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Bookbits for 5 February 2025

By Sophie If these Bookbits appear a little disjointed, please forgive me: I've been counting books for the past 3 days on account of inventory and may still have little flashbacks (2-15-3 times). - Perhaps a little unsurprisingly, Publishers Weekly reports a spike in US sales of dystopian novels in January 2025, [...]

Sophie2025-02-04T21:56:02+01:00Tags: Awards, Black History Month, Bookbits, Dystopian, fallen heroes, Interviews, Jane Austen, lists, literary puzzle, Sophie|

Book review: I Who Have Never Known Men

Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. [...]

Lilia2025-02-11T15:40:07+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fiction, General Fiction, Jacqueline Harpman, Matty|

Lunar Year of the Snake

By Naomi Today January 29th, we welcome the Year of the Snake. This year looks to be a year of wisdom, adaptability and it will bring a sense of transformation. We've got a couple of colleagues whose Lunar zodiac sign is a snake, and for them this year will bring many [...]

Lilia2025-01-19T12:59:08+01:00Tags: Ariel Hsu, Carissa Broadbent, Crime Fiction, Darcie Little Badger, Fantasy, Fiction, Howard Linskey, Kate Pearsall, Kids, Lindsay Straub, Manga, Naomi, Nna Natsuo, Romantasy, Sher Lee, Young Adult|

Nexus

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies The internet promised infinite knowledge The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other What will AI do? Nexus is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive – and to thrive.

Lilia2025-02-11T15:40:11+01:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, AI, Book review, Book Reviews, History, Science, Tiemen, Yuval Noah Harari|

Lunar Year of the Dragon: ends and beginnings

By Lília As the Year of the Dragon comes to an end, we think of all the books about or with dragons that we would have liked to read or recommend during the year, even if we might not have the time to read them all. We have our preferences, but [...]

Lilia2025-01-28T11:58:00+01:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Christopher Paolini, Evan Winter, Fantasy, George R.R. Martin, Highlights, John Gwynne, Juvenile Fiction, Lília, Lunar Year of the Dragon, Samantha Shannon, Tui Sutherland, Young Adult|

This is How You Lose the Time War

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That's how war works. Right?'

Lilia2025-02-11T15:40:14+01:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Book review, Book Reviews, Damla, Science Fiction|

ABC Bestsellers 2024

2024 was a year full of surprises and wonderful new titles in the book world. From The Creative Act to Intermezzo, Before the Coffee Gets Cold became a great success, Haunting Adeline surprised many of us, and the small classic White Nights turn to be a bestseller almost the whole year [...]

Triple take: I Who Have Never Known Men

One of our best-selling titles from 2024, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, is one of our biggest bookseller-driven bestsellers. What does that entail, you might ask? Well, our colleague Matty loved this book so much she couldn't stop recommending it to anyone within earshot, customers and staff members [...]

Lilia2025-02-11T15:40:18+01:00Tags: ABC Bestseller 2024, ABC Bestsellers, Book review, Bruna, Else, Fiction, General Fiction, Matty|

Winter in Wartime

During the Second World War, the Netherlands is still under Nazi control and any acts of resistance are punishable by death. But when sixteen-year-old Michiel is asked to take care of a wounded British Spitfire pilot he doesn't think twice. He joins the secret struggle against the Nazis, working every day to end the occupation and protect those in danger from it, knowing all the time that spies are everywhere and one loose word could cost him his life...

Lilia2025-02-11T15:40:22+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Dutch author, Dutch Fiction, Jan Terlouw, Molly Quell, Translated Fiction, Young Adult|

Poetry year-round

By Lília I’ll tell you how the Sun rose by Emily Dickinson I’ll tell you how the Sun rose – A Ribbon at a time – The Steeples swam in Amethyst – The news, like Squirrels, ran – The Hills untied their Bonnets – The Bobolinks – begun – Then I [...]

Lilia2025-07-24T11:40:21+02:00Tags: Allie Esirie, Lília, Poetry, Poetry Collections|

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