Behind the Bookshelves

Discover the background to Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian book-burning novel from 1953 and why it's still relevant tod... Read more

We are joined by Erik Kwakkel, a professor in book history at the University of British Columbia. Erik explains the comm... Read more

Michael Ciancone works as a NASA engineer. In his spare time, he collects early books about rockets and spaceflight. Hi... Read more

We are joined by author & bibliophile Stuart Kells, who has written a book called Shakespeare’s Library. He investig... Read more

Our is guest is Matthew Budman, the author of Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age. His book is a co... Read more

We speak to book collector John Blaney about famous authors who wrote for adults but yet also wrote children’s books. Ex... Read more

We interview Rebecca Baumann about her collection of books covering crime, science fiction, horror and pulp paperbacks.... Read more

In 2015, AbeBooks sold an original, Russian-language copy of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak for $11,000. The booksell... Read more

Sherlockian is the American term for someone who is devoted to Sherlock Holmes. We interview Denny Dobry from the Beacon... Read more

Bestselling author David Baldacci speaks to us about the Amelia Island Book Festival, which occurs in February. David, h... Read more

Amy Stewart is an old friend of AbeBooks. We've been following her writing career for many years and saw her move from n... Read more

Should be simple? But there’s a whole world of jargon to understand. From foxing to marginalia, we attempt to explain th... Read more

We are joined by bookseller Brian Cassidy who, in 2019, launched a bookselling firm called Type Punch Matrix, along with... Read more

Medellee Antonioli is part of the new generation of booksellers. The 34-year-old is now the proud owner of a used bookst... Read more

The Voynich Manuscript has been confusing clever people since the 15th century. It's an illustrated document written in ... Read more

We’re talking Pulp with Mike Chomko, programming and marketing director of PulpFest. Discover the origins of the early P... Read more

Be careful what you use as a bookmark. Thousands of dollars, a letter written by CS Lewis, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseba... Read more

The Doors, Thompson Twins, Supertramp, Tears for Fears.... there are numerous bands that took their names from books. W... Read more

Many of you will be familiar with the dark Netflix crime drama Ozark. But did you know Ozark has sparked interest in a 1... Read more

An ex-library book is a book that once belonged to a public library or institution and has been 'discarded' after being ... Read more