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The true crime obsession

By Naomi As the true crime genre explodes on screens, audio devices and bookshelves, there are many theories why it’s one of today’s fasting-growing genres. For starters, crime plays a big role in our society, and it’s natural to want to know the who-why-what-how’s of it. There’s also an element of [...]

Lilia2024-11-04T14:24:39+01:00Tags: Best of Lists, Jim McCloskey, John Grisham, Joseph Hone, Naomi, Robert Rand, Sarah Weinman, Scott C. Johnson, True Crime|

ABC Bestsellers – October 2024

Here at ABC our experts always strive to bring the best to our customers and let you know what we love. We also get an inkling at what books you love through our monthly(ish) Bestseller lists, compiled from the lists of our three stores. We love to share this with you, [...]

Bookbits for 5 November 2024

By Sophie. A special day today: it's my daughter's birthday! (If you thought I was going to talk about the U.S. Elections, see below.) - First up: ABC's co-director Martijn was a guest on the Bookshop Podcast! Listen here to hear what he has to say about working in the best [...]

Sophie2026-02-11T17:37:36+01:00Tags: artificial intelligence, Awards, Bookbits, Essays, fandom, Fiction, Interviews, lists, Martijn, Podcasts, Politics, Science Fiction, Sophie, speculative fiction, US elections|

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|

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 [...]

Lilia2026-02-11T17:55:24+01:00Tags: Cate C. Wells, Fated Mates, Five Packs series, Lília, Romantasy, Series Spotlight|

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