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’tism the season: recommendations for Autism Acceptance Month

By Naomi & Iris April is Autism Acceptance Month! This is the perfect moment to highlight some fiction titles featuring neurodivergent characters and autistic authors. If you're looking for some non-fiction books to better understand yourself, a loved one, or just learn more about autism, check out this blogpost. [...]

Naomi2025-04-04T15:03:48+02:00Tags: Alice Franklin, Autism, Autism Acceptance Month, General Fiction, India Holton, IrisW, Malka Older, Martha Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Naomi, Romantasy, Sayaka Murata, Science Fiction, Sophie|

Bookbits for 1 April 2025

Written by Sophie Happy (?) April Fool's Day! Our Jouke's favorite day of the year, so good luck to everyone who has to work in the The Hague store today... - One of the biggest literary news stories to break over the past month was The Atlantic's article about Meta's pirating [...]

Sophie2025-04-01T11:54:02+02:00Tags: Awards, Banned Books, Bookbits, Damla, Interviews, Jane Austen, Jouke, lists, literary villains, podcast, Simone, Sophie|

Book review: The Dance of Shadows

The Dance of Shadows by Rogba Payne High fantasy inspired by West African spirituality that follows a young musician drawn into a battle between gods. Perfect for fans of S. A. Chakraborty, Joe Abercrombie and Marlon James's Black Leopard, Red Wolf. By Else This book is [...]

Lilia2025-03-27T16:27:48+01:00Tags: African Mythology inspired Fantasy, Book review, Book Reviews, Elle, Fantasy, Rogba Payne, Staff Choice, West African Mythology|

Book review: Ready or Not

Ready or Not by Cara Bastone A surprise pregnancy leads to even more life-changing revelations in this heartfelt, slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance of found family and unexpected love. Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy and close to her childhood best friend Willa, but [...]

Lilia2025-04-03T16:50:40+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Cara Bastone, Enemies-to-Lovers, Naomi, Romance, Romantic Fiction|

Topical Tips: Whistleblowers

by Damla “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott [...]

Damla2025-03-27T10:39:47+01:00Tags: Business, Damla, Non-Fiction, Nonfiction, Politics, Social Media, Technology, Topical Tips|

Book review: The Story of Art Without Men

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers [...]

Lilia2025-03-16T18:32:09+01:00Tags: Art, Feminist Writer, Feminist Writing, Katy Hessel, Sophie|

Reading along with the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize shortlist

Written by Sophie. Last year I wrote about reading along with the 2023 Ursula K. le Guin Prize shortlist. Reading along has become something of an annual literary pilgrimage for me since the prize's inception in 2022, so I'm writing about it again (and again as long as the ABC Blog [...]

Sophie2025-03-24T19:00:11+01:00Tags: alaya dawn johnson, alissa hattman, anne de marcken, Book review, Book Reviews, Emily Tesh, Fantasy, Fiction, micaiah johnson, Nghi Vo, premee mohamed, Prize winners, Readalong, Samantha Harvey, sarah cypher, Science Fiction, Sophie, Ursula K. Le Guin, vajra chandrasekera, Young Adult|

Book review: The Vanished Birds

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez A solitary ship captain, drifting through time. Nia Imani is a woman out of place. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. The scarred boy does not speak, his only form of communication the haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. A millennia-old [...]

Lilia2025-03-12T19:33:25+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Else, found family, Science Fiction, Simon Jimenez|

5 Books on Women’s Sexuality

By Lília We talk a lot about equality for women, equal pay, ownership of our own bodies, but we tend to keep sexuality apart. Maybe because in many cultures people don't discuss it in any form. But mostly because if women take over their own sexuality, they can and will ask [...]

Lilia2025-03-11T16:27:17+01:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Anonymous, Dossie Easton, Emily Nagoski, Female Sexuality, Gillian Anderson, Janet W. Hardy, Lília, Margot Anand, Nancy Friday, Sexuality, Women's History Month|

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|

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