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Damla

Architect turned bookseller, Damla has worked at the ABC in the Hague and Leidschendam stores since June 2024. She is the buyer for the New York Times Bestsellers, Prizewinners, Staff Recommendations, the Foreign Languages, and Business sections.

Her love of reading started at a very young age with sneaky peeks at her sister’s diary, and since then has evolved into more of an obsession rather than a hobby. She has been known to happily read anything and everything she can get her hands on regardless of the genre.

When forced to disconnect from whichever book-world she is currently engrossed in, she enjoys traveling, learning languages, petting dogs, drinking too much coffee, gaming, introducing herself in the third person and trying to pronounce the Dutch G sound (still working on this last one).

She also has a book-related Instagram account where she posts all things bookish. (https://www.instagram.com/travelling_bookworm/)

Book Review: Girl on Girl

Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert When did feminism lose its way? Sophie Gilbert provides one answer, identifying an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the energy of third-wave and “riot girl” feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Gilbert mines the darker [...]

ABC Bestsellers – February 2026

by Damla February might be a short month, but it was packed with some strong bestsellers. At the top of the list in all our stores once again, we have both installations of Rachel Reid’s hockey romance about Hollander and Rozanov, Heated Rivalry and The Long Game. This is certainly no [...]

Book Review: High-Rise

High-Rise - J.G. Ballard When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on "enemy" floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled [...]

2026-01-19T11:17:48+01:00Tags: , , , , |

Bookbits for January 2026

by Damla and Sophie Happy new year! The festive season is slowly winding down and the somewhat harsher  realities of life (by which we mean weeks worth of unanswered emails at work, restarting coursework, or finally packing away those decorations) are rising back to the surface. But not to worry. [...]

2026-02-11T17:37:25+01:00Tags: , , , , , , , |
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