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FeaturedBook Launch: THREE REVOLUTIONS: Simon Hall in conversation with Owen Hatherley
Simon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be joining us to discuss Simon's fascinating new book, THREE REVOLUTIONS: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World. From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana, in January 1959, […]
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FeaturedBook Talk: THE MERCY STEP: Marcia Hutchinson in conversation with Mel Pennant
Gosh this is an exciting one! Join us for a wonderful evening with two incredible authors from the Windrush generation: Marcia Hutchinson and Mel Pennant. The two will be discussing Marcia's fantastic recent novel, The Mercy Step. Bradford, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace […]
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FeaturedACTIVIST TALK: ‘ALL HANDS ON DECK’ with Jan Goodey
We welcome legendary activist Jan Goodey to the shop to help celebrate the launch of his essential new book All Hands On Deck: Climate Activism and the way ahead, out now from PM Press. A member of Just Stop Oil, and among those imprisoned for his climate actions, Jan is a seasoned and courageous activist. […]
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FeaturedDOUBLE LAUNCH: Danny Hayward AND Matthew Goulish
Housmans and both are worse are delighted to be launching two new excellent essay collections, Training Exercises by Danny Hayward and Kingfisher by Matthew Goulish. 'both are worse' publish short prose books that make an engaging comment on the state of poetry and/or poetics, stretches some horizons, pushes out beyond an impasse, heaps up obstructions, […]
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Featuredthe87press & Housmans Bookshop present: Hummingbirds 7.0, a literary salon
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 […]
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FeaturedPOETRY Imogen Cassels & Fintan Calpin
We'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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FeaturedBOOK LAUNCH: WE ARE STILL HERE: STUDENT VOICES FROM GAZA
Housmans 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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FeaturedBOOK LAUNCH: Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni (in conversation with Helen Hester)
Housmans 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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FeaturedBOOK LAUNCH: Bourgeois Coldness: Henrike Kohpeiß in conversation with Lilly Markaki
Foregrounding 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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FeaturedBOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS with Marc Garrett
Untamed, 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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FeaturedSOLD OUT! The First Jasmines by Saima Begum
PLEASE 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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FeaturedHousmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’
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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FeaturedBOOK LAUNCH: SEA NOW: Eva Meijer in conversation with Lucy Mercer
event for an exciting Dutch writer supported by Arts Council England and New Dutch Writing. 'Sea Now joins Meijer's rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence. One could read this novel as the story of two characters—the Netherlands and the sea—posing a question of each other: What am I? What and who […]
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CANCELLED: A Short History of Queer Parenting with Kirsty Loehr
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, […]
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FeaturedBOOK LAUNCH: JAW FILLER: Maz Murray & Charlie Markbreiter in conversation with So Mayer
Experimental 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 […]
