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, […]

PEACE ACTIVISTS UNCOVER THE TRUTH OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE BUSINESS IN THE WORLD Equips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity's urge to commit suicide. Read it!' - Yanis Varoufakis Housmans are very excited to welcome the legendary ANDREW FEINSTEIN and VIJAY PRASHAD to the shop discuss a vital […]

Help us celebrate the publication of Professor Martin Shaw's 'whirlwind tour' of the CND and its history, a organistion very close to Housman's heart, culturally and historically intertwined with us and the larger peace movement. The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw […]

AUTONOMY NOW! PRESENT: 'Colin Ward: the anarchist tradition and do-it-yourself urbanism' with Verity-Jane Keefe and Ken Worpole ENTRY FOR THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE LINK AT BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE 2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Britain’s most famous anarchist, Colin Ward, and the publication of Mutual Aid, Everyday Anarchy: Essays […]

Join us in celebrating the launch of Natalie Fenton's urgent new book: Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It. A free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are deemed to be dying or on the demise […]