the87press & Housmans Bookshop present Hummingbirds 3.0: a literary salon with Karenjit Sandhu and Kiran Bath Hummingbirds is a new literary salon series from the87press, designed to celebrate poetry and place different poets in discussion. The hummingbird is a surrealist motif that symbolises love and dialogue, something which we wish to foster further within poetry and […]

We are very happy to welcome Nicole Louie and Rose Diell to the shop to discuss their brilliant work. Nicole's wonderful recent book Others Like Me is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don’t have children. It’s also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find […]

Housmans are thrilled to be welcoming Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee to the shop to discuss their American Book Award winning, and The American Library in Paris Book Award longlisted, adaption of C.L.R. James's celebrate play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History. PERHAPS THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE OPPRESSED […]

Housmans are delighted to welcome the brilliant Out-Spoken Press to the shop to celebrate the launch of Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit's brilliant new pamphlet Tongueless. Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit is a Kurdish writer and poet. She is trilingual, her poetry probes the themes of language, exile and womanhood. Amongst other places, her work has been published in […]

Housmans are very excited indeed to be welcoming one of our most beloved authors to the shop, Sarah Jaffe, for the UK launch of her excoriating, thrilling and moving new work of non-fiction: From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, of unraveling […]

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Housmans are very excited to be welcoming the brilliant Toby Manning to the shop to discuss his fantastic and all encompassing new tome: Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music. A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period’s most popular music. Mixing […]

CANCELLED: We regret that due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to cancel this event. We hope to reschedule at a later date. We welcome back to Housmans Sheila Rowbotham to dissect the 1980s, to go through her own “reasons to rebel” and discuss the outcome of that rebellion. It was the worst of times, […]