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  • Book Launch: “Mick Lynch: The making of a working-class hero” by Gregor Gall

    We are very excited to welcome Professor Gregor Gall to the bookshop to celebrate the publication of his new book about Mick Lynch, the celebrated trade unionist and General Secretary of the RMT.  In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought […]

    £1 – £20

  • Caliban Shrieks Launch with Jack Chadwick and Ian Patterson

    Join Jack Chadwick as he speaks about rediscovering Caliban Shrieks, Jack Hilton's semi-autobiographical account of northern, working-class life at the turn of the 20th century. Hilton, born in Oldham (Lancashire) in 1900, served […]

    £3 – £16.99

  • Book Talk: The Infinite City by Niall Kishtainy

    ‘Glorious’ GUARIDAN 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable’ Thomas W. Hodgkinson London is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. For centuries, it has been the capital of utopian thought. The Infinite City tells this history for the first time. Housmans are extremely excited to welcome Niall Kishtainy for […]

    £1 – £25

  • Poetry: Lalah-Simone Springer

    Housmans are delighted to be serving as the Central London stop on Lalah-Simone Springer's UK tour in promotion of her brilliant new collection of poems, An Aviary of Common Birds. […]

    £1 – £10.99

  • Book Launch: Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani

    We are incredibly excited to welcome the seminal author and academic Amin Ghaziani over from Canada for a special talk at Housmans centering on his latest book Long Live Queer Nightlife: how the closing of gar bars sparked a revolution. A brilliant sociological intervention into the history of the 'gay bar' and its subsequent evolution […]

    £1 – £25

  • BOOK LAUNCH: GREASEPAINT by Hannah Levene

    We are thrilled to be hosting the UK launch for Hannah Levene's thrilling new work of experimental lesbian fiction, GREASEPAINT! Drawing from her research into Butch Dyke culture and the […]

    £1 – £12.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: A Primer on Utopian Philosophy

    How Ernst Bloch's work can provide new hope for utopian thinking today. Housmans are delighted to welcome John Greenaway back to the shop after he so brilliantly helped us launch Bill Cashmore's fantastic 'We Hear Only Ourselves' last year. Billie will also be returning, this time to serve as John's interlocuter, as he launches A […]

    £1 – £7.5

  • Book Talk: Half-Earth Socialism

    Housmans are delighted to welcome Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass to the shop to celebrate the paperback launch of their seminal book Half-Earth Socialism. Without revolutionary change, humanity confronts a […]

    £1 – £9.99

  • Book Talk: Change Everything by Natalie Bennett

    Housmans are delighted to welcome Natalie Bennett to the shop to celebrate the publication of her new book of green political theory: Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society. We are living in a social, political, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the […]

    £1 – £10.99

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