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Halloween / Samhain

By Renata Autumn has arrived, the days are starting to get shorter, everywhere we begin to see the turning of the season: the glorious colors, the falling leaves, the beautiful mushrooms. We notice the need to wear scarves, warmer clothes and drink some Pumpkin Spice Lattes (love it or leave it). Autumn [...]

Sophie2024-11-02T11:51:16+01:00Tags: autumn, Halloween, Renata, samhain, seasonal celebration, wheel of the year|

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|

Witchy books for your Halloween

This year we’re spotlighting mostly witchy books during the Halloween period, and we’ve asked a couple of colleagues to come up with their choices of titles where witches are the main characters. Emma's Choices Cackle by Rachel Harrison Get yourself a cup [...]

Lilia2024-10-21T12:15:10+02:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Alix E. Harrow, Arthur Miller, Best of Lists, Damla, Dark Fantasy, EmmaV, Ering Sterling, Fantasy, Halloween, Heather Fawcett, Language Arts and Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Plays, Rachel Harrison, Romantasy, Sharon Lynn Fischer, Stickers, Taisia Kitaiskaia, Witches, Witchy books|

Blind Book Dates

By Sophie. One of the more popular things we sell, across all three ABCs, are our Blind Book Dates, or BBDs, as we call them. (Technically they should of course be called "Blind Date with a Book", but why use that when you can use a TLA, right?) A BBD is a [...]

Sophie2024-10-26T17:30:17+02:00Tags: ABC Amsterdam, ABC Leidschendam, ABC The Hague, BBD, Blind Book Date, Crime Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Sophie, YA fiction|

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|

Series Spotlight: The Five Packs by Cate C. Wells

By Lília It’s always a bit weird to start a book with “rejected mate” in the title, but this series is quite entertaining and much deeper than its titles suggest. Cate C. Wells has created an interesting world and lore with this series, in which wolf changelings are a reality but [...]

Lilia2024-10-09T17:47:30+02:00Tags: Cate C. Wells, Fated Mates, Five Packs series, Lília, Romantasy, Series Spotlight|

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|

Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Congratulations to Han Kang, who is this year's Nobel Prize laureate for the Literature category! We all probably know her from her International Booker Prize winning The Vegetarian, and thankfully since then quite a few of her other works have been translated into English as well. The Nobel Prize jury lauded [...]

Sophie2024-10-10T17:20:41+02:00Tags: Bookbits, Fiction, Nobel Prize Winner, Prize winners, Translated Fiction|

Author Spotlight: India Holton

By Naomi One day I picked up a book from a new-to-me author, with a gorgeous cover and a wacky premise. I fell in love with reading all over again. I don’t know what India Holton puts in her books (actually, I do know, and I’ll talk about it below), but [...]

Naomi2024-09-13T16:34:34+02:00Tags: India Holton, Naomi, Romantasy|

ABC Interview: Bruna

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 talked to Bruna. She [...]

Lilia2024-10-04T12:40:21+02:00Tags: ABC interview, Aeaea, Alasdair Gray, Angela Carter, Art History, Bruna, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Gothic Horror, Historical Fiction, History, Horror, Memoirs, Patti Smith|

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