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Staff Choices: what we’ve read and loved – Part 5

by Jouke, Martijn, Chiara, Sophie, Iris, Simone & Lília Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson Jouke: Two sisters, captive gods, an ingenious magic system featuring breath and colors, and a talking sword. I love Warbreaker and I have no idea why I waited 11 years to read this; I would [...]

Lilia2026-08-03T20:23:27+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Iris, Jouke, Lília, Martijn, Mythology, Science Fiction, Simone, Sophie|

New genre watch: Romantasy

Written by Naomi Recently, the Romantasy genre— a subgenre of both romance and fantasy—has experienced a big surge in popularity. This is in large part thanks to online reader communities such as BookTok, Bookstagram and BookTube, where readers can share recommendations and find like-minded people. A great example of the power [...]

Lilia2023-11-23T13:31:00+01:00Tags: Fantasy, Naomi, New Genre, Romantasy, Romantic Fiction|

Cozy crime season is here!

Written by Naomi The days are getting shorter and darker, which means it’s the perfect time to light some candles, get comfortable under a blanket and pick up a cozy crime novel! The world can be bleak enough, so sometimes you want to read a book, knowing that in the end [...]

Lilia2023-10-20T17:18:49+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Cozy Crime, Crime Fiction, Naomi|

ABC Staff Picks: Season 4 kick off!

by Lília Luke and Iris discuss books and interview author Natali Simmonds. In the new season of our ABC Staff Picks, Luke and Iris are back discussing the books they and their colleagues are loving right now. They also interview author Natali Simmonds about her new book, [...]

Lilia2026-08-08T10:49:45+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Biography, Bob, Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, EmmaV, Fantasy, Floris, Interviews, Iris, IrisM, MariaS, Naomi, Natali Simmonds, Romantic Fiction, Staff Picks, Young Adult|

Book-to-screen adaptations: Manga edition

Written by Naomi Manga is by nature a very visual medium, which means it’s excellent source material for movies and tv series. Adaptations are either animated (anime) or live-action. There have been many adaptations of manga (Japanese), manhwa (Korean) and manhua (Chinese) series. Given that there are many manga series in [...]

Lilia2023-10-11T22:13:16+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Book to Movie, Book to Screen, Book to Series, Manga, Naomi|

And the 2023 Nobel Prize goes to…Jon Fosse

Written by Lauren Norwegian author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called his "innovative plays and prose which gives voice to the unsayable." The 64-year-old's major works, written in the Nynorsk variation of Norwegian, include the Septology [...]

Lilia2025-07-24T11:51:33+02:00Tags: Jon Fosse, Lauren, Nobel Prize Winner, Norwegian author|

6 books under 200 pages to wrap up your reading challenge

Written by Natalia There are many reading challenges out there, with the most well-known ones on Goodreads or The StoryGraph. You can set your own goal to read a certain number of books or pages by the end of the year or challenge yourself to read more classics, more female authors [...]

Lilia2023-09-28T16:37:11+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Fantasy, Fiction, Natalia, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction|

Dutch youngsters are reading more, thrillers top the genre list

Dutch youngsters are more likely to pick up a book and read than they were five years ago, according to new research by book industry body KVB Boekwerk (article in Dutch). The organisation says almost half of 12 to 25-year-olds will now read a book at least once a week, compared [...]

Lilia2023-10-01T11:07:57+02:00Tags: Lauren|

Best business books of the year

Written by Lauren The Financial Times and Schroeders Group (investment managers) just announced the shortlist for their 2023 Business Book of the Year. The six finalists, awarded to the author(s) of the book providing the “most compelling and enjoyable” insight into the most pressing business issues of the day, include works [...]

Lilia2023-09-28T15:13:04+02:00Tags: Best of Lists, Business, Financial Times, Lauren|

Nina Siegal on Banned Books

Written by Lauren Author and New York Times culture writer Nina Siegal has written four books, three novels including The Anatomy Lesson, and most recently, the nonfiction The Diary Keepers, the story of World War II as told through the words of ordinary Dutch residents who lived through it. A native [...]

Lilia2025-07-24T11:51:44+02:00Tags: ABC, Banned Books, Interviews, Nina Siegal|

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