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Friday, March 23rd, saw us kicking off the first instalment of Book Chats @ ABC Amsterdam, our new book club here at the ABC in Amsterdam. With a book to capture our imaginations, a diverse group of some of Amsterdam’s dedicated bookworms, and enough tea and coffee to keep us …
We don’t just love to sell books (and magazines, and games) but we also love to read them! So, without further ado, here are our favorite reads from the past year, in Reverse Inbox Order. Enjoy! Erik – Sywert – Marten – Klaartje – Tiemen – Simone – Renate – …
Every year the Dutch CPNB organises the Dutch Children’s Book Week (Kinderboekenweek). This year it takes place from 4 until 15 October and the theme is ‘scary books’. During this week ABC will offer an English-language selection of scary children’s books, chosen by Tatia Gruenbaum from The Little English Library. …
Simone: I was reading Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout, but it turns out that this is a sequel-of-sorts to My Name is Lucy Barton, so that will have to go first instead. Well, after I finish Thursday’s Children by Nicci French. Ceriel: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, Richard Yates’s …
Well, it’s not October yet, so we’ll count this post as ‘right on time’: here is this year’s Man Booker Shortlist! 4 …