Put together by Lília Written by EmmaS, Bob, Isabelle, IrisM, Maria and Naomi. In this Part 4 of our Staff Choices we again present titles chosen by ABC colleagues, and everyone has their own reasons for loving them. Read on to see what they are. You might even find one or [...]
Written by Naomi The days are getting shorter and darker, which means it’s the perfect time to light some candles, get comfortable under a blanket and pick up a cozy crime novel! The world can be bleak enough, so sometimes you want to read a book, knowing that in the end [...]
Luke and Iris discuss books and interview author Natali Simmonds. In the new season of our ABC Staff Picks, Luke and Iris are back discussing the books they and their colleagues are loving right now. They also interview author Natali Simmonds about her new book, Good Girls Die [...]
Written by Naomi Manga is by nature a very visual medium, which means it’s excellent source material for movies and tv series. Adaptations are either animated (anime) or live-action. There have been many adaptations of manga (Japanese), manhwa (Korean) and manhua (Chinese) series. Given that there are many manga series in [...]
Written by Lauren Norwegian author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called his "innovative plays and prose which gives voice to the unsayable." The 64-year-old's major works, written in the Nynorsk variation of Norwegian, include the Septology [...]
Written by Natalia There are many reading challenges out there, with the most well-known ones on Goodreads or The StoryGraph. You can set your own goal to read a certain number of books or pages by the end of the year or challenge yourself to read more classics, more female authors [...]
Dutch youngsters are more likely to pick up a book and read than they were five years ago, according to new research by book industry body KVB Boekwerk (article in Dutch). The organisation says almost half of 12 to 25-year-olds will now read a book at least once a week, compared [...]
Written by Lauren The Financial Times and Schroeders Group (investment managers) just announced the shortlist for their 2023 Business Book of the Year. The six finalists, awarded to the author(s) of the book providing the “most compelling and enjoyable” insight into the most pressing business issues of the day, include works [...]
Written by Lauren Author and New York Times culture writer Nina Siegal has written four books, three novels including The Anatomy Lesson, and most recently, the nonfiction The Diary Keepers, the story of World War II as told through the words of ordinary Dutch residents who lived through it. A native [...]
Written by Lília I’m not the biggest nonfiction fan, but some stories are so compelling they expand my genre-reading. The following books, all which deal with pressing issues of our times, have been turned into some pretty incredible movies. Whether you prefer to read about them (like me), or see them [...]
