Here at ABC our experts always strive to bring the best to our customers and let you know what we love. We also get an inkling at what books you love through our monthly(ish) Bestseller lists, compiled from the lists of our three stores. We love to share this with you, [...]
As a people-pleasing gay man, thirty-year-old music lawyer Domenic Marino is an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends: handsome sports attorney Patrick Cooper and glamorous beauty editor Kate Wallace. But this summer—reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending both their bachelor and bachelorette parties at the Cooper family’s idyllic shoreline estate in Mystic, Connecticut—Dom is anxious about having to play both sides.
We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk to Martijn, one [...]
By Lauren October 14 is Columbus Day in the US, the holiday marking the date that the explorer/colonizer first stepped foot on what would later become the US, Central and South America. (He actually landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, but a bank holiday is a bank holiday.) In [...]
By Naomi At ABC, we pride ourselves on being booklovers, and the Booklover Box is a great way for us to express that. The Booklover Box is a carefully curated selection of books and merchandise based on the size and genre chosen by a customer. It makes for a great gift for [...]
Last month, I had the absolute pleasure of working with the team at ABC in something non-book related. They asked for nothing in return except my permission to share the story, and so here I am, trying to give you a first-hand experience of what ABC means to me. I come from [...]
Two eccentric orphans bring together a grumpy viscount and the free-spirited heroine who steals his heart in the first novel in Eloisa James’s new Accidental Brides series, in which haughty aristocrats find themselves married to the wrong women. He wants a nanny, not a bride… She wants to marry for love… When the arrogant viscount finds that his viscountess has stolen his heart, he’ll have to give all he has to win her love.
We decided to play the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talked to IrisW, [...]
Today we present one of the titles we mentioned last week: Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez. Colleagues Sophie and Damla have read it and can't recommend it enough. Damla How did we manage to build a world where we ignore half the [...]
On September 16 The Booker Prize 2024 Shortlist was finally announced! As mentioned on their website: "The shortlist includes five women, authors from five countries, and stories which transport readers around the world and beyond Earth's atmosphere." The list includes a retelling of Huckleberry Finn, a title that also made the [...]
