Category: News

🌦 Book Works Summer Sale 🌦

It may not have been much of a summer so far but that’s all the more reason to pick up a book in our Summer Sale! Whether you’re sunning on a beach or shivering under a blanket, treat yourself to some artist books with a massive 50% off all back catalogue, including our 2023 releases. … Continued

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EVENT

Saturday 13th June, 11am–6pm
Cafe Oto, Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL
Free

We’ll be back at Cafe Oto this Saturday with a table at their special summer edition of the winter fair, along with a load of other great publishers/labels. Full list below.

Another Subculture
Bezirk
Bison
Books Peckham

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PAST EVENT

Queercircle summer programme – Gathering With Palestine

We are very happy to have been asked to contribute to Queercircle’s Gathering with Palestine programme this summer, alongside over 15 other organisations and collectives. We’ll be presenting our fundraising poster project, What Did You Do?..(2024) at the programme launch on 26th June, and they’ll remain on display/sale in the library through the summer.

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First review of Roy Claire Potter’s The Wastes

Travel, sometimes walking, briefly on a bus, but mostly a journey on a miserable and unreliable commuter train across the Pennines from Liverpool to Hull, is also central to the narrative of The Wastes. The journeyings it recounts are both purposeful and aimless.

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Tess Denman-Cleaver joins Book Works as a trustee

We are delighted to welcome a new trustee to the Book Works board, Tess Denman-Cleaver. Tess is Senior Programme Manager (Young People & Communities) at New Writing North. She previously worked as a freelance programmer and artist, as well as producer for the Women Artists of the North East Library and Producer (Artists’ Moving Image) … Continued

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