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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. 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 sold thousands [...]

Lilia2024-05-22T10:36:02+02:00Tags: Business, David Allen, Kathryn Allen, Lynn|

ABC Staff Picks: The birthday edition

By Lília Continuing with the celebration of our 52 years of existence, ABC’s Iris and Luke asked colleagues their book choices for the occasion. Most of them revolved around the lives of normal people in somewhat exceptional settings (reminiscent of ABC!), with overcoming adversity a prominent theme. No one chose it, [...]

Lilia2024-05-16T15:03:16+02:00Tags: Amor Towles, Best of Lists, Bob, Crime Fiction, David Nichols, EmmaV, Fantasy, Fiction, General Fiction, Graphic Novel, Hein de Haas, Iris, Japanese Fiction, Jeroen, Juno, K. O'Neill, Lília, Luke, Maria, Martijn, Michael R. Miller, Naomi, Political Science, Romantic Fiction, Rosie Talbot, Sarah Hogle, Seicho Matsumoto, Simone, Travis Baldree, Young Adult|

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day! We have to say, our call out to staff for mother-reading photos did not yield the prolific results our dad-reading photo shout out did. No, we don’t think moms are sleeping on the job. We just think they’re the ones taking the photos! So happy Mother’s Day from [...]

Lilia2024-05-08T12:37:00+02:00Tags: Mother's Day|

Bookbuzz Launch & Q&A

We are celebrating the launch of BookBuzz today! Friday, May 10th 17:00-18:30 ABC Amsterdam, Spui 12 1012XA Come join us and Stefaan, one of the brains behind BookBuzz, to get to know the app, ask questions, and talk books. During our birthday weekend, you might have [...]

Lilia2024-05-08T13:19:48+02:00Tags: BookBuzz, BookBuzz launch|

From screen to books: Star Trek

By Lília We talk a lot in this blog about turning books into films or TV-streaming series, but we don't talk enough about those stellar series or films that launch books that resist time and space. My love for Star Trek began with the original 1960s TV series, which I watched while [...]

Lilia2024-04-28T18:45:13+02:00Tags: Lília, Science Fiction, Screen to Book, Second-hand supplier, ST Original Series, Star Trek, TV series|

The Pulitzer Prizes 2024

By Lauren The 2024 winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were announced earlier this week at New York’s Columbia University. Read on to see what they are and what the jurists had to say about them. Fiction Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips “A beautifully rendered [...]

Lilia2024-05-08T11:17:53+02:00Tags: Autobiography, Best of Lists, Biography, Brandon Som, Cristina Rivera Garza, Drama, Eboni Booth, Fiction, General Fiction, General Non-Fiction, History, Ilyon Woo, Jacqueline Jones, Janyne Anne Phillips, Jonathan Eig, Lauren, Memoirs, Nathan Thrall, Poetry, Prize winners|

Bookbits for 7 May, 2024

R.I.P. Paul Auster, who died on 30 April of complications from lung cancer. NPR is one of the many sites with an obituary, and The Guardian gathered tributes by fellow authors. Awards! The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded last night, and the honorees are: Nightwatch (Fiction), Primary Trust (Drama), No Right to [...]

Sophie2024-05-07T08:38:31+02:00Tags: ABC Events, Awards, Bookbits, Bookish News, Obituaries, Recommendations, Sophie|

Buddy reading “Funny Story”

By Naomi and Júlia Emily Henry is one of the biggest names in contemporary romantic fiction right now. Her books are consistent bestsellers, and three of them are being adapted into film. Her latest novel, Funny Story, released April 24. Júlia (the romance buyer in The Hague) and I (a romance [...]

Lilia2024-04-28T18:14:05+02:00Tags: Book Reviews, Buddy reading, Emily Henry, Júlia, Naomi|

A Day in the Life of a Bookseller

By Naomi When I tell people I work at a bookstore, their first reaction is usually: “It must be so nice to get to read all day.” That would be nice indeed, but that’s not what I actually do. Even though I don’t get to lounge around reading all day, I [...]

Lilia2024-04-28T17:24:32+02:00Tags: A Day in the Life of a Bookseller, ABC, ABC History, Naomi|

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan: darkly fascinating – but a loose link with the city

With the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 set to be announced in May, veteran Dutchnews book reviewer and ABC blog contributor Molly Quell dives into past Booker winner, Amsterdam. Click here to read how author McEwan wrote his award-winning novel, in his own words. [...]

Lilia2024-11-24T20:18:08+01:00Tags: Book Reviews, Booker Prize, Fiction, General Fiction, Ian McEwan, Molly Quell|

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