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Life as a Bookseller

The life of a bookseller is a multi-faceted beast that can be hard to explain sometimes. So with this category, we try to give you the reader as much insight into who we are and what we love as we can.

Expecting a chill in publishing: Why it matters

By Lynn As booksellers, we are sometimes asked by customers to add or withdraw certain titles from our assortment due to hot social or political issues. Our browsers have even been known to turn some books face-backwards (including those on Trump, Musk, the Middle East and Korea). Someone even recently suggested [...]

2025-05-18T17:40:03+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , |

ABC Interview: Mike

As a new colleague Mike didn’t have the chance to take part in our Q&A game last year. He was very interested in doing it anyway, so we asked him the same bookish questions and he answered them all. Mike is our Dungeon Master extraordinaire and part of the D&D initiative [...]

2025-04-03T16:48:27+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Consciousness books – a curated short list

By Jilles In the seventies and eighties it was called Spirituality and people turned their noses up, thinking it had something to do with witches and patchouli-smelling hippies. After Louise Hay came on the scene with her books and started a successful publishing company called Hay House, these books became known as [...]

2024-11-17T12:07:34+01:00

ABC Interview: Lília

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 Lília, blogmistress, [...]

2024-10-01T12:46:19+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

ABC Interview: Sophie

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 Sophie, [...]

2024-11-25T10:27:56+01:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

ABC Interview: Naomi

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 Naomi, part [...]

2024-10-04T12:27:07+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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