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  • Poetry for the Many : 9th December Jeremy Corbyn In-Store Signing

    Jeremy Corbyn will be at Housmans Bookshop on Saturday 9th December 2023 between 4 and 6pm, signing copies of Poetry for the Many: An Anthology. To book your place and get your copy signed in person, you must order your copy in advance from our website, using the link below. Make sure you order the product titled Poetry […]

  • The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: Maya Oppenheim in conversation with Nadia Whittome MP

    Housmans are absolutely delighted to welcome writer and journalist Maya Oppenheim to the shop alongside the brilliant Nadia Whittome MP to celebrate the publication of Maya's new book, 'The Pocket Guide to Patriarchy'. Across the world, women are still denied opportunities and rights. The home remains the most dangerous place for women to be worldwide; […]

    £1 – £13

  • Book Launch: Dear Lettera 32 by Cat Chong

    Please join us to celebrate the publication of Cat Chong’s ‘Dear Lettera 32’, the first physical publication by PermeableBarrier, an online journal of art and poetry. Cat Chong, one of our most exciting young up and coming poets, will be joined by special guest readers: Nisha Ramayya, JD Howse, Briony Hughes and Kat Sinclair. Dear […]

    £2 – £12

  • Book Launch: Of Talons and Teeth: A Novel by Niall Griffiths

    We are very excited to welcome the novelist Niall Griffiths to Housmans on February 23rd to celebrate the publication of his new novel Of Talons and Teeth: an historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom. Niall will be in conversation with the brilliant Gary […]

    £1 – £10.99

  • 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

  • ‘Eaten By The Internet’ with Corinne Cath and Fieke Jansen [at Space4, Finsbury Park]

    ‘Eaten By The Internet’ with Corinne Cath and Fieke Jansen Housmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology In this first session we’ll be hosting Dr. Corinne Cath and Dr. Fieke Jansen to talk about the politics of internet infrastructure […]

  • 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 in the army during the First World War before experiencing a period of homelessness in which he worked odd jobs and became involved in the […]

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  • 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. An Aviary of Common Birds is Lalah-Simone Springer’s first collection of poetry. It is an emotionally raw work built on the poet’s deep wells of […]

    £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

  • ‘How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It’ with Joshua Dávila [at Space4, Finsbury Park]

    'How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It' with Joshua Dávila Housmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology In this second session we’ll be hosting Joshua Dávila to talk about his work and book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and […]

  • A Thousand Little Machines: Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, A/Traverso and the Movement of ’77

    In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions, belonging to the autonomia movement, were characterised by a mass refusal of wage-labour and powered by novel experiments in communication, in particular the printed word. Hundreds of revolutionary newspapers known as 'movement sheets', would circulate Italy […]

    £1 – £15

  • 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 Yiddish Anarchist tradition Levene's novel is like nothing else you'll ever read: in one of many bars, Frankie Gold sings while Sammy Silver plays piano […]

    £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

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