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Jane Austen Retellings

By Naomi We're continuing to celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen was born! Jane Austen has inspired many, many authors over the years. Her work is still relevant and influential to this day. You can read more about the enduring appeal and influence of her work here. In this blogpost, we [...]

2025-07-21T15:16:57+02:00Tags: , |

D&D Evening in The Hague

by Damla Roll for initiative! Last Thursday, our store in the Hague hosted its first Dungeons and Dragons game night in collaboration with Dobbelgangers, a group of Dungeon Masters dedicated to bring the magic to wherever they go. For those who are new to the role playing games scene, Dungeons and [...]

2025-07-24T13:32:50+02:00Tags: , , , , , |

250 Years of Jane Austen

By Naomi 2025 is a very special year, because 250 years ago, on December 16, 1775, the author Jane Austen was born! She passed away on July 18, 1817, so we’re celebrating the whole month of July with some blogposts about the enduring appeal of her work and writing. In [...]

2025-07-24T11:23:44+02:00Tags: , , , |

How’s Your ABC Summer Bingo Going?

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? [...]

2025-07-14T16:07:48+02:00Tags: , , |

Coffee bar, dead cat, happy end: our Bella interviewed for NRC

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 [...]

ABC Bestsellers – June 2025

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 [...]

2025-07-07T10:25:14+02:00Tags: |

ABCxJAI: Who Owns the Future?

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 [...]

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