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Make Bosses Pay : Why We Need Unions
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Burnt : Fighting for Climate Justice
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Against White Feminism
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2022 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner
£12.99by Verso Books Society & social sciences Paperback
2022 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner
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The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice
£20.00by Shon Faye ‘Monumental and utterly convincing – crystal clear in its understanding of how the world should be’ Judith Butler ‘This book feels like a moment. It’s heartfelt but analytical, in-depth and utterly humane. A landmark piece of work’ Sinead Gleeson ‘If you’re sick of seeing people’s humanity reduced to cannon fodder for […]
New Fiction
Reprieve
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Palmares
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Unbury Our Dead with Song
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You People
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Three Rooms
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The Service
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The Mercies
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Filthy Animals
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Variations [signed]
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Assembly
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Recent and Upcoming Book Launches and Events

Ill Feelings
£12.99by Hattrick, Alice / Health / Essay Published on 25 August 2021 by Fitzcarraldo Paperback / 360 pages Alice Hattrick will be discussing Ill Feelings at our online event on Wed 8 Sept at 7pm (UK time). To get tickets, click here. In 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was […]
Ill Feelings
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Putin’s Russia : The Rise of a Dictator
£16.99by Cunningham, Darryl / Graphic Novels Published by Myriad Editions 16 Sept 2021 Paperback / 144 pages Darryl will be joining us online on Wed 22 Sept at 7pm (UK time) to discuss Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator. You can get a copy of the book and access to the online event here. […]
Putin’s Russia : The Rise of a Dictator
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How to Stop Fascism : History, Ideology, Resistance
£20.00by Mason, Paul / Antifascism Published 26 August by Allen Lane UK Hardback / 320 pages Paul Mason will be in conversation with Ewa Majewska on Thursday 9 Sept at 7pm UK time. If you would like to buy a copy of the book and gain access to the online event, click here. ‘For its […]

Bi the Way : The Bisexual Guide to Life
£12.99by Shearing, Lois Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest Paperback
Bi the Way : The Bisexual Guide to Life
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We Played With Fire by Catherine Barter [signed]
£7.99SIGNED COPIES: for personalised dedications please leave instructions in the ‘Order notes’ box when you check out. Andersen Press, February 2021 (paperback, 336 pages) Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote, freezing farmhouse. Bored and angry, […]
Sanatorium
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Bestsellers
Lost in Work : Escaping Capitalism
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The Revenge of the Real : Politics for a Post-Pandemic World
£10.99by Bratton, Benjamin / Political Thought Published 29 June by Verso Hardback / 176 pages COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast, many Asian countries were able to make […]

Abolishing the Police
£8.00Dog Section Press, 2021 / paperback, 247 pages “This is the first time we are seeing… a conversation about defunding, and some people having a conversation about abolishing the police and prison state. This must be what it felt like when people were talking about abolishing slavery.” – Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter. Abolishing the Police (An […]
Abolishing the Police
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A Decolonial Feminism by Francoise Verges
£12.99Pluto Press, 2021 (paperback, 128 pages) ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***For too long feminism has been co-opted by the forces they seek to dismantle. In this powerful manifesto, Francoise Verges argues that feminists should no longer be accomplices of capitalism, racism, colonialism and imperialism: it is time to fight the system that created […]
A Decolonial Feminism by Francoise Verges
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What White People Can Do Next : From Allyship to Coalition
£7.99Dabiri, Emma / Black Politics Published 1 April by Penguin Books UK Paperback / 176 pages What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by academic and broadcaster, Emma Dabiri, is a manifesto for meaningful and lasting change born from the need to talk about racial injustice in a new way. An incisive, […]

Border Nation : A Story of Migration
£9.99by Cowan, Leah | Migration Published March 2021 by Pluto Press in the United Kingdom, as part of their Outspoken series Paperback | 160 pages Borders are more than geographical lines – they impact all our lives, whether it’s the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU […]
Border Nation : A Story of Migration
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Work Won’t Love You Back : How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone
£20.00by Jaffe, Sarah | Non-fiction Published 28/01/2021 by Hurst in the United Kingdom Hardback | 296 pages Whether it’s working for free in exchange for ‘experience’, enduring poor treatment in the name of being ‘part of the family’, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make […]

Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter
£10.00The Class Work Project (3rd edition 2021, paperback) To the political left Hunter’s people are the ignorant and the ill informed, to the victorious right they are the unwashed and discarded waste product of the labouring class. Chav Solidarity is part autobiography, part meditation on trauma, class and identity, part one finger salute into the […]
Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter
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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
£9.99Penguin Books Be honest: if your job didn’t exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren’t necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it. In the early twentieth century, people […]
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
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Featured Mags & Zines

Bitch Magazine issue 92/ Fall Winter 2021 – The Wild Issue
£12.00The Wild Issue Being “wild” has always carried a negative connotation, especially for marginalized groups, but how much could we gain from shaking off social constraints and embracing freedom? In this Wild issue, we explore people, groups, and social ideas that are committed to liberation at all costs whether it’s the freedom fighters in Palestine, […]

Asylum Magazine Vol 28.3 -The Radical Mental Health Magazine
£4.00Asylum is a quarterly produced radical mental health magazine. This issue opens with a moving extract from Donna Holder’s forthcoming personal memoir reflecting on a year spent as an in-patient (one of our sample articles). We continue with Alastair Kemp’s piece on the politics of language in our current times. Other sample articles in this […]

Salvage Magazine #10: The Disorder of the Future
£15.00Salvage is a bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters. Salvage is written by and for the desolated Left, by and for those sick of capitalism and its planetary death-drive, implacably opposed to the fascist reflux and all ‘national’ solutions to our crisis, committed to radical change, guarded against the encroachments of ‘woke’ capitalism and its sadistic […]

gal-dem #5 – Roaring Twenties
£10.00what is gal-dem? gal-dem is a new media publication, committed to telling the stories of people of colour from marginalised genders. With our online and print magazine, we’re addressing inequality and misrepresentation in the industry through platforming the creative and editorial work of our community across essays, opinion, news, arts, music, politics and lifestyle content. […]
gal-dem #5 – Roaring Twenties
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Louche issue 2
£12.00The second instalment of Louche, the drag magazine, is here! The theme of this issue focuses on the material culture of drag; the objects, the things, the ephemera, that serve to create drag magic. Issue #2 features: Izzy Aman; Barbs; Cassandra; Cyro; Georgeous Michael; Sin Wai Kin; Kallum Király; Sigi Moonlight; Just May; Hardik Mistry; […]
Louche issue 2
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ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW #83
£4.00The new summer issue (#83) is titled “Organizing Amazon” and also features articles on the Capitol riot, dock workers’ actions against war cargo, swedish syndicalists debating strategy, an article about Kropotkin’s legacy, and more!
ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW #83
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10 ZINE: A Sick Love Publication
£10.00Sick Love was created as a means to inspire conversations that our Editor felt were crucial but commonly brushed over in more traditional art based media. There are so many issues in the creative industries and so many interesting opinions coming from the youth that creating a platform where people were encouraged to express them […]
10 ZINE: A Sick Love Publication
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Khidr Collective Zine – Issue Four: Water
£8.99In this issue, we present 128 pages of personalised essays, fiction, illustrations, photography and multimedia art exploring our relationship with water. We look at how water affects some of our political and economic structures, and how it transports our personal memories. We explore the manifestation of water in our daily lives, the comfort it provides […]

DOPE Magazine #15 Autumn 2021
£3.00“Across Britain, from Brighton to Edinburgh, DOPE is distributed for homeless people to sell on the streets. People ranging from rough sleepers to asylum seekers can collect the newspaper for free, sell it for the cover price of £3 and keep the proceeds.” – New Statesman DOPE Magazine is a quarterly newspaper published by Dog […]
DOPE Magazine #15 Autumn 2021
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An Phoblacht #3 – 2021
£4.00This An Phoblacht has an exclusive article by Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland Jilan Wahba. Mairead Farrell and Joe Guinan unwrap the potential of Community Wealth Building policies. We have extensive features on 40th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strikes with contributions from former republican prisoners Sile Darragh, Jim Gibney, Chrissie McAuley and Pat Sheehan. Roy […]
An Phoblacht #3 – 2021
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LESTE #10
£12.00Housmans are proud to be the only UK stockist of LESTE, a radical bi-annual, risograph printed journal of new erotica based in Montreal, Quebec. LESTE is sex positive and centres queer, trans, BIPOC and neo-fetish erotica. LESTE is ad-free and depends on reader support. Please visit their Instagram for more information on LESTE’s activism. Content […]
LESTE #10
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Bitch Magazine issue 91/ Summer 2021 – Plastic
£12.00The Plastic Issue We live in an inflexible world. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, rapists evade accountability, and the police kill Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people with relative impunity. Our conditions create a sense that the inflexibility of our world is its constant condition, incapable of bending into something beyond what it […]

Resurgence & Ecologist #328 – Tipping point
£6.95Resurgence remains one of the best antidotes to the superficial banalities and mindless materialism that grips contemporary society. Jonathon Porritt About Resurgence & Ecologist Resurgence & Ecologist offers positive perspectives on a range of engaging topics covering ecology, social justice, philosophy, spirituality, sustainable development and the arts – an eclectic mix that cannot be found […]

Adbusters 156 – Battle for the Soul of Economics
£7.50We’re an international collective of activists, artists, writers, designers, musicians, philosophers, poets, punks and wild hearts. Join us as we take down Big Tech. Clean up the toxic areas of our mental environment. Reverse the upward flow of wealth. Punish every corporation that betrays the public trust. Hold corrupt politicians accountable. Wake up a thoughtless, […]

Tribune Summer 21 – Renewing the Left
£9.95About Tribune Magazine “The cause of labour is the hope of the world” – Walter Crane, 1894 Tribune was established in 1937 as a socialist magazine that would give voice to the popular front campaigns against the rising tide of fascism in Europe. For eighty years it has been at the heart of left-wing politics in […]
Tribune Summer 21 – Renewing the Left
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Stormy Petrel -The Theoretical Journal of the Anarchist Communist Group #3
£4.00Stormy Petrel -The Theoretical Journal of the Anarchist Communist Group #3 Hot off the press, this latest issue of Stormy Petrel, the ACG mag is packed full of in-depth and analytical articles. Contents: Editorial: capital is burning No one is safe until everyone is safe: lessons from the pandemic The green new deal: a fake […]

Asylum Magazine Vol 28.1 -The Radical Mental Health Magazine
£4.00Asylum is a quarterly produced radical mental health magazine. This issue opens with a moving extract from Donna Holder’s forthcoming personal memoir reflecting on a year spent as an in-patient (one of our sample articles). We continue with Alastair Kemp’s piece on the politics of language in our current times. Other sample articles in this […]

The View Magazine – Spring 2021
£5.00By and for women in the criminal justice system, their families, NGOs and support networks. The View Magazine is a magazine campaigning platform and is filled with first-person stories – art, and poems by and from women in prison. Women in prison or serving license in the community are paid for their contributions. In the […]
The View Magazine – Spring 2021
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Worms #3 – Biomythography
£15.00Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female and non-binary writer culture. Issue three looks at personal myth-making and the stories that shape us. Featuring Michelle Tea, Moyra Davey, Lynne Tillman, Johanna Hedva, Jenny Hval, Ellen van Neervan, Caroline Calloway, Julie Enszerl and more.
Worms #3 – Biomythography
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Jacobin #42 – The Working Class
£8.95Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Contents of issue 42 The Many Farewells to the Working Class by David Broder How China Avoided a Soviet-Style Collapse an interview with Isabella Weber and Daniel Zamora Lifestyle Environmentalism Will Never Win Over Workers by Matt Huber We […]
Jacobin #42 – The Working Class
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Catalyst 5.2
£9.95Discussion of capitalism is not off the table any longer. Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy launches with the aim of doing everything it can to promote and deepen this conversation. Our focus is, as our title suggests, to develop a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target — both in the North and in […]
Catalyst 5.2
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Good Trouble #21 – The New One
£10.00DIY activist-arts broadsheet GOOD TROUBLE returns with its third issue, with a massive 44 pages of art, protest and creativity, plus a big poster. Basically three magazines in one! Good Trouble, More Trouble & The Waste Land With a special focus on the climate crisis, a dedicated section includes the likes of Olafur Eliasson, Extinction Rebellion and Bill McKibben […]
Good Trouble #21 – The New One
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Cocoon zine 2
£6.50Cocoon 2 features writers from Dazed, The Guardian, Crack, gal-dem, Pitchfork, Gold Flake Paint and more (full list below). – 20 essays – 20 original illustrations from Katy Smail – A5 size 50% of all profits after printing costs will be donated to We Belong, an organisation set up by and for young people who […]
Cocoon zine 2
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Transform : A Journal of the Radical Left #9 June 2021
£8.00Journal of the radical left which seeks to help provide a theoretical basis to advance the left in this new political context. It is informed by Marxism and also welcomes the contribution of other progressive political currents such as feminism and environmentalism. It seeks to theorise and critically analyse: The nature of the period and […]

Archer Magazine #15 – THE FRIENDSHIP ISSUE
£10.00Archer Magazine is an award-winning print publication about sexuality, gender and identity. It is published twice-yearly in Melbourne, Australia, with a focus on lesser-heard voices and the uniqueness of our experiences. “Growing up isn’t just about popping pimples and trying new things. Growing up is about finding a better world, confronting the realities of life and realising […]
Archer Magazine #15 – THE FRIENDSHIP ISSUE
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Staff Picks
The Mercies
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Terminal Boredom : Stories
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Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
£8.99Dialogue Books, Feb 2021 (paperback) Staff pick: Catherine At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London – escaping from a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and the desolate, disempowered Black Country – but finds himself at a loss for a new centre of gravity, and turns to sex […]
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
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Homage to Catalonia
£8.99by Orwell, George | Spanish Civil War Published 07/01/2021 by Vintage in the United Kingdom Paperback | 288 pages THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT ‘There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all’ Both a memoir of Orwell’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute […]
Homage to Catalonia
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Anarchy In Action
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Cane Warriors
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The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
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The Undying : A Meditation on Modern Illness
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