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By Else Every year, the ABC does a couple events out “in the wild”; basically setting up a pop-up bookstore on location, be it a convention, The Next Web, or at a school fair. In the middle of March, we set up a pop-up bookstore at Made in Asia 2025 in [...]
by Damla As the weather holds the promise of getting milder (she said ever-so-optimistically), the sunshine starts to break through the clouds after a long-awaited wintery interval, and the flowers have tentatively started to bloom, we are more than ready to ring the spring in at the ABC. The spring equinox [...]
By Lauren Last month, ABC hosted the first of our planned Writer’s Nights, where writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, booksellers, and readers come together to share and celebrate stories, whether their own or somebody else’s they’re helping put out into the world. Our talent wall was full with snippets of novels, short [...]
A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is the swashbuckling third volume in Kate Mosse's enthralling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water — its hull splintered and its sails tattered and burnt. For months the Ghost Ship [...]
By Mike Scoop! D&D initiative Dobbelgangers has made history with the first ever D&D night at the ABC. Six tables spread out over the three floors of our Amsterdam store hosted over thirty first-time and experienced adventurers. Blasts were had in a diverse range of in-game settings, ranging from North African [...]
by Damla In honor of International Women’s History Month in March, here is a list of some of our most anticipated books of 2025 by women authors. From literary fiction to fantasy, horror to sci-fi, romance to nonfiction titles, there is something for everyone. So take a look at our roundup [...]
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck -- enough to get her off-planet and on the [...]
By Lília “International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated annually on March 8, honors the achievements of women across all aspects of life—social, economic, cultural, and political—while also advocating for gender equality.” International Women’s Day (IWD), declared as a holiday by Russian leader Vladimir Lenin in 1922, has been celebrated in one form [...]
By Sophie March is traditionally a month that features particularly many new fiction releases. We've rounded up 12 books being published in March - and 1 in April - that we are very excited about. Some of them are eagerly anticipated by many folks, others just by us, really, but we [...]
As a short month February came and went very quickly, and now it’s already time for our monthly list of ABC Bestsellers. These titles are taken from the sold-books data across all 3 ABCs, and gives us an insight into the books you love (to buy, at least ;-)). We have [...]
