Bookseller, stock buyer, display maker & Girl Friday at ABC The Hague & ABC Leidschendam. Cat person, easily bribed with Nutella, preferred state of being = barefoot in the garden.
We are back with our 5(ish) favorite reads (and games) of 2024! We try very hard to keep it to five, but it’s simply not always possible. So, per staff member there may be more or less than five titles, but there can also be an A and a B list, [...]
By Sophie. Gift season is fast approaching, and you, as a registered bookworm, probably have quite a to-be-read (TBR) list. But how to communicate your coveted books to your loved ones in a subtle and gentle way? By sending your ABC Wishlists directly to them of course! (Subtlety is overrated.) Now, [...]
By Sophie. Congratulations to Samantha Harvey, who won this year's Booker Prize for Orbital! Chair of the this year's judging panel, Edmund de Waal, had this to say about the book: "[...] Sometimes you encounter a book and cannot work out how this miraculous event has happened. As judges we were determined [...]
By Sophie. A special day today: it's my daughter's birthday! (If you thought I was going to talk about the U.S. Elections, see below.) - First up: ABC's co-director Martijn was a guest on the Bookshop Podcast! Listen here to hear what he has to say about working in the best [...]
We decided to play 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 Sophie, [...]
By Sophie. One of the more popular things we sell, across all three ABCs, are our Blind Book Dates, or BBDs, as we call them. (Technically they should of course be called "Blind Date with a Book", but why use that when you can use a TLA, right?) A BBD is a [...]
By Sophie. AAAaaand the Bookbits are back, after my vacation last month. ^^ - Let's start off with a great interview by Booker Prize shortlisted Rachel Kushner which immediately made me want to read Creation Lake. - If you like to discover new writing talent, check out these 10 Promising New [...]
By Sophie. One of the perks of being a bookseller is that sometimes you get invited to things like the Amsterdam Book Event, hosted by Van Ditmar Books. This year Bruna and Tiemen from the Amsterdam team and Naomi, Júlia, and myself from the The Hague/Leidschendam team were the lucky ones. [...]
Today we present one of the titles we mentioned last week: Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez. Colleagues Sophie and Damla have read it and can't recommend it enough. Damla How did we manage to build a world where we ignore half the [...]
Writtten by Sophie. I am currently in Olympics heaven! They are always the highlight of every 4th summer for me. Hope you are enjoying all the amazing feats of sportmanship as well! And a note: no Bookbits next month, as I'll be on vacation. Longlists! The Booker Dozen has been announced, [...]
