 What are my favourite book-to-movie adaptations?
38:55 Favourite books and TV shows?
39:28 Dream day with Paddington Bear?
39:58 Recommending a classic for each season!
40:44 Wedding regrets?
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41:56 A little moment for manuscript of Mrs Dalloway from SP Books
43:10 An emotional goodbye 😢
45:59 Thank you for watching!

❓ FAQ:
Where do you live? I live in York with my husband and two cats. Before moving to Yorkshire, I lived in London for 7 years!
What do you do for work? I work in marketing in book publishing
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA)
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the WW2 home front

#bookshelftour #classicliterature #booktube

COSY READING VLOG 📚🌸 Come book shopping with me at Londons oldest bookshop!

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-04-01 | Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the books herself... 📚 Subscribe @Claire_Fenby and follow me on Instagram http://bit.ly/CFenbyInstagram 💫

Book shopping vlog, Spring book haul and recent reads! A beautiful day in London visiting Hatchards in Piccadilly (London's oldest bookshop), Fortnum & Mason for a spot of tea and walking around the beautiful Royal parks in bloom 🌼

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Mrs Dalloway's walk & map
1:56 Spring & book shopping
8:13 Tea time
12:04 Book haul
17:51 Fortnum & Mason haul
19:31 Book mail!
22:08 Currently reading
23:58 Spring/April TBR
25:48 Thank you 🌸

Mrs Dalloway map by Literary Maps: literarymaps.com/products/mrs-dalloway-map
My video of Mrs Dalloway's walk: youtu.be/dGIuFm-uqSM?si=E-9Jmz5bAydRQoZU

Books mentioned 📖 Very much inspired by Miranda Mills @MirandaMills 💓
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield (Persephone Books)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (Vintage Classics - Heroine series)
Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain (HarperCollins)
Emma by Jane Austen (Norton Critical Edition)
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim (Penguin Modern Classics)
Rural Hours by Harriet Baker (Allen Lane)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Cranford Collection)

Places visited 🗺️ 📍 Westminster, London
Parliament Square (👋 Big Ben)
St James's Park
Green Park
Hatchards
Fortnum & Mason
Royal Academy of Art

Tea mentioned 🫖
Queen Anne by @Fortnums

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❓ FAQ:
Where do you live? I live in London with my husband and two cats
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry as a Head of Marketing
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA)
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and many more!

Book mail, currently reading & annotating books 📚

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-03-20 | Join me for a cosy, chatty vlog featuring exciting book mail, thoughts on annotating books and my love of maps! Please leave a question for my Q&A in the comments ❤️ Time stamps below 👇

0:00 Intro
1:05 New favourite tea from @BirdandBlendTea ☕️
2:08 Q&A
4:13 Leaving London
5:32 Home decor & book haul
9:10 Currently reading and annotating my books
11:23 Book mail thanks to @CoynieReads
13:04 Annotating and dog-earing my books 😨

Books mentioned:
Paddington by Michael Bond
The Lost Tudor Princess by Alison Weir (Vintage Books)
Emma by Jane Austen (MacMillan Collectors Library and Norton Critical Editions)
Reading it Wrong by Abigail Williams (PR Gift from Princeton University Press)

Mug: Oliver Bonas
Necklace: Pride and Prejudice @tattydevine x Chawton House
Cardigan: Althea bookshelves cardigan (PR gift) @JoanieClothing

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❓ FAQ:
Where do you live? I live in London with my husband Ben and two cats Sybil & Freyja
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry as a Head of Marketing
What did you study? I studied English Literature (specialising in the 18th Century) at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA)
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors and Georgians! I also have a fascination with the Blitz.

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Keywords: Leaving London, Moving to Yorkshire, Jane Austen reading vlog, How I annotate my books, Bird and Blend tea, London book haul, come book shopping with me in London, cosy catch up, booktube newbie, Emma by Jane Austen book review

All the books I want to read in 2024 📚 Jane Austen & lots of history books

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-03-14 | My 2024 TBR based on my favourite books of 2023 📚 If you're a history geek like me, this video is for you! Watch my top reads of last year here: youtu.be/Ez7W-FSNOnQ?si=2Vevf6NBxQUyw5hM

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📖 Books mentioned:
Pride and Prejudice & Emma by Jane Austen (Penguin Books UK)
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir (AD - gifted by Yale University Press)
The Strangest Family and The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow (William Collins)
Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (Penguin Classics
Princesses by Flora Fraser (John Murray)
George III by Andrew Roberts (Penguin)
The First Iron Lady by Matthew Dennison (William Collins)
Blood, Fire and Gold & Thorns, Lust and Glory by Estelle Paranque @ElleHistory (Ebury)
Game of Queens by Sarah Gristwood (Oneworld)
Haunting the Falcon by John Guy and Julia Fox (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox (W&N)
Bring up the Bodies & The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)
My video on Wolf Hall: youtu.be/ouDqBksNk-8?si=c0PuTMJeCRgyxefd
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom (Pan Mac)
Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, A Murder is Announced, Hercule Poirot's Christmas and Murder on the Orient Express (HarperCollins
Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon by Alison Weir (Headline Review)

❓ FAQ:
Where do you live? I live in London with my husband and two cats
What do you do for work? I work in the book publishing industry as a Head of Marketing
What did you study? I studied English Literature at York St. John University (BA) and University of York (MA)
Who are your favourite authors? I love Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie to name a few!
Favourite eras of history? I'm obsessed with the Tudors, Georgians and Victorians! I also love reading about the WW2 home front

Keywords: Tudor history books, books about Anne Boleyn, history booktube, history book reviews, nonfiction booktube, Jane Austen book haul, Regency era books, Rereading Pride and Prejudice, all the books I read in 2023, March TBR, April 2024 TBR, March 2024 book haul, HistoryHit, Agatha Christie book haul #historybooks #booktube

Come book shopping with me in London 📚 COSY READING VLOG

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-03-04 | A cosy day in London visiting my favourite book shops 🌼 Subscribe @Claire_Fenby and follow me on Instagram: http://bit.ly/CFenbyInstagram ✨ Tip me on on Ko-Fi: http://bit.ly/ClaireFenbyTipJar

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0:00 Hello 👋
0:21 A slow morning at home
0:57 Come book shopping with me!
1:05 Judd Books
1:53 Skoob Books
3:47 Waterstones Gower Street
6:28 Spring in Bloomsbury & visiting Virginia Woolf
7:39 March book haul
14:09 Reading update
17:00 Book unhaul and donating books
17:38 Visit my local secondhand book shop with me!
19:18 🌼

Books mentioned ✨
History books 📕
Young Elizabeth by Nicola Tallis (Michael O'Mara Books)
Mary Tudor by Anna Whitelock (Bloomsbury publishing)
Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders (Picador)
The Social Life of Books by Abigail Williams (Yale University Press)
Fiction 📖
Homecoming by Kate Morton - book rec thanks to Miranda Mills @MirandaMills (Pan MacMillan)
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (Bloomsbury Library - Bloomsbury Publishing x Waterstones Gower Street)
In Memoriam by Alice Winn (Penguin Books)

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Welcome to my booktube channel! I'm Claire 👋 I live in London and work in book publishing.
I love reading classics, history books and historical fiction! My favourite authors include Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, the Bronte sisters and Virginia Woolf. I'm a huge history geek so expect lots of chat about the Tudors and the Georgians! I have a BA in English Literature from York St. John University and an MA in Literary Studies specialising in the Eighteenth-Century from the University of York.

Keywords: Book shopping vlog, March book haul, reading vlog, tudor history books, Georgian history books, history booktube, Women's History Month book recommendations, London book shop, independent bookstore, secondhand bookstore, #bookshopping , #bookhaul , #booktube, National trust book shop, National Trust day out

Pack up all my books with me 📚 Why we’re leaving London & my chaotic book buying habits

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-02-26 | We're in the process of moving back to York so it was time to say goodbye to my rainbow bookshelves! If you like a chatty video plus chaotic packing, this one is for you 📚📦 Discussing why we're leaving London and my reading habits!

Rainbow bookshelf tour: youtu.be/3pp2pNFk6Jw
My classics collection bookshelf tour: youtu.be/qJx8zgd-vTs?si=PoG3AkIakOv2UZOX
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PSA - we're not moving just yet! The process of selling and buying has been (/still is) a very long one for us so don't expect a moving vlog any time soon BUT we're packing up the boxes early so the cats can get adjusted 📦

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Introduction to my channel ⬇️

Welcome to my booktube channel! I'm Claire 👋 I live in London and work in book publishing. I love reading classics and I'm a huge history geek! My favourite authors include Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, the Bronte sisters and Virginia Woolf 📚 I have a BA and MA in English Literature from York St. John University and University of York respectively.

Keywords: Packing up my books, book unhaul, moving to London, pack with me, leaving London and moving to Yorkshire, moving to london and working in publishing, tudor history books, historytube, reorganising my bookshelves, bookshelf tour, #booktube #bookshelftour

I went to Bath and bought too many Jane Austen things 📚✨ Haul & travel recs

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-01-14 | Never leave me in a Jane Austen gift shop unattended 😅 A few Regency-themed purchases from our lovely wintry trip to Bath! Featuring afternoon tea, bookshops and beautiful architecture.

Huge Jane Austen book haul from Chawton: youtu.be/QKmF511PTls?si=VWeYvrLm3WCgO5tM
Jane Austen's home in Chawton: youtu.be/rp1OeaGHCHk?si=04FaF4Mngh00rMUf
Our last trip to Bath: youtu.be/rSoxVRSIaqI?si=V8-kYCse_9Dy2Nli

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0:00 Introduction
1:00 Reading Sanditon & Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
4:48 Tea and breakfast at Sally Lunn's
8:33 Afternoon tea at the Jane Austen Centre
10:41 St Nicholas decorations and Jane Austen print
15:00 Book shopping and book haul

Places featured:
The Pump Room
Bath Abbey
Sally Lunn's
Jane Austen Centre
Toppings & Co Book Shop
Royal Crescent and the Circus
Pulteney Bridge
Prior Park Landscape Gardens

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Welcome to my booktube channel! I'm Claire 👋 I live in London and work in book publishing. I love reading classics and I'm a huge history geek (especially geeky about the Tudors and the Georgians)! My favourite authors include Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, the Bronte sisters and Virginia Woolf 📚

Keywords: Trip to Bath, Bath travel vlog, Visit Bath, 24hrs in Bath, Pride and Prejudice, Penguin clothbound classics, January 2024 book haul, Reading update, Jane Austen July 2024

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A slow Autumn in London 🍂 Book shopping, cosy cats and exhibitions | Autumn (2023) Snapshots

Claire Fenby-Warren 2024-01-02 | Every season I make a little home movie documenting my life - welcome to Autumn ✨ This will be our last Autumn as Londoners so we decided to spend more time in the city, visiting our favourite places from Bloomsbury to Hampstead.

Watch my last video: youtu.be/qUb4fd9Vcwg?si=zBnBXTN_PwZZXH5N
Watch last year's Autumn video: youtu.be/EXY1AeYknec?si=qM46a1AI73stA4Kc

Places visited 📍
0:00 Autumn at home
0:46 Natural History Museum & V&A Museum
1:55 Sir John Soane Museum, London Review Book Shop & the British Museum
3:30 The Postal Museum
4:37 Book shopping at Skoob Books & Judd Books in Bloomsbury
5:40 Mordern Hall Park & book shop
6:04 St Paul's Cathedral
6:43 House hunting trip to York
7:11 Sybil & Freyja
7:33 Ben's 30th Birthday
7:47 Keats's House & Hampstead Heath
9:45 Sybil & Freyja (again)
10:05 Trip on the London Eye
10:30 London South Bank
11:22 Fantasy Exhibition at the British Library
12:19 Holbein at the Tudor Court at the Queen's Gallery (Royal Collections Trust)
13:53 Christmas lights
14:07 Greenwich and Queen's House
14:43 Work trip to the Cotswolds
15:29 Winter is coming...

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Welcome to my booktube channel! I'm Claire 👋 I live in London and work in book publishing. I love reading classics and I'm a huge history geek! My favourite authors include Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, the Bronte sisters and Virginia Woolf 📚 I have a BA and MA in English Literature from York St. John University and University of York respectively.

A very nerdy summer ☀️ From Hampton Court to Virginia Woolfs house | Summer 2023

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-11-14 | The next instalment in my seasonal home video series ✨ My dream summer of book shopping and visiting historic houses!

Watch Spring: youtu.be/AMMxakNeLKU?si=JgVwrG2c42je7H3S

Featured this season:
0:00 Summer 2023
0:04 Putney & Fulham Palace gardens
0:30 Southwark Cathedral and Tracy Borman talk
0:53 South Bank & book market
1:47 St James's Park
2:21 National Portrait Gallery
3:12 Style & Society (Royal Collections Trust) exhibition
3:43 Feline interlude
4:35 Hampton Court Palace
5:38 Charleston Farmhouse (Vanessa Bell's home)
7:42 Monk's House (Virginia Woolf's home)
10:03 Kew Gardens
11:14 Brighton
12:18 Astley Book Farm

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Welcome to my booktube channel! I'm Claire 👋 I live in London and work in book publishing. I love reading classics and I'm a huge history geek! My favourite authors include Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, the Bronte sisters and Virginia Woolf. I have a BA and MA in English Literature from York St. John University and University of York respectively.

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My last Spring in London 🌸 Spring (2023) Snapshots

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-09-02 | The next instalment in my seasonal home video series ✨ This will be my last Spring in London so I wanted to treasure it! Featuring trips to a few literary landmarks and beautiful English cities 🌸

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Watch my winter video: youtu.be/C_ujlWbw0ls?si=Wsc2rSV5A74OKbhB

0:00 The start of Spring 🌸
0:17 Secondhand book shopping in South London 📚
Book haul: youtu.be/Mjy44Bqcrxk?si=yVwyLkSG8fwNi-li
0:42 Sybil and Freyja 🐈 🐈‍⬛
1:00 Book shopping in Camden and London Zoo with @ArielBissett 🦒
2:26 Visiting St Paul's Cathedral
3:05 Charles Dickens Museum with Ariel 🖊️
3:43 More cats
3:58 London Book Fair
4:17 Spring in South London 🌹
5:17 Jane Austen's House in Chawton 👒
Jane Austen vlog: youtu.be/rp1OeaGHCHk?si=qrIgfWqjYcHACctV
Book haul: youtu.be/QKmF511PTls?si=rkLiMaKuEdGHaMIK
5:58 Trip to beautiful Oxford
6:38 Anniversary trip to York 💍
Watch the full video: youtu.be/60gvSnV0J3E?si=72WT2vJlCM-2QvUq
Our wedding video: youtu.be/T_uE2jqBbDs?si=NHw96kxhPdbV3gIb
8:27 Post-Coronation London
9:09 The British Book Awards 📚
9:28 Family time in Northumberland
10:12 Home 🏡

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Welcome to my booktube channel! I'm Claire 👋 I live in London and work in book publishing. I love reading classics and I'm a huge history geek! My favourite authors include Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, the Bronte sisters and Virginia Woolf. I have a BA and MA in English Literature from York St. John University and University of York respectively.

A love letter to York ✨ Our first wedding anniversary

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-08-26 | I found a few clips from our trip to beautiful York for our wedding anniversary in May so wanted to create something to remember it by ❤️ So here is a little love letter to our favourite city!

Watch our wedding video: youtu.be/T_uE2jqBbDs?si=dpKgdSvr1o0JE0Yk

Places visited:
Chocolate making York Cocoa House
Book shopping at Minster Gate Books
York Minster Gardens/Dean's gardens
Inside York Minster
Buying a ghost at York Ghost Merchants
Having tea and cake at The Vanilla Cafe
Afternoon tea at Bettys
Falling in love with Betty the Kitten at The Cat's Whiskers cat café
St Mary's Abbey

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Why I love Jane Austen 🖊️ My favourite novels and characters

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-08-20 | I wanted to talk a little bit about my love for Jane Austen so here is the Jane Austen July tag one month late! Discussing my favourite novels, characters and a few book recommendations 📖

Books mentioned:
⭐️ The major works of Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park
⭐️ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
⭐️ The Other Bennett Sister by Janice Hadlow
⭐️ The Strangest Family by Janice Hadlow

The original Jane Austen July tag was created by @katiejlumsden and @BlatantlyBookish!

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Keywords: My favourite Jane Austen novels, My favourite classics, Jane Austen July 2023, book review, Eighteenth century book recommendations, regency novels, 18th century, Regency England, Studying Jane Austen, #JaneAusten, #classicliterature, #booktube Studying English Literature, classic literature,

Best books of the year so far 📚 Reading check-in 📖 Mid-year book freakout tag

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-07-27 | Let's have a reading check-in! Here are my best and worst books of the year so far 📖 Featuring lots of classics and history books as per usual!

Questions:
Best book you've read so far in 2023
Best sequel you've read so far in 2023
Best re-read of the year so far
New release you haven't read yet but you want to.
Most anticipated release for the second half of the year
Biggest disappointment
Biggest surprise
Favourite new author (debut/new to you).
Newest fictional crush - I accidentally skipped this question but my answer is Mr Darcy - of course!
Newest favourite character.
Book that made you cry.
Book that made you happy.
Most beautiful book you've bought/received so far this year.
What books do you need to read by the end of the year
Favourite video
Favourite content creators (list below)

Books mentioned:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Young Queens by Leah Redmond Chang
Hunting the Falcon by John Guy and Julia Fox
Six Queens: The Wives of Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Blood, Fire and Gold by Estelle Paranque
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman by Laurence Stern

Just a few of my must-watch bookish and geeky content creators ✨
@ElleHistory
@MirandaMills
@LucyJaneWood
@CarolynMarieReads
@katiejlumsden
@RoisinsReading
@CoynieReads
@abookolive
@RubyGranger8
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
@KDbooks
@lilsvintageworld
@ReadingThePast.
@GinaStanyerBooks
@SpinstersLibrary
@WhatVictoriaRead
@BobTheBookerer
@emmiereads

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Birthday book haul & chat 📚 History book recs & lots of Virginia Woolf ✨ What I got for my birthday

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-07-18 | Everything I bought and places I visited to celebrate my birthday 🎂 Featuring lots of history books, a few recent non-fiction recs and beautiful editions of Virginia Woolf's classic novels! More details and discount code below 👇

Places featured in this video (start of haul 0:00)
3:57 Tracy Borman talk at Southwark Cathedral
6:21 Hampton Court Palace (Historic Royal Palaces gift shop)
12:48 Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians exhibition at the Queen's Gallery
17:55 National Portrait Gallery
26:50 Virginia Woolf's home Monk's House & Vanessa Bells' home Charleston Farmhouse

22:43 Bag haul! The black twist lock saddle bag in this video was gifted to me by Zatchels! Don't forget to use my 10% discount code FEN10 (apply at checkout) or click this link bit.ly/ZatchelsDiscount 💼 Bags featured:
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Books featured in this video:
Three Queens by Leah Redmond Chang
Blood Fire and Gold by Estelle Paranque ⁠@ElleHistory (I LOVE her YouTube channel)
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I by Tracy Borman
Elizabeth's Women "
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives
The Royal Wardrobe by Rosie Harte ⁠@Rosie Harte
Love letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West
Selected diaries of Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out "
Anne Boleyn by Evelyn Anthony gifted to me by ⁠@ArielBissett

My Bloomsbury group in Sussex videos:
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Charleston Farm youtu.be/tG7E7Uoqmng

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Visiting one of my favourite book shops in London 📚 Happy Pride 🌈

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-06-27 | Just a girl buying more wlw books 📚

Bookish catch up with my husband 📚 Book haul & reading update | Independent Bookshop Week

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-06-22 | Just two geeks chatting about books! Book shopping in London with Ben for #IndieBookShopWeek 📖✨ From Wolf Hall to wolves... Our June reading update! Apologies for the slightly chaotic video but we had so much fun filming together! Enjoy ❤️

Book shops featured:
The Riverside Bookshop
Southbank book market

Books mentioned:
The Restless Republic by Anna Keay
Summer by Edith Wharton
Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Thomas Cromwell by Tracy Borman
The Rise and Rein of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte

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HUGE Jane Austen book haul 📚 Penguin Clothbound Classics, MacMillan Collectors Library & A BONNET!

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-06-05 | Adding a few more beautiful books to my classics collection ✨ Enjoy a HUGE haul featuring lots of pretty books and Jane Austen merch from her house in Chawton and beyond!
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Just in time for Jane Austen July 2023!

Timestamps 📖
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Visiting Jane Austen's house in Chawton
3:45 Book haul
4:05 My copy of Emma
4:58 Penguin Clothbound Classics haul
8:09 New PanMacMillan Collector's Library editions
10:19 Visiting Chawton House
10:32 Tatty Devine x Chawton House
10:54 Chawton House book hauk
12:18 BONNET
13:53 Book shopping in Oxford
15:05 Our first (very bookish) wedding anniversary
15:18 1995 Pride and Prejudice
16:21 Wedding anniversary gifts
18:10 MUG
18:39 Final thoughts
19:16 Outro

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Visit Jane Austen’s house with me 🖊

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-05-01 | Jane Austen is one of my favourite writers and visiting her home in Chawton was such a wonderful experience so I wanted to share this little video with all of you! I also visited Chawton House, the home of Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight ✨ Check out my #JaneAusten book haul: youtu.be/QKmF511PTls Just in time for #janeaustenjuly!

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Reading Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury 📖

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-04-20 | Pretending to be a member of the Bloomsbury group ❤️ Reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. What is your favourite Woolf novel? 📚 #booktube #virginiawoolf #reading

Winter in London ❄️ Book shopping, wintry walks and cosy cats ✨ Winter (2022) Snapshots

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-04-09 | My little seasonal home movies ✨ Snapshots from my winter (December-March) including lots of book shopping, wintry walks in London and time with family ❄️

📍 Places visited with feline interludes!
0:00 Wreath making in the Cotswolds
0:35 Greenwich: book shopping in the market, exploring the College and merry-go-round!
3:05 Buckingham Palace and Green Park
3:56 Book shopping at Waterstones Piccadilly and Hatchards
4:32 Christmas lights at Piccadilly and Oxford Street
5:48 Trafalgar Square at St James's park in the snow
7:37 Christmas at home with the cats!
8:48 Visiting my family in Northumberland
10:01 Adlington Hall and family time
10:48 St Albans and book shopping at St Albans

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I got a promotion so I bought some books 📚🌼 London second-hand book haul & publishing job news

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-04-02 | Celebrating a promotion by buying every book in London 📚 Visiting my favourite second-hand bookshop and treating myself to a huge pile of £1 books! Also featuring my new Barrel bags from Zatchels! Apply my discount FEN10 at checkout for 10% off (items over £40) or click this link bit.ly/ZatchelsDiscount 💼 Not sponsored or gifted!

✨ Timestamps ✨
Introduction: 0:00
Bag haul: 1:36
Book haul: 5:29
Come book shopping with me!: 18:19

📍 Mordern Hall Park & National Trust Stable Book shop
Books featured:
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (Penguin English Library edition)
Marriage by Susan Ferrier
Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War (pub by Virago)
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Royal Wedding: Ladybird Souvenir Book
Death comes to Pemberley by PD James
Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
The Cinder Path by Jane Austen

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Chatty bookish catch up 📚 Come book shopping with me in St Albans✨ Reading vlog & book haul

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-03-11 | Come with me to my favourite book shop 📚 A bookish catch up featuring my husband Ben, Sybil and our new kitten Freyja, baking, and book shopping at Books on the Hill in St. Albans! Keep watching for a book haul and a lil review of Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These ✨ Timestamps ⬇️

0:00 introduction
2:23 Meet the cats!
4:01 Currently reading and recent reads with Ben
11:14 Ben's Warhammer chat!
14:16 Chaotic baking segment
17:49 Visiting St Albans
18:51 Book shopping at Books on the Hill
21:13 Blind date with a book!
21:57 Book and homeware haul
28:30 Reading wrap up: Small Things Like These
29:54 Cosy evening and kittens

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Cosy autumn days 🍂 Meet our new kitten! | Autumn (2022) Snapshots | Romanticize life with me

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-01-09 | Snapshots from my Autumn including lots of book shopping and cats 🐱 My seasonal snapshots are a series of videos documenting my life through the seasons in a scrapbook-esque collection of clips. Capturing small joys, memorable trips and experiences as well as bigger life events. Start romanticising life with me! #travelvlog

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Featured in this video:
St Paul’s Cathedral
Bloomsbury (Full video: youtu.be/at3zagPwWNQ)
Whitstable
St James’s Park after the Queen’s death
Bath (Watch the full video: youtu.be/rSoxVRSIaqI)
Hever Castle & the Becoming Anne exhibition
Mordern Hall Park
York (Full video: youtu.be/-v-jpJTOM6s)
London Bridge & Borough Market with Ariel
Southwark Cathedral & meeting the famous Hodge!
Hampstead Heath & Kenwood House
Meet Freyja! Our new Bengal kitten 🐈

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My Jane Austen inspired trip to Bath | Afternoon tea and book shopping 📚

Claire Fenby-Warren 2023-01-02 | Travel back in time with me to Jane Austen's Bath (mainly because this was filmed in September!) 📖 I hope you enjoy this little travel vlog of one of the most beautiful cities in England ✨

Places featured in this video (my personal recommendations on where to visit/how to spend 24/48hrs in Bath):
Jane Austen's house in Bath
Persephone Books
Jane Austen Centre
Mr B's Emporium
Bath Abbey
Toppings & Company Bath (My new favourite book shop)
The Royal Crescent
Sally Lunn's Eating House
No.1 Royal Crescent
The Holburne Museum (featuring a painting of me in a past life)
Waterstones Bath

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Moving to York? 4 book shops and a little life update 🍂

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-11-09 | Come book shopping with me in York and discover the joy of a chocolate shot! ❤️ I'm really looking forward to sharing the next chapter of our lives with you as we start preparing to leave London! Lots more book shopping vlogs to come 📚

Here are my recommendations on 10+ things to do York and/or how to spend 24/48hrs in York!

Places (in order of appearance):
St Mary's Abbey
York Minster
Dean's Park/Minster gardens
Minster Gate Book Shop
Hebden Tea Experience
Monk Bar Chocolatiers
City walls & York St. John
Little Apple Book Shop
York Waterstones
Fossgate Book Shop
Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate
The Vintage Rose Café
St Mary's Abbey

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Come with me to one of my favourite book shops in Bath 📚 Persephone Books

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Cosy Autumn chat 🍂 Fall TBR & candle haul 📖 Ft lots of witchy books

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-09-26 | Get ready for autumn with me! A cosy TK Maxx/Home Sense haul and my seasonal TBR pile including Babel by R.F. Kuang and The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell 🍁 Watch if you like Gilmore Girls, dark academia and lots of books about witches! Please leave your autumn book recommendations in the comments 📚

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COSY READING VLOG! 10 years on booktube & book shopping in London 📚

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-08-25 | I recently celebrated 10+ years on #booktube so I wanted to mark it with a book shopping video featuring two of my favourite book shops in London (including Waterstones Gower Street) and a visit to a few Virginia Woolf related spots ✨

0:00 10 year celebrations
3:16 Trip to Waterstones Gower Street
4:54 Literary walk around Bloomsbury
5:38 Skoob Book Shop
6:24 More square haunting
6:31 Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Bloomsbury Library)

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Come with me to buy a very special book 📖

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-08-14 | Visiting my favourite Waterstones in London, Gower Street, to pick up a special edition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando ✨ Follow me on BookTok for more videos: tiktok.com/@claire_fenby

Once a bookseller, always a bookseller 📚❤️

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Birthday haul & trip 📚 Books, ghosts and my favourite places in York!

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-08-03 | 27 and still full of chaotic energy ✨ My visit to the Tower of London and York for my birthday! Featuring a book haul, souvenirs from York and my favourite places in the city including the York Ghost Merchants 👻

Books mentioned:
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Blood, Fire and Gold by Estelle Paranque
Matrix by Lauren Groff

Places mentioned:
The Tower of London & Superbloom
York Minster
Walmgate Ale House
York Cocoa House
York Merchant Adventurer’s Hall
The York Roast Co.
The Ghost Merchants
Museum Gardens
Minstergate Books
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Come with me to buy a ghost at the York Ghost Merchants 👻

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-07-28 | Visiting my favourite shop in York! @Claire_Fenby on TikTok

Come book shopping with me in London 📚 A new favourite book shop!

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-07-12 | A little book shopping short to visit BookBar (for the first time) in North London! The perfect way to spend a Saturday ☀️ You can find me on Tiktok as @Claire_Fenby for shorter bookish videos!

Our bookish honeymoon 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Book shopping in Edinburgh

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-07-11 | ↓OPEN ME↓ A few snapshots from our honeymoon in Edinburgh ❤️ Walking around the beautiful city and book shopping in 4+ book shops! #bookshopping #Edinburgh #travelvlog

Places in this vlog 🗺
Dean's Village & Water of Leith
Edinburgh Waterstones
Princes Street Gardens
Scottish National Gallery
Victoria Street
Palace of Holyrood
Calton Hill
Topping & Company Booksellers Edinburgh
Typewronger Books
Mary's Milk Bar
Miss Jean Brodie's steps
Greyfriar's Bobby statue
Transreal Fiction
Circus Lane
Golden Hare Books
Rare Birds Books
Edinburgh Castle

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COSY READING VLOG! Come book shopping with me in East London for Independent Book Shop Week ✨

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-06-28 | ↓OPEN ME↓ Last weekend I celebrated Indie Book Shop Week and went book shopping to a few of my favourite book shops in Shoreditch, East London 📚 Keep watching for a book haul!

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Introduction: 0:00
East London wanderings & vintage market: 0:44
The Brick Lane Book Shop: 1:26
Libreria: 2:17
The Common Press: 2:39
Goodnight Sweetheart moment (filming locations are at 0:55): 3:41
Book haul: 5:50
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead: 6:42
The House of Dudley by Dr Joanne Paul (As featured on Non Just the Tudors podcast): 7:52
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley (recommended by Katie @katiejlumsden): 9:46
Thread Needle by Cari Thomas: 11:11
Our wedding photo album (£15 discount link below): 12:59

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Mrs Dalloways walk | A day in the life of my favourite classic 📖 Virginia Woolfs London

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-06-19 | Spending a day inside my favourite classic 🥰
Come with me on Clarissa Dalloway's walk through London with extracts from Virginia Woolf's beautiful novel ✨ Featuring Westminster, Hatchards Book Shop and Regent's Park 📖 Watch my video analysing Mrs Dalloway and a more detailed tour of Virginia Woolf's London: youtu.be/-MCfdK5BgBo

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Our wedding ❤️📍 York

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-06-12 | WE GOT MARRIED! A few personal clips from our trip to York and wedding ceremony including our readings and best man's speech ✨ We really hope you enjoy it.

You can watch our wedding video (filmed by our photographer) here: youtu.be/T_uE2jqBbDs

✨ Our wedding vlog - timestamps ✨
0:00 Meet my husband! Introduction with Ben
5:21 Exploring York
7:44 Our wedding ceremony
8:23 All I know about love by Neil Gaiman
12:03 Ariel's reading of Emma by Jane Austen
13:43 First kiss and evening reception
15:20 Best man's speech!
17:36 Final days in York & off on our honeymoon

Places in this video 🗺
York Minster & Dean's Garden
York Art Gallery
Minster Gate Books (my favourite book shop in York)
York St. John University (where we met)
St Mary's Abbey
York Register Office
Chopping Block restaurant at Walmgate Ale House
The Vanilla Cafe
Clifford's Tower

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Honeymoon in Paris ✨ Book shops, Monet and museums

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-05-30 | A few snapshots from our honeymoon in Paris ❤️ We spent the last weekend of our honeymoon in Paris visiting a few of our favourite places including some beautiful book shops (Shakespeare and Company and Librairie Galignani). We also finally got to see Monet's Nymphéas (Water Lilies) at Musée de l'Orangerie and visit Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 🦕

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Music: Clair De Lune (Felt Piano, Rhodes, and Drum Machine Arr.)
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Reader, I married him ❤️ OUR WEDDING VIDEO 📍 York

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-05-06 | Just two geeks who fell in love 📚 Ben & I finally got married! We walked down the aisle on our 6th anniversary in the city where we first met.

📸 Filmed and edited by the wonderful Sophie at Sophie Ann Photography: sophieannphotography.co.uk

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A few of our notable mentions 👰‍♀️
Leanne at the York Register Office for making our ceremony so special!
Photographer and videography: Sophie Ann Photography @sophieannphotography
Book wedding favours: Bookishly Ltd @BookishlyUK
Dress: My Nana's with restoration and alterations by the lovely Nanna at Splendid Stitches @splendidstitches
Bouquets: The Origami Boutique @origamiboutique
Pride and Prejudice Bag: WellReadCo @wellreadco
My beautiful Canadian maid of honour: Ariel Bissett @ArielBissett

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Keywords: York Registry Office wedding, York Register Office, York wedding, Yorkshire wedding, bookish wedding, geeky wedding, Vintage wedding dress, York St John, YSJ Alumni, Bettys York, Visit York, Small wedding, Pride and Prejudice, literary wedding

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Meet my maid of honour! Books and tea with Ariel Bissett 📖🍪

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-04-27 | Book shopping, afternoon tea and a miscellaneous chat! @ArielBissett is in town for my wedding so we celebrated by having a beautiful afternoon tea and book shopping in London. Stay tuned for a little haul and lots of chaotic energy 📚

Time stamps ⏰

✨ Introduction ✨
0:00
✨ London ✨
On the tube 1:21
Afternoon tea at The Coral Room: 1:34
Waterstones Tottenham Court Road: 3:31
Carnaby Street and EL&N cafe: 4:18
Gosh! comics: 4:36
Foyles, Charing Cross Road: 4:46
✨Miscellaneous chat and haul✨
Miscellaneous chat: 5:26
Chatting about the afternoon tea: 5:27
Miscellaneous haul: 9:13
Book haul: 15:57
Favourite books & Word on the Water: 20:50
Tim Tams and cookies from EL&N: 23:32
✨ Thank you for watching! ✨ 31:29

Check out Ariel's podcast 🎧 booksunboundpodcast.com

Music:
Flowers by Lukrembo
Teapot by Lukrembo

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COSY READING VLOG! My bookish bacholerette 📖👰‍♀️ Afternoon tea and book shopping in London!

Claire Fenby-Warren 2022-04-19 | A few bookish pre-wedding celebrations ✨ Come with me for a beautiful afternoon tea at Fortnum and Masons and book shopping at Hatchards! Featuring a small Penguin Clothbound Classics haul thanks to a Waterstones double stamp weekend 📖

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:01 Tea haul
1:36 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
3:07 Emma by Jane Austen
4:12 Green Park
4:51 Afternoon Tea (Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon)
6:21 Hatchards Book shop
6:46 Waterstones Piccadilly
7:35 My two books
7:46 Tip me on Ko-Fi

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