Life as a Bookseller Archives

Book review: The Reformatory

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 [...]

Lilia2025-05-11T12:17:06+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Else, Horror, Prize winners, Tananarive Due|

ABC In the Wild: FACTS 2025 spring

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 [...]

Sophie2025-05-11T08:43:31+02:00Tags: ABC in the Wild, convention, Else, facts, Jonna, klokke roeland, pop-up bookstore, Sywert, Tiemen|

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 [...]

Lilia2025-04-03T16:48:27+02:00Tags: ABC interview, Dungeon Master, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Keith Lowe, Marcus Pfister, Meghan Hunter, Mike, Patrick Rothfuss, Picture Books, Plays, Self-Help, Sheldon Kopp, William Shakespeare|

ABC in the Wild: Made in Asia 2025

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 [...]

Lilia2025-03-20T10:32:42+01:00Tags: ABC in the Wild, Else, Made in Asia, Made in Asia 2025|

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 [...]

Lilia2024-11-17T12:07:34+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, [...]

Lilia2024-10-01T12:46:19+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Autism, board books, Fantasy, Fashion, Lília, magazines, Nalini Singh, Psychology, S.K. Dunstall, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Ursula K. Le Guin|

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, [...]

Lilia2024-11-25T10:27:56+01:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Ann Leckie, Discworld, Fantasy, Feminism, General Fiction, Literary Criticism, Maggie O'Farrell, Radch Empire, Roland Barthes, Roos van Rijswijk, Sandra Gilbert, Science Fiction, Sophie, Sports, Susan Gubar, Terry Prachett, Ursula K. Le Guin|

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 [...]

Lilia2024-10-04T12:27:07+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Alice Coldbreath, Contemporary Romance, Fantasy Romance, Historical Fantasy Romance, Historical Mystery Romance, Historical Romance, India Holton, Jackie Lau, Law, Naomi, Romance, Romantasy, Romantic Fiction, True Crime|

ABC Interview: Damla

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 Damla, one [...]

Lilia2024-09-23T10:39:36+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Book nooks, Damla, Haruki Murakami, Italo Calvino, V.E.Schwab|

ABC Interview: Steven

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 Steven, our [...]

Lilia2024-10-04T12:32:03+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Armistead Maupin, Boardgames, Brandon Sanderson, David Sedaris, Douglas Adams, Falkor, Fantasy, Gay and Happy, General Non-Fiction, J.R.R. Tolkien, Juvenile Fiction, Michael Ende, Michale Ende, Science Fiction, Steven, Steven van Lijnden|

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