By Sophie Every so often we want to share what we're currently reading, watching, and/or listening to. We hope you'll enjoy our choices! Tiemen: Reading: I'm currently reading part 4 of The Dungeon Crawler Carl series to my wife. Every evening I read about half an hour of DCC before [...]
By Sophie - Awards! The Eisner Awards for best comics and graphic novels were announced at the San Diego Comic Con last month. There are approximately 12 million categories, but one to highlight is Best Single Issue, won by Joe Sacco for The War on Gaza. Another recently-awarded prize with a [...]
by Sophie Welcome to the middle of the summer, up here in the Northern Hemisphere at least. Like last month, escapism reigns supreme, with lots of Romance, Romantasy, and Fantasy titles making a (re)appearance - local author Rachel Lynn Solomon's What Happens in Amsterdam is just flying off the shelf in [...]
By Claudio Summer Writers Night: our MC Claudio I'm still buzzing from our Summer Writers' Night on July 2nd! Despite the hot weather and the tropical downpour that followed it that evening, we had a great turn-out, more than expected. And as always, I'm happy and thankful to see [...]
The Booker Prize 2025 longlist © Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize Foundation by Sophie It's only 29 July, but autumn is surely around the corner because the Booker Prize just announced its longlist! The Booker Prize is one of the most influential prizes in the annual literary calendar, [...]
by Sophie A few weeks ago we posted about our ABC Summer Bingo cards, and, curious booksellers that we are, we want to know: have you had a bingo yet? Are you still to start on your bingo quest? Are you going for a simple bingo or a full-on card black-out? [...]
On Saturday 5 July, Dutch newspaper NRC published an article on Cozy and Healing Fiction (Koffiebar, dode kat, happy end)(please note, article in Dutch and may be behind a paywall), in which they interviewed our Bella (with a cameo by Tiemen)! We're posting an English translation of the part of the article [...]
by Sophie Well, summer is here, as we noticed with a brief heat wave last week! And it is reflected in our June bestsellers because half the books are serious summery reads in the Romance and Romantasy category. As per usual, some titles on the list carried over from last [...]
By Lauren Who owns the future? (Hint: It could be us) ABC’s new partnership with the John Adams Institute (JAI) got off to an inspiring start on 17 June with a talk on tech, imagination and inequity in the 21st century, where audiences were tasked with pondering how tech might be reimagined [...]
By Sophie Apparently today marks the exact mid-point of the half-century: from tomorrow, we will officially be closer to 2050 than to 2000. Hope that factoid helps cool your brains in this warm weather! - Awards! Dutch author Yael van der Wouden won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction with The Safekeep. [...]
