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.
By Else Else got so enthusiastic about this theme that she created a list that was way too long, but in the end she did manage to whittle it down to 12 very interesting titles. Yesterday we presented 4 of those 12, and today we present the other 8. If you [...]
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 [...]
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Winner of the 2024 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and Winner of the 2024 Shirley Jackson Award for Novel. A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a [...]
By Else Two weeks after Made in Asia we traveled to another convention to set up our pop-up bookstore, this time in the lovely Ghent at FACTS, Belgium’s largest Comic Con. This means a group of four very nerdy booksellers (Tiemen, Sywert, Jonna and me) made a road trip from Amsterdam [...]
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 [...]
By Else Every year, the ABC does a couple events out “in the wild”; basically setting up a pop-up bookstore on location, be it a convention, The Next Web, or at a school fair. In the middle of March, we set up a pop-up bookstore at Made in Asia 2025 in [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
