Housmans are honoured to have been donated the private library of our recently departed friend, the author Dawn Foster. Dawn died this summer, aged just 34. We have shared this obituary from Adam Ramsay before in a previous newsletter, but for those who missed it, here it is again. As you might imagine from her writings, […]
We are very happy to be able to offer a free £5 National Book Token eGift Card with every online Housmans order, whilst stocks last – we have 100 book tokens to give away! Simply make an order from our online shop, and when you receive your books included in the package will be a […]
Housmans Bookshop is looking for an Events Host for its online evening events programme. The main role of the events host will be to introduce and manage Housmans’ online events. This is a fixed term position for 8 months from September 2021, with the possibility of extension. You would work four evening events each month […]
Housmans are running a sale of books collected over the years by Mike Marqusee. Mike, who wrote several books, including two volumes of poetry, and countless articles about cricket, popular music, the Labour Party, the Indian subcontinent, US politics, the anti-racist struggle and much else, was also an enthusiastic collector. Over sixty boxes of his […]
From 11am Saturday 17th July Housmans will be having a sale of the library of the late writer and political activist Mike Marqusee, who died of cancer in 2015 aged 61. We are extremely thankful to Mike’s partner Liz Davies for donating the books to us. Numbering approximately 1,000 titles, the books reflect Mike’s varied […]