Book Launch
Events
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POETRY Imogen Cassels & Fintan Calpin
FeaturedWe're extremely excited for the next Housmans poetry series featuring a double launch for two brilliant poets. We will have the frighteningly sharp, inimitable Imogen Cassels launching her latest pamphlet, Peach Machine (from The Last Books) and the terrifyingly brilliant, irreplaceable Fintan Calpin launching his Terminal City (recently published by Veer2). THIS IS A FREE […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: WE ARE STILL HERE: STUDENT VOICES FROM GAZA
FeaturedHousmans are honored to be hosting the launch event for this courageous book. We Are Still Here is an anthology of raw, unfiltered, and courageous voices featuring short and long stories, poems, essays, and testimonies written by students from Gaza's universities, edited by Prof. Zahid Pranjol and Dr. Jacob Norris published by Daraja Press. Throughout […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni (in conversation with Helen Hester)
FeaturedHousmans are very excited to welcome Dr Alyssa Battistoni to the shop to discuss her vital work of political theory, Free Gifts: Capitalism and The Politics of Nature. Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Bourgeois Coldness: Henrike Kohpeiß in conversation with Lilly Markaki
FeaturedForegrounding affect, this timely book provides an inestimable philosophical argument for the centrality of Blackness in critical examinations of capitalism’s violence. Denise Ferreira da Silva Elegant and erudite in equal measure, this book will stand as a landmark diagnosis of the practices of denial in our time. Andreas Malm We are delighted to welcome an […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS with Marc Garrett
FeaturedUntamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission Feral Class is Marc Garrett’s deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration of his early years, chronicling his journey as a working-class artist navigating a world that often rejects them. Through humorous, vivid storytelling and incisive critique, Garrett explores how […]
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SOLD OUT! The First Jasmines by Saima Begum
FeaturedPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM Housmans and Hajar Press are delighted to celebrate the launch of this important, magnificent novel. Saima Begum's The First Jasmines follows two sisters, Lucky and Jamila, after they are captured by the military […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: JAW FILLER: Maz Murray & Charlie Markbreiter in conversation with So Mayer
FeaturedExperimental trans neonoir fiction. 'Jaw Filler instantly joins the canon of outlier literature: jaw-dropper, more like.’ - Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold Housmans and Montez Press invites you to a conversation around the new neonoir novel Jaw Filler by Maz Murray & Charlie Markbreiter, hosted by writer So Mayer. Tickets are free but booking is essential. 'You […]
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Housmans Valentine’s Day Special: COURTING DISASTER with Zoë McGee
FeaturedFan of a Romantic Period Drama? Can't stand the stuff? Either way, we've got the event for you. Come and deconstruct Romance this Valentine's Day with Housmans and Zoë McGee We'll be discussing Zoë's fabulous new work of Romantic Deconstruction: Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel. What do #MeToo and Jane […]
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MAY WE FEED THE KING: Writing Radical Fiction Today with Rebecca Perry & Misha Honcharenko
FeaturedPerry combines effortless exactitude with canny ambiguity to create a novel that is always as stimulating as it is enchanting. 'May We Feed the King' is a rare achievement, I absolutely loved it. Claire-Louise Bennett We are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting writers working in Britain today, Rebecca Perry and Misha Honcharenko, to Housmans for […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: Frontierlands by Hazel Sheffield
Featured'Hazel Sheffield's book is a warming remedy to the creeping nihilism many feel about the places where they live,' Jen Calleja We are delighted to welcome Hazel Sheffield to the shop to discuss her inspiring new book about Britain’s abandoned and neglected places and the opportunities they present for communities, and how they can help […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: The Mixed + Multiracial Guide To Wellbeing with Namalee Bolle
FeaturedJoin us for a celebratory evening of radical mixed + multiracial discussion! "What aaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeee you?!"If you just had that familiar sinking feeling, this book is for you. Do you point out how alienating and othering that question is? Stand your ground and explain that you don't have to justify your existence with a pie chart […]
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BOOK TALK: Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century: Laurent de Sutter in conversation with Alfie Bown
FeaturedUsing the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from Aristotle to punk-led attitude, biojewelry, and the historical buildup of authority billed to the triumph of reason in its many intrusive morphs.— Avital Ronell, New York University […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: RADICAL JUSTICE: Building the World We Need with Nani Jansen Reventlow
FeaturedHousmans are delighted to be hosting an event around this essential new book -- a stalwart guide to strengthen the movement for freedom and equality for all. Our society is breaking down. Fascists are winning elections, economic inequality is rampant, and the climate crisis is at its tipping point. It feels like the amount of […]
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Marco Perolini launches ‘Migration and Mobile Rights’
Activism, Racial Justice, and Human Rights from Below Please note this an externally organised event. You can RSVP using this link: https://www.easy-rsvp.com/G3uqJ0-book-launch-migration-and-mobile-rights
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SOLD OUT!: Suicide by Roger Hallam
FeaturedSOLD OUT Housmans welcome Roger Hallam to discuss his essential new book: Suicide: The Political and Legal Implications of Creating Endless Mass Death. In the age of climate collapse, telling the truth has become a criminal act. From a cell in Wayland Prison, Roger Hallam—farmer, researcher, and co-founder of Just Stop Oil—delivers a searing indictment […]
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