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  • A Black Feminist Book Club

    A (monthly) book club for Black women, femmes and non-binary people to focus on self care, empowerment and community connections. This month we're back at Housmans Bookshop. Our July pick is Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo by Rebecca Walker. Feel free to bring snacks. We'll hang around after the event for a bit of […]

  • The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: Maya Oppenheim in conversation with Nadia Whittome MP

    Housmans are absolutely delighted to welcome writer and journalist Maya Oppenheim to the shop alongside the brilliant Nadia Whittome MP to celebrate the publication of Maya's new book, 'The Pocket Guide to Patriarchy'. Across the world, women are still denied opportunities and rights. The home remains the most dangerous place for women to be worldwide; […]

    £1 – £13

  • Book Launch: Dear Lettera 32 by Cat Chong

    Please join us to celebrate the publication of Cat Chong’s ‘Dear Lettera 32’, the first physical publication by PermeableBarrier, an online journal of art and poetry. Cat Chong, one of our most exciting young up and coming poets, will be joined by special guest readers: Nisha Ramayya, JD Howse, Briony Hughes and Kat Sinclair. Dear […]

    £2 – £12

  • BOOK LAUNCH: Love the World Or Get Killed Trying ALVINA CHAMBERLAND in conversation with JULIET JACQUES

    Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Alvina Chamberland to celebrate the publication of her hotly anticipated autofictional work Love the World Or Get Killed Trying. Named a Most Anticipated Book in Nylon, Them, Ms. Magazine, Autostraddle, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area Reporter, LGBTQ-reads, and Write or Die-Magazine. “Perhaps some hearts are so big they must […]

    £1 – £11.99

  • POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID! So Mayer and Kate Hardie in conversation.

    Our speakers: Kate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter, her acting work includes The Krays, Mona Lisa, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing, lectured […]

    £1 – £21

  • Book Launch: PINK-PILLED: Women and The Far Right

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    Housmans are very excited to be hosting the London launch for this daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online. As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting […]

    £1 – £12.99

  • Book Talk: Celebrating 35 years of ‘The Sexual Politics of Meat’ With Carol J. Adams

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    The inimitable Carol J Adams will be returning to Housmans this Spring to join us in celebrating 35 years since the publication of her seminal work of Feminist-Vegan critical theory The Sexual Politics of Meat. First published in 1990, Carol J. Adams' revolutionary work has engaged, enraged, inspired and challenged readers with its exploration of […]

    £1 – £19.99

  • POETRY READING: Briony Hughes launches SPECULATIVE FREQUENCIES

    We are excited to welcome the daring and innovative poetry press Permeable Barrier back to Housmans and help them launch their sophomore publication: Speculative Frequencies by Briony Hughes. ​In this invigorating new collection, Briony Hughes uses her experiences tracking bats through the Surrey Hills as a means to expand 'communication' beyond the human body. The bat […]

    Free

  • BOOK LAUNCH: REMEMBERING WOMEN by Christine Lehnen

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    Women do have a history of their own. All we need to do is remember it. We are delighted to welcome Dr Christine Lehnen to Housmans to discuss her illuminating new investigation, Remembering Women, that looks back at our collective memory to explore the myriad ways that women in the past have enjoyed a more […]

    £1.00 – £20.00

  • the87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 7.0, a literary salon

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    Join the87press for a very special Hummingbirds event featuring Alia Al Ghussain and Rayya El Zein to celebrate the launch of Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic (Indiana University Press, 2025). Based on ethnographic research in Ramallah (Palestine), Amman (Jordan), and Beirut (Lebanon), Filling the Head reveals how youths in these cities have maneuvered the challenges of making […]

  • Housmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’

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    Join us for another poetry evening, this time in collaboration with our great friends Osmosis Press, launching a new collection, ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’, from Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain. Prudence will be reading from the book alongside a host a fabulous guest readers (tbc). This is a free event, but please RSVP below. Feel free to […]

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  • CANCELLED: A Short History of Queer Parenting with Kirsty Loehr

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    Kirsty Loehr's first book A Short History of Queer Women, a brilliantly written and incisive history of female same-sex desire was one of Housmans' best-selling titles in 2024. So we are DELIGHTED that she's back with another brilliantly written and incisive (and warm and funny!!) history, this time of Queer Parenting! Queer families, Kirsty argues, […]

    £9.00

  • MAY WE FEED THE KING: Writing Radical Fiction Today with Rebecca Perry & Misha Honcharenko

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    Perry 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 […]

    £2.50 – £14.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: The Mixed + Multiracial Guide To Wellbeing with Namalee Bolle

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    Join 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 […]

    £2.50 – £15.99

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