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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 […]

    £2.50 – £12.99

  • BOOK TALK: PUNK SPIRIT!

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    AN 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 […]

    £5.00 – £25.00

  • SOLD OUT: REVOLUTIONARY FORGIVENESS: D. K. RENTON in conversation with Barnaby Raine

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    THIS 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 […]

    £2.50 – £11.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: THE ASSET CLASS: HETTIE O’BRIEN IN CONVERSATION WITH DAN HANCOX

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    '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 […]

    Get Tickets £2.50 – £20.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: The Forest Fights Back with Jessica den Outer

    Join Us For A Discussion Of A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature with Jessica den Outer in conversation with Grant Wilson As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, ecosystems are collapsing, and the planet’s future hangs in the balance. For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something to be […]

    £2.50 – £14.99

  • HAJAR READS

    ‘At this, the man turned in their direction and smiled; he played not for the dream of success but because this new world necessitated beauty of all kinds. The new world was not just labour, but labour for the sake of life-making.’ — Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Join us for Hajar Reads: Play. […]

  • BOOK LAUNCH: THE PLOT IS ON FIRE: Manuela Zechner in conversation with Max Haiven

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    We 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 […]

    £2.50 – £16.99

  • HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES

    INTRODUCING THE FIRST IN OUR POET’S PROSE SEQUENCE We are delighted to welcome two extremely exciting poets to Housmans for the first installment of our Summer Poetry Series. This season we’re going to be doing something a bit different and focusing instead on the work that poets produce outside of ‘traditional’ lyric modes; focusing instead on prose; […]

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  • BOOK TALK: Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai

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    When 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

  • BOOK LAUNCH: Privatising humanity by Kate Bayliss

    Kate Bayliss in conversation with Adrienne Buller 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 areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are […]

    £2.50 – £12.99

  • The Word in Others’ Mouths: Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder in conversation

    The Word in Others' Mouths: Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder in conversation Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder come together to launch new chapbooks from Ottawa's above/ground press.  Rudy's Consequences gathers a thousand sentences — from feminist theorists, queer poets, songs, private conversations, and decades of notebooks — stripping them of hierarchy and ownership, letting Brossard […]

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  • BOOK TALK: Absolute Ethical Life: Michael Lazarus in conversation with Bruno Leipold

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    Aristotle, Hegel and Marx: Michael Lazarus In Conversation with Bruno Leipold Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life provides crucial resources for understanding […]

    £2.50 – £22.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: THE NEXT FIX by KOJO KORAM

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    The question is no longer if we should legalise drugs. It's: what happens when we do? The future of drugs is here, and it's dangerously unequal. Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerous, while substances criminalised for generations […]

    £2.50 – £22.00

  • BOOK LAUNCH: TURNING AWAY by BENJAMIN A. SALTZMAN

    A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. This is a work of breathtaking scholarship. We are delighted to welcome its author, Benjamin A Saltzman, to Housmans for its UK launch. He will be in conversation with Revd Dr Ayla Lepine. Why […]

    £2.50 – £24.00

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