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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
