Tiemen Archives

Tiemen has been a bookseller at the Amsterdam store for over a decade.
He is the buyer for the Science-Fiction & Fantasy section and as such has turned his hobby into his job. When not helping customers and ordering books, Tiemen helps organize events like the ABC pop-up store at the Heroes Dutch Comic Con and author events both in the store and online via Zoom.

In his spare time he likes to garden, play indie and strategy games on the PC, boardgames with his friends and of course reading books. His favorite part of being a bookseller is when a patron comes up to him and asks: “Can you recommend me some books?”.

You can find Tiemen on twitter @tiemenzwaan

ABC Bestsellers – September 2025

by Damla September was a month for big and exciting names when it comes to publishing. Dan Brown's latest book in the thrilling Robert Langdon series, The Secret of Secrets, has hit the shelves after a long hiatus. Ian McEwan has also released a new book this month, called What [...]

Damla2025-10-10T15:43:10+02:00Tags: ABC Bestsellers, ABC Bestsellers 2025, Art, Bruna, Crime Fiction, Damla, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, Júlia, Matty, memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Sophie, Tiemen|

What we’re reading, watching, and listening to

by Sophie Every so often we want to share what we're currently reading, watching, and/or listening to. We hope you'll enjoy our choices! Tiemen: Reading: I'm currently reading part 4 of The Dungeon Crawler Carl series to my wife. Every evening I read about half an hour of DCC before [...]

Sophie2025-08-11T13:24:57+02:00Tags: Bella, Damla, Else, Iris, Jilles, Jurgen, Klaartje, Lynn, Renata, Sigrid, Sophie, Steven, Tiemen, what we're listening to, what we're reading, what we're watching|

Coffee bar, dead cat, happy end: our Bella interviewed for NRC

On Saturday 5 July, Dutch newspaper NRC published an article on Cozy and Healing Fiction (Koffiebar, dode kat, happy end)(please note, article in Dutch and may be behind a paywall), in which they interviewed our Bella (with a cameo by Tiemen)! We're posting an English translation of the part of the article [...]

Sophie2025-07-08T19:33:49+02:00Tags: Bella, Cozy Fantasy, cozy fiction, cozy games, Healing Fiction, newspaper article, nrc, Tiemen|

ABC In the Wild: FACTS 2025 spring

By Else Two weeks after Made in Asia we traveled to another convention to set up our pop-up bookstore, this time in the lovely Ghent at FACTS, Belgium’s largest Comic Con. This means a group of four very nerdy booksellers (Tiemen, Sywert, Jonna and me) made a road trip from Amsterdam [...]

Sophie2025-05-11T08:43:31+02:00Tags: ABC in the Wild, convention, Else, facts, Jonna, klokke roeland, pop-up bookstore, Sywert, Tiemen|

Triple take: Blood Over Bright Haven

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has [...]

Lilia2025-04-10T12:55:29+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Else, Fantasy, Iris, IrisW, M.L. Wang, Staff Choice, Tiemen|

ABC’s 100 Top Tips, part 5

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 [...]

Sophie2025-04-07T20:49:32+02:00Tags: ABC's 100 Top Tips, Art, Autobiography, Bruna, Carla, Comics, Damla, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Isabelle, Jilles, Jouke, Lília, living, Manga, Martijn, Matty, Music, Nature, Nicki, Philosophy, Psychology, Science Fiction, Simone, Sophie, Staff Choices, Tiemen, YA fiction, Young Adult|

ABC’s 100 Top Tips, part 4

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 [...]

Sophie2025-04-08T12:57:14+02:00Tags: ABC's 100 Top Tips, Autobiography, Comics, Damla, economics, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Humor, Iris, Jitse, Juno, Jurgen, Matty, Poetry, Renata, Science, Shirley, Simone, Sophie, Staff Choices, Tiemen|

ABC’s 100 Top Tips, part 3

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 [...]

Sophie2025-04-07T14:29:43+02:00Tags: ABC's 100 Top Tips, Bob, Bruna, Comics, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Iris, Jilles, Jonna, Juno, Matty, Nature, Romance, Science Fiction, Shirley, Sophie, Staff Choices, Tiemen|

ABC’s 100 Top Tips, part 2

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 25 [...]

Sophie2025-04-07T14:40:59+02:00Tags: ABC's 100 Top Tips, Bruna, Cookbooks, Crime Fiction, Current Affairs, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Jonna, Lília, Lynn, Manga, Martijn, Matty, memoir, Mythology, Psychology, Romance, Science Fiction, Shirley, Sophie, Staff Choices, Tiemen|

ABC’s 100 Top Tips, part 1

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 [...]

Sophie2025-04-07T21:04:51+02:00Tags: ABC's 100 Top Tips, Bella, Comics, Else, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, History, Horror, Iris, IrisW, Jilles, Jonna, Juno, Lília, Martijn, Matty, Science Fiction, Simone, Social Science, Sophie, Staff Choices, Sywert, Tiemen, YA fiction, Young Adult|

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