By Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 5: Robinson - Zusak To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
By Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 4: McCarthy - Reid To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
By Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 3: Jimenez - Martine To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
By Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 2: Eggers- Jemisin To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past 25 [...]
By Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 1: Abercrombie - Dunstall To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
Written by Sophie Happy (?) April Fool's Day! Our Jouke's favorite day of the year, so good luck to everyone who has to work in the The Hague store today... - One of the biggest literary news stories to break over the past month was The Atlantic's article about Meta's pirating [...]
By Sophie On Friday 4 April acclaimed author Russell Shorto will spend an afternoon at ABC Amsterdam to present and sign his newest release Taking Manhattan. He has close ties to the Netherlands, having lived here for quite a few years while he was researching his work and director of the [...]
Written by Sophie. Last year I wrote about reading along with the 2023 Ursula K. le Guin Prize shortlist. Reading along has become something of an annual literary pilgrimage for me since the prize's inception in 2022, so I'm writing about it again (and again as long as the ABC Blog [...]
The Monstress series is an on-going comic book series, currently on issue #55. The first 54 issues have been collected in nine omnibus editions, starting with Monstress, vol. 1: Awakening. Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, Monstress tells the [...]
By Sophie March is traditionally a month that features particularly many new fiction releases. We've rounded up 12 books being published in March - and 1 in April - that we are very excited about. Some of them are eagerly anticipated by many folks, others just by us, really, but we [...]
