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Sophie

Bookseller, stock buyer, display maker & Girl Friday at ABC The Hague & ABC Leidschendam. Has been at ABC since almost the last millennium. Current sections under her care are YA, Politics & Current Affairs, Sports, Prizewinners, and Staff Choices. Loves any book that makes her think, learn, and look at life from a new angle, whatever genre. Cat person, feminist, easily bribed with Nutella, preferred state of being = barefoot in the garden.

Bookbits for 6 August 2025

by Sophie - Awards! The Eisner Awards for best comics and graphic novels were announced at the San Diego Comic Con last month. There are approximately 12 million categories, but one to highlight is Best Single Issue, won by Joe Sacco for The War on Gaza. Another recently-awarded prize with a [...]

2025-08-11T13:25:51+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

ABC Bestsellers – July 2025

by Sophie Welcome to the middle of the summer, up here in the Northern Hemisphere at least. Like last month, escapism reigns supreme, with lots of Romance, Romantasy, and Fantasy titles making a (re)appearance - local author Rachel Lynn Solomon's What Happens in Amsterdam is just flying off the shelf in [...]

2025-08-09T17:59:06+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Booker Prize Longlist 2025

The Booker Prize 2025 longlist © Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize Foundation by Sophie It's only 29 July, but autumn is surely around the corner because the Booker Prize just announced its longlist! The Booker Prize is one of the most influential prizes in the annual literary calendar, [...]

2025-08-04T13:48:46+02:00Tags: , , , |

How’s Your ABC Summer Bingo Going?

by Sophie A few weeks ago we posted about our ABC Summer Bingo cards, and, curious booksellers that we are, we want to know: have you had a bingo yet? Are you still to start on your bingo quest? Are you going for a simple bingo or a full-on card black-out? [...]

2025-07-14T16:07:48+02:00Tags: , , |

ABC Summer Bingo

By Sophie Summer's here! And nothing is so quintessentially summer as reading - in a hammock, on the beach, in the shade of a glorious tree... We decided to make reading even more fun and colorful by making not one, but two ABC Summer Bingo cards, one for kids and one [...]

2025-06-20T09:25:58+02:00Tags: , , |

Literary Prize Bonanza: International Booker, Pulitzers, and Nibbies

By Sophie It's May, and that means a trio of big literary prizes has been announced! First off, the International Booker Prize was announced this past Tuesday. Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq was the winner.  These 12 stories were translated into English from Kannada (a language spoken in South India) by [...]

2025-05-22T11:14:16+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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