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HOUSMANS READING SERIES: LUKE ROBERTS PRESENTS ‘BAD OMENS’
FeaturedPOET'S PROSE #2 For the next instalment of Poet's Prose sequence (a series of events celebrating cross-disciplinary efforts by radical anglophone poets experimenting outside of the traditional lyric form) we welcome to Housmans the inimitable Luke Roberts, who will be reading from his new book of essays, aphorisms, contemplations, Bad Omens. Drawn from a decade’s […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: KILL BILLIONAIRE with ANDERS LUSTGARTEN
Kill Billionaire: The Riotous Revenge Caper You've Been Waiting for Kill Billionaire is the best sort of political thriller: gripping, revenge fueled and unapologetically radical in its politics, discussing climate change and the elite. When her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian outback genius Kayla Connolly decides to hunt down the culprits of climate […]
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HOUSING READING SERIES: HUW LEMMEY IN CONVERSATION WITH JULIET JACQUES
FeaturedAren't you just SICK of gay fiction about nice boys just trying their best? BOREDof the sort of cosy political satire that makes Alistair Campbell chuckle? FINALLY! After years of waiting, Huw Lemmey's cult classics are back in print::CHUBZ: The Demonization of My Working Arse and RED TORY: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell,two novels of terrifying […]
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HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: JD HOWSE
FeaturedIt starts with the Buggery Act of 1533. Or perhaps the arrest of Eleanor Rykener. Or perhaps the execution of James Pratt and John Smith. The truism goes that queer people have always been here, but for as long as there have been written records of us those records have dealt with our suppression, criminalisation, […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: FLOYDS GONE by Jacob A. Smith
FeaturedCome celebrate the launch of a brilliant and daring new short story collection published by eidolon ink Jacob A. Smith is launching his debut story collection, Floyds Gone, at Housmans Bookshop! Please join us on July 22nd to celebrate the release of his book. All author and publisher profits from the evening go to Medical […]
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HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: JAMES BYRNE
FeaturedJoin us for another evening of cutting edge poetry. For this instalment, we are delighted to welcome the legendary James Byrne to the shop to launch his latest collection The Banality of Power (Broken Sleep Books, 2026) Joining him we have the incredible Ziba Karbassi and are delight to welcome back long time friend of […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: INTERNATIONAL FREAK ROBIN FARQUHARSON AND THE DREAM OF PSYCHEDELIC REVOLT
M. SYD ROSEN AND OWEN HATHERLEY DISCUSS THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF COUNTERCULTURAL ICON ROBIN FARQUHARSON 'Rosen is an intergenerational talent. That is, he seems to move effortlessly across decades, from dark matter to illumination; gleaning, recovering, challenging, making new.' Iain Sinclair Born in 1930 into a privileged South African family, Robin Farquharson was part […]
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HOUSMANS READING SERIES: Valerie Hsiung with Verity Spott, Andrea Brady and others
We are delighted to welcome the incredible Valerie Hsiung to Housmans, visiting us from the mountains of Colorado in USA. Joining her we have some of the finest poets working in Britain today. We will be celebrating Valerie's latest book, The pedestrian: a poet’s novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror […]
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POETRY READING: ELLEN RENTON LAUNCHES ‘YOU AND YOURS’
FeaturedJoin us for an evening of poetry to mark the launch of Ellen Renton's new pamphlet. You and Yours: Swinging across timelines and from the mundane to the surreal, You and Yours is a study in grief: how it exists beyond seismic losses in the stories we inherit, in shifting friendships, and in uncertain landscapes. […]
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‘FLAMBOYANCE’ WITH JACK PARLETT IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER SCALPELLO
JACK PARLETT AND CELEBRATED POET PETER SCALPELLO DISCUSS 'FLAMBOYANCE' AND HOW IT IGNITES EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES, FROM ART AND ENTERTAINMENT TO RITUAL AND PROTEST. Flamboyance is Jack Parlett's follow up to his acclaimed Fire Island (A Housmans bestseller of 2022). This new book has all the qualities one has come to expect of […]
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Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn
FeaturedWe are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world's greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer Jennifer Higgie. Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always poetic works are dotted […]
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