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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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TALK: NO TO NUCLEAR! Linda Pentz Gunter in conversation with Jonathon Porritt
Featured‘Linda Pentz Gunter has done a great service in highlighting the nuclear chain reaction and exposing the huge human and environmental costs. We need this book for our environment and a peaceful world’ – Jeremy Corbyn We are delighted to welcome Linda Pentz Gunter to Housmans to discuss her new book No To Nuclear. Brilliantly […]
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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: The Othered Woman How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women by Shahed Ezaydi
Featured‘An urgent, vital contribution to the feminist conversation – one that tears through the comfortable myth of universal sisterhood’ – Alya Mooro, author of The Greater Freedom Growing up, journalist Shahed Ezaydi was often asked how she could call herself a feminist and still practise her faith. It’s a question that reveals a deeper issue […]
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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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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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NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES
FeaturedNEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION Join us for a conversation between two of the most brilliant writers of psychogeography working the country at the moment as they talk about their recent published works. Christine Donovan's novel Dériveville explores the long term influence of the Situationist International. Setin 1981 in Paris it […]
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BOOK TALK: The Journal of a Kurdish Political Prisoner
FeaturedJoin for a discussion of the journal of Kurdish revolutionary, Ali Poyraz. He spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. He was born in 1962 in Bozüyük, an Alevi village in the Gürün district of Sivas. According to Yeni Özgür Politika, his political consciousness was shaped by his older brother, Hüseyin Poyraz (also […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: PRIVATISING HUMANITY BY KATE BAYLIS
JOIN KATE BAYLIS AND ADRIENNE BULLER FOR AN ESSENTIAL CONVERSATON ON HOW BASIC HUMAN NEEDS BECOME FINANCIAL ASSETS. Privatising Humanity is a powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets. We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh […]
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BOOK TALK: PUNK SPIRIT!
FeaturedAN ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK ROCK, SPIRITUALITY AND LIBERATION We are super excited to welcome John Malkin over from California to talk about his incredible, and as far as we can tell, unique, book: Punk Spirit! We've had countless books about punk (not to mention zines) pass through Housmans over the year but none that […]
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SOLD OUT: REVOLUTIONARY FORGIVENESS: D. K. RENTON in conversation with Barnaby Raine
FeaturedTHIS EVENT IT NOW SOLD OUT. TO BE ADDED TO A WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@HOUSMANS.COM Housmans are delighted to welcome the legendary theorist, thinker and lawyer D.K. Renton to launch what we believe may be one of the most original, and vital, works of left wing thought to appear in recent years. He will […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: THE ASSET CLASS: HETTIE O’BRIEN IN CONVERSATION WITH DAN HANCOX
Featured'PART WAKE-UP CALL, PART FINANCIAL THRILLER' (SHAMI CHAKRABARTI) The Asset Class is an equal parts thrilling and enraging work of vital financial journalism, lifting the lid on the relentlessly destructive force of private equity. We are thrilled to welcome the book's author Hettie O'Brien to Housmans to be interviewed about the book by celebrated journalist […]
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BOOK LAUNCH: THE PLOT IS ON FIRE: Manuela Zechner in conversation with Max Haiven
FeaturedWe are delighted to welcome Manuela Zechner to Housmans to talk about her truly original and radical work in postcolonial eco-theory. As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for earthcare? The […]
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BOOK TALK: Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai
FeaturedWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities. Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first […]
Free – £12.99
