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ABC Interview: Lília

We played the Q&A game with the ABC staff, and asked all sorts of bookish questions. In the coming weeks we will be posting their (sometimes cheeky!) answers here on the blog, so you can learn a little more about us. Enjoy! This time around we talk to Lília, blogmistress, buyer [...]

Lilia2026-08-24T22:28:46+02:00Tags: ABC Staff, ABC Staff interviews, Fantasy, Fashion, interviews, Lília, magazines, Nalini Singh, Psychology, S.K. Dunstall, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Ursula K. Le Guin|

ABC Bestsellers – October 2024

by Lília Here at ABC our experts always strive to bring the best to our customers and let you know what we love. We also get an inkling at what books you love through our monthly(ish) Bestseller lists, compiled from the lists of our three stores. We love to share this [...]

Lilia2026-08-23T18:06:36+02:00Tags: ABC Bestsellers, ABC Bestsellers 2024, Alex Hirsch, Ana Huang, Bestsellers, Deborah Smith, Fumitake Koga, Grant Dawson, Han Kang, Ichiro Kishimi, Laurie Gilmore, Lília, Lynn Painter, Mieko Kawakami, Olga Tokarczuk, Rebecca Yarros, Rick Riordan, Stephen Fry, Toshikazu Kawaguchi|

Series Spotlight: The Five Packs by Cate C. Wells

by Lília It’s always a bit weird to start a book with “rejected mate” in the title, but this series is quite entertaining and much deeper than its titles suggest. Cate C. Wells has created an interesting world and lore with this series, in which wolf changelings are a reality but [...]

Lilia2026-08-15T21:27:39+02:00Tags: Cate C. Wells, Lília, Romantasy, Series Spotlight|

ABC Bestsellers – September 2024

by Lília Here at ABC our experts always strive to bring the best to our customers and let you know what we love. We also get an inkling at what books you love through our monthly(ish) Bestseller lists, compiled from the lists of our three stores. We love to share this [...]

Book review: The Gay Best Friend

As a people-pleasing gay man, thirty-year-old music lawyer Domenic Marino is an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends: handsome sports attorney Patrick Cooper and glamorous beauty editor Kate Wallace. But this summer—reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending both their bachelor and bachelorette parties at the Cooper family’s idyllic shoreline estate in Mystic, Connecticut—Dom is anxious about having to play both sides.

Lilia2026-08-27T14:58:41+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, LGBTQIA+, Lília, Nicolas Didomizio, Romantic Fiction|

The Booker Prize 2024: the shortlist

by Lília On September 16 The Booker Prize 2024 Shortlist was finally announced! As mentioned on their website: "The shortlist includes five women, authors from five countries, and stories which transport readers around the world and beyond Earth's atmosphere." The list includes a retelling of Huckleberry Finn, a title that also [...]

Lilia2026-08-23T22:45:48+02:00Tags: Anne Michaels, Awards, Booker Prize, Booker Prize 2024, Charlotte Wood, Lília, Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner, Samantha Harvey, Yael van der Wouden|

ABC Bestsellers – August 2024

by Lília Here at ABC our experts always strive to bring the best to our customers and let you know what we love. We also get an inkling at what books you love through our monthly(ish) Bestseller lists, compiled from the lists of our three stores. We love to share this [...]

Lilia2026-08-27T15:40:11+02:00Tags: ABC Bestsellers, ABC Bestsellers 2024, Ana Huang, Anne Frank, Bestsellers, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Colleen Hoover, Freida McFadden, Fumitake Koga, Hannah Grace, Ichiro Kishimi, Jacqueline Harpman, Lília, Michiko Aoyama, Mieko Kawakami, Ocean Vuong, Sally Rooney, Sarah J. Maas, Sherry Argov, Toshikazu Kawaguchi|

Book review: Abroad in Japan

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? "Abroad in Japan" charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it.

Lilia2026-08-15T15:17:11+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Chris Broad, Lília|

The inside scoop: Where have all the magazines gone?

by Lauren If you’ve been to our Amsterdam store recently, you may have noticed our magazine section has been reduced by half. Things have been less dramatic in The Hague, but the number of magazines on offer there has also been steadily decreasing. Many magazines still being printed are coming out [...]

Lauren Comiteau2026-08-19T14:35:41+02:00Tags: behind the scenes, Lauren, life as a bookseller, Lília, magazines|

Book review: The Seven Year Slip

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise novel from the bestselling author of "The Dead Romantics."

Lilia2026-08-15T13:27:52+02:00Tags: Ashley Poston, Book review, Book Reviews, Lília, Magical Realism, Romantic Fiction|

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