by Lília April was a month with quite a few holidays; an excellent moment to sit, enjoy the sun and read. And you, our customers, keep showing us what you enjoy reading. In these tumultuous times, The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank's Diary) reappears as a reminder of our [...]
We played the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. As a new colleague, Mike didn’t have the chance to take part in our Q&A game last year. He was very interested in doing it anyway, so we asked him the same bookish questions and [...]
by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 5: Robinson – Zusak To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 4: McCarthy – Reid To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 3: Jimenez – Martine To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 2: Eggers – Jemisin To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
by Sophie ABC's 100 Top Tips, part 1: Abercrombie – Dunstall To celebrate our birthday this year (officially on 21 April, but we're celebrating it on the weekend of 12 and 13 April) we decided to ask all of the ABC staff what their most memorable books were of the past [...]
by Sophie Last year I wrote about reading along with the 2023 Ursula K. le Guin Prize shortlist. Reading along has become something of an annual literary pilgrimage for me since the prize's inception in 2022, so I'm writing about it again (and again as long as the ABC Blog will [...]
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 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 [...]
