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Book Review: The Rise and Fall of The Dinosaurs

The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. A thrilling re-evaluation of the creatures that ruled the earth for 150 million [...]

Damla2025-10-09T17:20:52+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Damla, History, Nature, Non-Fiction|

New genre watch: Healing Fiction

By Naomi Healing fiction is a genre that has gained a lot of popularity recently. That could be because there is so much happening in the world, and maybe people want to escape into a book that is gentle and warm and welcoming. We are also heading into the cold and [...]

Naomi2025-11-14T13:24:17+01:00Tags: Bella, Healing Fiction, Japanese Fiction, Korean Fiction, Naomi, Translated Fiction|

Book Review: What You Are Looking For Is In The Library

What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it. Which book will you recommend? by Bella [...]

Damla2025-10-25T16:35:23+02:00Tags: Bella, Book review, Book Reviews, cozy fiction, Fiction, Japanese Fiction, Michiko Aoyama|

Blind Book Bundles for Thanksgiving

by Else & Iris Iris Thanksgiving is a long-standing tradition at ABC, and this year we are once again celebrating with fun activities, baked goods, and extra discount for all customers (check out the full itineraries of our Amsterdam, The Hague and Leidschendam stores on our Events Page!). In recent years, [...]

Iris W2025-11-08T13:59:23+01:00Tags: Blind Book Bundles, Blind Book Dates, Else, Iris, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 2025|

The Art of Heists

By Naomi Are you still thinking about the recent art heist at the Louvre Museum, where four men stole eight French crown jewels in under eight minutes? So are we! We’ve rounded up some fiction and non-fiction titles so you can relive that thrill again and again. Non-fiction [...]

Naomi2025-11-07T12:54:01+01:00Tags: Fiction, Naomi, Non-Fiction, Young Adult|

Bookbits for 6 November 2025

By Sophie No Bookbits last month (vacation), but I'm happy to be diving into the book news again today! - Awards! Hot off the press: Helen Garner has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with How to End a Story, her diaries detailing her life as a writer (and [...]

Sophie2025-11-07T15:21:23+01:00Tags: Awards, doorstoppers, Halloween, Interviews, lists, reviews, Sophie|

Else rereads: back to Malazan (pt. 3)

by Else (This is the third installment in an ongoing series. You can read part 1 here, and part 2 here.) Welcome back to the series that is going to go on for so long, at the end you'll be sick of me. But I still won't be sick of my [...]

Iris W2025-11-06T20:19:32+01:00Tags: Book review, Else, malazan book of the fallen, Memories of Ice, series review, Steven Erikson|

ABC Bestsellers – October 2025

Many bestsellers in October were titles just released in September, such as SenLinYu's Alchemised, Ian McEwan's What We Can Know, Richard Osman's The Impossible Fortune and Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets. Among the books published in September that were also bestsellers in October is Falling in Love While Stuffing a [...]

Lilia2025-11-03T12:45:36+01:00Tags: ABC Bestsellers, ABC Bestsellers 2025, Calendars, Classics, Crime Fiction, Dark Romance, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, film and TV tie-ins, History, Horror, Iris, IrisW, Romance, Romantasy, Tiemen|

Book Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place. Her name is Auri, and she [...]

Damla2025-10-25T16:11:23+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fantasy, Mike, Patrick Rothfuss|

Trade-In Days at the ABC

Give Your Books a Second Life – Join Our Trade-In Days at ABC The Hague by Júlia If your shelves are breaking under the weight of books while your wish list keeps growing, and you simply need more space – the ABC has you covered! Just join us for [...]

Damla2025-11-02T16:31:14+01:00Tags: ABC Events, ABC The Hague, Júlia, Trade-In Days|

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