Posts Tagged ‘Sophie’

Store Bits: Event pics, audio books, Typex and more

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Jitse sent in this great video (via VPRO) of graphic novelist Typex making his new comic Rembrandt, in honor of the reopening of the Rijksmuseum this month.  We hope it will be as popular as Barbara Stok’s Vincent, but with such a glowing review from the Guardian, how can it not be?

Jitse would also like to direct you to the newly-published More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops. Yes, there’s a first Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, too.  If you’ve ever worked in retail, these questions and remarks might sound familiar!

Not that ABC customers ever ask us any of these things, of course…  :-)

The Dutch national Audio Books Week is nearing its end, so Sophie wants to remind everyone reading this that ABC The Hague has an Audio Books section!  Current highlights include The Diary of Anne Frank, The Dinner, Lean In, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Game of Thrones, Why Nations Fail and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.

She also wants to remind you that we have intra-store shipping twice a week, so we can send any of these titles to ABC Amsterdam for you.

Last Friday ABC The Hague hosted a book presentation of the brand-new City Trail guide The Hague and the Best of the Netherlands.  Almost 40 people attended it, including The Hague’s mayor Jozias van Aartsen.  He arrived a little tardy (by bike!), but stayed an hour past his intended ten minutes, and even had a good look at our Espresso Book Machine afterwards!

More pictures of past events can be found on our Flickr page.

And finally, Tiemen was part of the ABC crew that manned our stand at this year’s Elfia/Elf Fantasy Fair in Haarzuilens this past weekend.  He updated our Twitter feed with pictures that need sharing here, too!  What fantastic costumes.

This Just In: Military History

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

Five Recently-Arrived Titles from the Military History Section:

Please be sure to contact our stores for an exact stock check!

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This Just In: Romance

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Five Recently-Arrived Titles from the Romance Section:

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What We’re Reading

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013


Simone: Sight Reading – Daphne Kalotay
Jouke: The Age of Voodoo – James Lovegrove
JeroenW: The Desert Spear – Peter V. Brett
Renate: Faces in the Crowd – Valeria Luiselli
Jesse: The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
Ester: The Bad Book Affair – Ian Sansom
Aviva: In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist – Pete Jordan
Pleun: How to Eat Out – Giles Coren
Martijn: Hounded – Kevin Hearne
Sophie: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (pulp cover)
Nicki: American Gods – Neil Gaiman (“author’s preferred text “edition)
Tiemen: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
PTRL: American Elsewhere – Robert Jackson Bennett
Tom: A Young ScoundrelEduard Limonov (English translation by John Dolan, but no longer in print)
Lynn: Dear Life – Alice Munro
Lilia: The Colossus Rises (The Seven Wonders Book 1) – Peter Lerangis

This Just In: Romance

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Five Recently-Arrived Titles from the Romance Section:

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