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  • An Evening with Calvin John Smiley

    Housmans are extremely excited to welcome the inimitable scholar, sociologist and criminologist Dr Calvin John Smiley to the shop to discuss his work. Calvin's brilliant writing concerns prison abolition, race, inequality, and social justice and these will be the primary themes of discussion on the evening. He will be focusing especially on his two most […]

    £1 – £14.99

  • POETRY READING: NAT RAHA launches ‘apparitions (nines)’

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    We are very, very excited to be welcoming the legendary poet Nat Raha to Housmans for the official UK launch of her new book, apparitions (nines). A vital figure in UK, and wider Anglophone, vanguardist poetry for many years Raha's newest experiment in lyric writing promises to be characteristically invigorating. Reading alongside Nat we'll have […]

    £1.00 – £12.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: Your Right To Protest by Christian Weaver

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    Housmans are very excited to be welcoming Christian Weaver to shop to celebrate the official launch of his vital new book Your Right To Protest. Christian is a human rights barrister, social justice campaigner. His first book The Law In 60 Seconds: A Pocket Guide To Your Rights, has been a long time staple of […]

    £1 – £8.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY by Benjamin Barson

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    This is gonna be a good one...Jazz! Theory! LIVE MUSIC!! Housmans will be hosting the wonderful scholar and musician Benjamin Barson for the official UK launch of his seminal new book, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African […]

    £1 – £29.5

  • BOOK LAUNCH: ‘The Picture of Contented New Wealth’ – Tariq Godard in conversation with Alex Niven

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    It's spooky season! Help us celebrate All Hallows Eve by welcoming Tariq Godard to the shop for the (re)launch of his acclaimed work of political horror: The Picture of Contented New Wealth. One of the most important and era defining satires on Neoliberal Britain written during the dying days of New Labour, and anticipating, in […]

    £1 – £10

  • An evening with Richard Seymour

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    Housmans are thrilled to be welcoming Richard Seymour to the shop for a double book launch! Richard is one of the country's pre-eminent leftist thinkers and writers and we are extremely lucky to help celebrate his latest polemic, from Verso, Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization as well as the new paperback re-issue of […]

    £1 – £31

  • BOOK LAUNCH How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road by Gareth Dennis

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    Please join us for what is promising to be a really engaging and informative talk with railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis. His new book How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world […]

    £1 – £10.99

  • BOOK TALK: Reasons to Rebel by Sheila Rowbotham

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    Please join us for a evening with celebrated socialist-feminist Sheila Rowbotham We are thrilled to welcome Sheila Rowbotham back to Housmans and to celebrate the latest volume of her memoirs, […]

    Free – £17.99

  • Celebrating David Graeber

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    On February 12, 2025 — his birthday — we will be celebrating the life and thought of the much missed David Graeber. Joining us will be David's friend, the writer, […]

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  • BOOK TALK: Neuroqueer: A Neurodivergent Guide to Love, Sex, and Everything in Between by Cj Debarra

    We are delighted to be welcoming the wonderful journalist and public speaker CJ DeBarra to talk about their essential guide to love, sex and dating while neurodivergent. Hitting their mid-thirties and still uncertain about relationships, sex, and love, CJ DeBarra launched into a quest for understanding. Growing up in West Cork, Ireland, CJ knew they […]

    £1 – £9.99

  • Book Launch: PINK-PILLED: Women and The Far Right

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    Housmans are very excited to be hosting the London launch for this daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online. As the far right has gained […]

    £1 – £12.99

  • BOOK LAUNCH: The Psychic Lives of Statues by Rahul Rao

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    The Psychic Lives of Statues Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past […]

    £1 – £20

  • Book Talk: THE WAGES OF DREAM WORK: Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor

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    Housmans are absolutely delighted to be welcoming Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel to the shop to discuss their essential new book from Minor Compositions:The Wages of Dreamwork. Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor. Surviving as a cultural or artistic worker in the city has never been easy. Creative workers find themselves celebrated […]

    £1 – £18

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