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Reading Along with the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Shortlist

by Sophie If you've ever seen my Staff Choice list, or any of my recent Top 5s, you'll know I'm a huge Ursula K. Le Guin stan. There's just something about her fantasy and her social science fiction stories that connects very deeply and immediately to my being, and the older [...]

Sophie2026-08-19T12:32:36+02:00Tags: 9-12 years, Akil Kumarasamy, Christiane M. Andrews, Fantasy, Nicola Griffith, Novellas, Prize winners, R. B. Lemberg, Readalong, Rebecca Campbell, Science Fiction, Short Stories, shortlist, Sophie, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, Yuri Herrera, Yvette Lisa Ndlowu, Zain Khalid|

ABC Interview: Carla

We played the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked them 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 Carla, our [...]

Lilia2026-08-15T21:54:04+02:00Tags: ABC Staff, ABC Staff interviews, C.S. Lewis, Carla, Fantasy, Fiction, Gabriel García Márquez, General Fiction, interviews, J.R.R. Tolkien, Narnia, Paulo Coelho, Romantasy, Rubén Darío, Sarah J. Maas, Young Adult|

ABC Staff Picks: May 2024

by Lília All good things must come to an end. So with this latest episode, we say goodbye to our ABC Staff Picks on YouTube. Thanks to everyone who watched us over the years, thanks to all our expert booksellers who have given their recommendations so consistently, [...]

Lilia2026-08-15T17:53:15+02:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Alexis Hall, Business, David Van Reybrouck, Else, EmmaV, Fantasy, Fiction, General Fiction, History, Iris, Japanese Fiction, Jeroen, Lília, Luke, Matty, Nghi Vo, Pierce Brown, Poetry, R. B. Lemberg, Rohinton Mistry, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction, Simon Sinek, Sophie, Toon Hezemans, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Travel|

Some more Pride reads

by Lília We might be approaching the end of Pride month, but we're here to let everybody know that there's no limit to when we should read about gay love, asexuality, LGBTQIA+ struggles, romantic love and any other form of loving. Love is love, no matter which form it takes. If [...]

Lilia2026-08-14T14:25:35+02:00Tags: Arinze Ifeakandu, Best of Lists, Brandon Taylor, Fiction, General Fiction, Jilles, Kasey LeBlanc, LGBTQIA+, Luke Edward Hall, Philippe Besson, Séan Hewitt, Social Science, Young Adult|

ABC Bestsellers – May 2024

by Lília 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 [...]

Lilia2026-08-23T17:18:15+02:00Tags: ABC Bestsellers, ABC Bestsellers 2024, Alex Aster, Ana Huang, Bestsellers, Colo Mellors, Emily Henry, H.D. Carlton, Hanya Yanagihara, Hayao Miyazaki, Holly Black, Holly Jackson, Jenny Erpenbeck, Lauren Roberts, Lília, Miranda July, Paul Lynch, R.F. Kuang, Richard Oseman, Sarah J. Maas, Tatsuki Fujimoto, Tsugiko Kubo|

Happy Pride Month!

by Lauren & Lília It’s Pride Month, celebrated every June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, when the gay community protested against its treatment by police. These days, June is a month of celebration and awareness about the LGBTQ+ community worldwide, but it’s especially marked in the US. As [...]

Bookbits for June 2024

by Sophie R.I.P. Alice Munro, who died on May 13th. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. For Independent Bookstore Day in the US (sadly no longer celebrated here on account of King's Day/Memorial Day/Liberation Day all happening then too), the president of children's book publisher Nosy Crow decided [...]

Sophie2026-08-25T21:41:11+02:00Tags: author interviews, Awards, book lists, Bookbits, Bookbits 2024, Bookish News, Obituaries, Sophie|

The International Booker Prize 2024: and the winner is…

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann. Born in East Berlin in 1967, Erpenbeck, in addition to being an award-winning novelist, is also an opera director and playwright who trained as bookbinder (endearing her to us even more). Her novel, published by Granta books, is described by [...]

Lilia2026-08-23T22:46:59+02:00Tags: Awards, Booker Prize, Fiction, General Fiction, International Booker Prize, International Booker Prize 2024, Jenny Erpenbeck, Translated Fiction|

2024 Book-to-screen adaptations: General Fiction

by Naomi A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Amor Towles’ novel A Gentleman in Moscow has been made into a tv series that started airing in March. The book follows Count Rostov, who was sentenced to house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922. He [...]

Lilia2026-08-21T22:47:14+02:00Tags: adaptations, Amor Towles, Book to Screen, Fiction, General Fiction, Hernan Diaz, Historical Fiction, Janice YC Lee, Lianne Moriarty, Mary Shelley, Naomi|

Team players: David Allen and Kathryn Allen lending hands

The ever-generous David and Kathryn Allen seeing the new book for the first time in our warehouse. by Lynn I remember business book buyer Hans Huisman walking past the shelves and pointing to a book titled Getting Things Done by David Allen and asking: “Who IS this guy? We’ve [...]

Lynn Kaplanian2026-08-15T17:56:56+02:00Tags: Business, David Allen, Kathryn Allen, Lynn|

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