Abacus: version 1

Saved 2026-09-17 10:23 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **9780349117454 — All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye**, the Abacus paperback of Christopher Brookmyre's ninth novel, from the wanted queue (old Barcodepedia page captured 16 July 2006. This is the current version.

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# Abacus <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Abacus
disambiguation: literary paperback imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, London
website: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/abacus/page/lbbg-imprint-abacus/
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                          | market | from | until | ended | status  | source  | note                                                                                           |
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| imprint_of | company/little-brown-book-group | global |      |       |       | sourced | ^abacus | The imprint page sits on Little, Brown Book Group's own site and is listed under its imprints. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name         | type   | locale | from | until |
| ------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Abacus Books | search | en     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref      | url                                                                                                                  | title                                                                      | accessed   | publisher                | kind         | published  | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| hachette | https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/christopher-brookmyre/all-fun-and-games-until-somebody-loses-an-eye/9780349117454/ | All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye: Abacus paperback title page | 2026-09-17 | Hachette UK              | manufacturer | 2006-04-20 |           |         |         |             |          |
| abacus   | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/abacus/page/lbbg-imprint-abacus/                                               | LBBG Imprint - Abacus                                                      | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group | manufacturer |            |           |         |         |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Abacus is the literary paperback imprint of Little, Brown Book Group in London, whose list celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2023 and which publishes David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, David Foster Wallace, Celeste Ng, Alexander McCall Smith and Chris Brookmyre among others.[^abacus] It is the imprint printed on the spine of the 2006 paperback of Brookmyre's All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye, whose title page Hachette UK publishes under the Abacus logo.[^hachette]
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