🎄The Book Works Winter Sale is now on! 🎄
🎄50% off a huge range of titles 🎄
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“This is the funniest, knottiest, most exhilaratingly jaded debut of the year.”

– Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine & Children of Radium

The Kingdom by @Yoelnoreally is available to preorder now: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

The first edition of Stems, a book fair focused on indie and experimental publishing, is this weekend.

19–20 July, 11–6pm
Helen Marten Studio, 55 Laburnum St, E2 8BD

Programme of talks on Sunday at 6pm curated by Eve Esfandiari-Denney/Thea McLachlan.

Free/no booking needed

Our Summer Sale is now on, with 50% off most of our books 😲

Shop here: bookworks.org.uk/sale/

We're hiring a new part-time finance manager
1.5 days/week. Based in London but hybrid possible. £38k pro rata. Deadline: midnight, 7 July 2025.

Full details/apply here:
bookworks.org.uk/news/job-vacan…

Tonight is the last chance to hear the incredible @K_Scanlan_ on this tour. She's in conversation with the equally brilliant Holly Pester at @Foyles Charing Cross tonight at 7pm.

Tickets here: foyles.co.uk/events/kathryn…

Or if you're in Cambridge tomorrow (Wed 11th) there is a reading event in the English Faculty hosted by Bhanu Kapil.

Free and open to all, readings start 7.15 sharp, all done by 8.30.

Sold out again! But you can join us in London on Thursday 12 June at @Foyles Charing Cross where Kathryn Scanlan is in conversation with Holly Pester - tickets here:

foyles.co.uk/events/kathryn…

Tickets for @foyles are available here, including a bargain bundle of £20 for a ticket, book and glass of wine!
foyles.co.uk/events/kathryn…

Cambridge event 11 June at 7pm - free and open to all,

Four UK events for Kathryn Scanlan's Aug 9 – Fog, starting this Friday 6th at Belfast Book Festival, then a sold out @LRBbookshop talk, readings in Cambridge with Bhanu Kapil, and ending at @Foyles on 12 June with an in conversation with Holly Pester!

Booking links to follow.

New event: Kathryn Scanlan & Holly Pester in conversation at @Foyles Charing Cross, 12 June.

foyles.co.uk/events/kathryn…

Marking 77 years of Nabka & the workplace day of action for Palestine, Book Works has formally adopted the guidelines of @PACBI, the cultural arm of the @BDSmovement.

We would like to thank BDS for their guidance, and our artists and board for their support & solidarity.
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We've had an attack of the bad bots on our website &
have had to temporarily close our online shop to new orders : (

We're working on getting it up and running again ASAP.
In the meantime support your local indie bookshop & contact us with any Qs.

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We are excited to announce our new open call series, Satirical Strains, guest-edited by Holly Pester!

We're looking to work with two emerging writers to develop original short books or equivalent. Full details and how to apply here:
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April's book of the month is You are of Vital Importance by Sarah Tripp – 62 pieces of prose fiction/vignettes about character, work, social interaction and artmaking.

Get it here with 30% off all month: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

The readers, they itch for the Titch

Get Mark Titchner's Why and Why Not, our book of the month, for just £7 (30% off) until 31st March

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Great little review of Roy Claire Potter's The Wastes by Phoebe Thomas in STAT, an arts/culture zine for the North West.

statmagazine.org/the-wastes-roy…

Tonight in NYC, Amy Ching-Yan Lam will be presenting her book, Property Journal, at NYU. 6pm ET, 244 Greene Street.

Free but RSVP via QR code below.

Tonight in London - Soho Reading Series ft. @Yoelnoreally and curated by @HannahRegel at the Betsey Trotwood.

Yoel Noorali's short story collection, The Kingdom, is forthcoming from Book Works in October 2025.

We value your feedback <gen>
Please take a few minutes to fill in our reader survey, and we'll give you a 30% discount code as a thank you!

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The Book Works Studio has a new boxmaking evening class starting 3 March and there are just a couple of places left.

Come and learn to make beautiful clamshell and two-part boxes! bookworks.org.uk/studio/bookbin…

Amy Ching-Yan Lam in conversation with Aurelia Guo for the Spring issue of @tankmagazine, discussing how housing makes and unmakes us, via their books Property Journal (Book Works) and World of Interiors (@dividedpublish) 💗

tank.tv/magazine/issue…

Coming in May: Aug 9 — Fog by Kathryn Scanlan

Scanlan’s first novel, now available in the UK for the first time. Preorder it here:

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Our winter book sale is now over, but we're continuing to spoil you with 10% off all of our special edition prints and books.

Work from artists inc Phyllis Christopher, Susan Hiller, Laure Prouvost, Mark Titchner, Katrina Palmer & many more:

bookworks.org.uk/sale/

The Book Works half price sale must (or will, at least) end tomorrow, Friday 31st January 2025!

Payday + January + half-price artist books = 😃

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How I'd Sink Harper's Magazine (with further apologies to Scott King)

Very nice blog on Hamja Ahsan's @ShyRadicals, new year's resolutions and WORMS on the Joy For Santa Cruz substack 🪱

joyforsantacruz.substack.com/p/embracing-sh…

Get the book here: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

A lovely review of Roy Claire Potter's The Wastes from the Field Notes Journal newsletter 💖

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Book Works is a registered charity and you can also support us directly with a one-off donation, or by joining our supporters scheme or readers club.

Donate or read more about the different schemes and ways to support us here: bookworks.org.uk/support/

Our Winter half-price sale continues in January.

Times are tough for small publishers at the moment, and all proceeds go back into our work and programme. If you value and want to support the work we do please consider buying some books in the sale!

bookworks.org.uk/sale/

Some photos from a visit to Katrina Palmer's The Touch Report at the @NationalGallery - we're proud to have been part of this project.

If you can't make it to the show, get the book here: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

No absolute guarantees with the post these days but orders in before the end of the day today will be posted out today or tomorrow and should arrive in time for Xmas!

Plus we've got a half-price sale on most of our list
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We're proud to share Katrina Palmer's powerful speech at the opening of her National Gallery residency show on Tuesday. Full text in alt captions.

The Touch Report is out now: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

Katrina Palmer's The Touch Report launches today!... 'In Palmer’s writing, we encounter an ethics of presence and form that is deeply moving, completely and unbearably real' (says Bhanu Kapil!), published to coincide with her exhibition @NationalGallery, also opening today!

The Book Works Winter Sale is on now! Get 50% off across the back catalogue, now including all 2023 releases.

Last dates for UK orders to arrive by Christmas is 18th December.

Browse/shop here: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

GLASGOW, we'll be at Good Press next Wednesday to launch #PropertyJournal! Amy Ching-Yan Lam will be in conversation with Oisín Roberts.

Wed 4 Dec, 6.30–8pm. Free and open to all, no booking required.

See you there!

This Saturday 30 Nov we are hosting a launch party for Amy Ching-Yan Lam's Property Journal, with readings/convo from Amy & Eve Esfandiari-Denney, @RosaUddoh, Holly Pester and Luke Roberts.

7pm, Reference Point, 2 Arundel St, LDN

Book a free place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

She is currently co-curating an exhibition/lecture series, Design for Resistance, at the American University in Cairo focusing on Marc Rudin/Jihad Mansour, a Swiss graphic designer who designed posters & publications for the Palestinian resistance, especially the PFLP

Tomorrow! The next #GraphicNegotiations is Wed 20 Nov, 1pm. Our guest is Cairo-based designer Engy Aly.

Book your free place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/graphic-nego…

How I'd Sink Artforum (with apologies to Scott King)

We're publishing The Touch Report, based on Katrina Palmer's @NationalGallery residency, in December. It also forms the centrepiece of the show that runs from 11 Dec 2024–2 Mar 2025.

More info/preorder now:
bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

Our next #GraphicNegotiations is on 20 Nov, with the Cairo-based graphic designer and programmer, Engy Aly.

engyaly.com

Book your free ticket here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/graphic-nego…

#BookWorksRecommends

Noor Abed – Stars at Midday /نجوم الضهر A new book by the Palestinian filmmaker and artist Noor Abed is published by @occasionalpaper with a launch at @The_Showroom_
on Tues 5th Nov with @DimaSrouji & Rachael Jarvis

theshowroom.org/events/noor-ab…

Free Palestine by Deborah-Joyce Holman

£40 + VAT, edition of 40

bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

View and order all of them here: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/com…

#GraphicNegotiations, our series of online events with graphic designers, is back for a new series, starting off with Traven T. Croves on Wed 23 October at 1pm.

Register for a free place: eventbrite.com/e/graphic-nego…

And, if you like what you see, sign up to our Readers Club – for just £5 a month (or £50 for the year) you get physical copies of every book we publish, sent out as soon as it's available.

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Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know about new releases, offers, events and open calls:

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Through the Tinnitus by Kamwangi Njue and Black Body Index by Andrew E. Colarusso are available to preorder now and will be published in December.

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Our current series is Arrhythmia, guest-edited by Katrina Palmer, which has commissioned four titles.

The Wastes by Roy Claire Potter and The Medium by Alice Walter are out now:

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We are delighted to announce the guest editor for our next open submission series, The Damned, will be poet, artist and essayist Anne Boyer!

The call and submission guidelines will be going out in early 2025 – follow our socials/newsletter for updates:
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Bookbinding for Beginners starts on 18 September and runs for 9 weeks, Wednesday evenings 6.30–9pm.

bookworks.org.uk/studio/bookbin…

Boxmaking for Beginners starts on 16 September and runs for 8 consecutive Monday evenings from 6.30–9pm.

bookworks.org.uk/studio/bookbin…

TONIGHT! Book Works' Gavin & Louisa will be part of Ways of Recording along with P Eldridge (Sissy Anarchy) & Sophie Seita.

It's a free round table event on DIY publishing hosted by Bleet Zine at @ArtwordsBooks (Clarence rd NOT Broadway Market).

book: ra.co/events/1975294

"All of a sudden you were there, fully. So close to my own terrifying humanness." – a poignant, erotic reflection on touch by @lisaluxx_

bookworks.org.uk/news/final-tou…

An expansive conversation between Diana Georgiou (author) & Bridget Penney (editor) about the writing of Other Reflexes and the social and historical contexts of 90s Cyprus, up now at @3ammagazine
3ammagazine.com/3am/other-refl…

Published in 2005 as part of the Scape Specific series (ed. Sara Wajid), exploring the evolution of a Muslim vernacular in the British landscape

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Book of the month is Usman Saeed & Sukhdev Sandhu's I'll get my coat, a derivé through British Asian ruins and histories.

As with most of our older books we're unlikely to do a new edition – when they're gone they're gone so get it now for just £4.63!
bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

On 7th August we're doing the first ever irl edition of Graphic Negotiations at @londonbookarts, with guests Claire Mason and Matthew Walkerdine.

Free but limited places and they're going fast. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/graphic-nego…

The Book Works Summer Sale is back! 50% off all back catalogue, including 2023 titles!

bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

This Friday in the @SerpentineUK pavilion is Park Nights: Temporal Magic, an incredible line up of readings ft. Anne Boyer, Don Mee Choi, Roy Claire Potter and Denise Riley.

bookworks.org.uk/news/anne-boye…

[Image Don Mee Choi, Sky Translation from DMZ Colony, 2020 © Don Mee Choi.]

The first review of Roy Claire Potter's The Wastes is in! It's a joint one, considered alongside Heaven, a new video work by George Storm Fletcher.

Thanks to @SNYWY and Derek Horton!

soanywaymagazine.org/post/of-grit-a…

Full list of contributors:

We're really pleased to be part of @queercircle's summer programme, Gathering With Palestine, along with lots of other great orgs

Back at it again at day 2 of the Inventory art book fair @CromwellPlaceUK 💖 (if you're heading to the Palestine demo afterwards you can pick up @GBCLegal bustcards from our stall too)

We'll be at Inventory this weekend with a stall and display of our fundraising poster project What Did You Do? & on Friday 3.30pm we host a discussion on cultural organising against genocide with @ANG_Alliance, @TheWhitePube, @saeedtaji, Rachael Jarvis (@TheMosaicRooms)

Very sorry to announce that today's book launch for Roy Claire Potter's The Wastes at @Cafeoto will be postponed due to train cancellations. Apologies for any disappointment or inconvenience - we'll aim to reschedule asap.

This Sunday - launch of The Wastes, with readings, performance and conversation from Roy Claire Potter, Daniella Valz Gen, and Kieron Percy.

Sun 2 June, 2pm, Cafe Oto. Free and open to all, book a place here:
cafeoto.co.uk/events/roy-cla…

Job opportunity: Sales Assistant, 1 day/week at Book Works

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London launch for Roy Claire Potter's debut novel The Wastes, Sun 2 June, 2pm at @Cafeoto.

Roy will be joined by Kieron Percy and Daniella Valz Gen for an afternoon of performance, reading and conversation.

Free and open to all, book here:
cafeoto.co.uk/events/roy-cla…

Kicking off the Saturday of Offprint London with a reading/performance by artist/writer/medium Alice Walter, reading from her incredible debut novel The Medium.

10.45am in the McAulay Studio, Tate Modern, followed by a signing at the Book Works stall bookworks.org.uk/news/alice-wal…

see/order all the posters here bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…