by Lília 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 [...]
Summer is finally here, and we hope it will last for more than two weeks. To provide you with an even more summery atmosphere, we’ve asked Tom, our The Hague and Leidschendam expert in cookbooks—and also our expert in travel books and almost everything about the Netherlands!—to give us a short [...]
by Lília 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 [...]
by Naomi A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Amor Towles’ novel A Gentleman in Moscow has been made into a tv series that started airing in March. The book follows Count Rostov, who was sentenced to house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922. He [...]
by Lília Continuing with the celebration of our 52 years of existence, our Iris and Luke asked colleagues for their book recommendations for the occasion. Most of them revolved around the lives of normal people in somewhat exceptional settings (reminiscent of ABC!), with overcoming adversity a prominent theme. No one chose [...]
by Lília 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 [...]
We are celebrating the launch of BookBuzz today! Friday, May 10th 17:00-18:30 ABC Amsterdam, Spui 12 1012XA Come join us and Stefaan, one of the brains behind BookBuzz, to get to know the app, ask questions, and talk books. During our birthday weekend, you might have [...]
by Lauren The 2024 winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were announced earlier this week at New York’s Columbia University. Read on to see what they are and what the jurists had to say about them. Fiction Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips “A beautifully rendered [...]
by Lília After a little time off to smell the spring flowers, we’re back with our staff picks! Our Luke and Iris love doing them: they get to ask our colleagues what they’re reading and loving and what our customers are enjoying, and of course, they get [...]
by Lauren Always looking for good book recs, we at ABC love spring’s literary award season. Last week, the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist was announced in recognition of “the best works of literature originally written in languages other than English which have been translated and published in the UK or [...]
