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  • An Evening with Richard Norton-Taylor

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    Richard Norton-Taylor is a living legend: on staff at The Guardian since the early 70s, and now working at Declassified UK, he is most known as one of the finest, and uncompromising, journalists working today. Housmans are delighted that he has agreed to join for an evening to reflect on his career, on the state […]

    Free – £12.99

  • Poetry: A Celebration of Jack Spicer

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    For the second installment of our October poery series we once again celebrate the much underappreciated 20th century American poet Jack Spicer, after our sold out event for the uncollected poems last year. This time we launch two books: the collected letters and lectures,which will be either read from, or responded to by, a host […]

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  • BOOK LAUNCH: WE ARE STILL HERE: STUDENT VOICES FROM GAZA

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    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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  • BOOK LAUNCH: Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni (in conversation with Helen Hester)

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    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 […]

    Free – £35.00

  • BOOK LAUNCH: Bourgeois Coldness: Henrike Kohpeiß in conversation with Lilly Markaki

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    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 […]

    Free – £13.99

  • Book Lauch: THE SPECTRAL WOMAN with Ciara Cremin

    ‘A radical feminisation of the world’ – McKenzie Wark Housmans is delighted to welcome Ciara Cremin all the way from New Zealand to discuss her mind-blowing book The Spectral Woman. What if the feminine holds the power to undo domination itself? In The Spectral Woman, Ciara Cremin reveals the feminine as the force which can abolish […]

    Free – £24.99

  • Autonomy Now present ‘Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons’ with Matt York

    Autonomy Now present 'Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons' with Matt York Based on award-winning research, Love and Revolution (Manchester University Press, Contemporary Anarchist Studies series, 2025) brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists - discussing real-life […]

    Free – £25.00

  • TALK: Remembering Women: Lessons From the Ancient World with Christine Lehnen

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

    Free – £20.00

  • BOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS with Marc Garrett

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    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 […]

    Free – £16.00

  • SOLD OUT! The First Jasmines by Saima Begum

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    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 […]

    £1.00 – £12.50

  • 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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  • BOOK LAUNCH: SEA NOW: Eva Meijer in conversation with Lucy Mercer

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    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 […]

    Free – £12.99

  • 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

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