Kathryn Scanlan at the LRB Bookshop
10 June 2025, 7pm
London Review Bookshop
10 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
More info/book
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Kathryn Scanlan at Belfast Book Festival
Friday 6 June, 2025, 3.30pm
Belfast Book Festival
Crescent Arts Centre
2-4 University Road
Belfast, Northern Ireland
BT7 1NH
Pay what you like. More info/booking.
New open call series – Satirical Strains, guest edited by Holly Pester
This is an open call for submissions of original works on the theme of Satires, selected by guest editor Holly Pester. Two entries will be selected for publication, and the selected submissions will take the form of a short book (maximum 40,000 words, or an equivalent suitable to the form if not prose).
April Book of the Month: You are of Vital Importance by Sarah Tripp
Our book of the month, with 30% off for the whole of April, is You are of Vital Importance by Sarah Tripp. You Are of Vital Importance is a group of 62 pieces of prose fiction marked by preoccupations with character, professional personas, conversational knots and the social economies of art making. A variety of … Continued
The Wastes reviewed in STAT Magazine
A great, short, astute review of Roy Claire Potter’s The Wastes by Phoebe Thomas in STAT Magazine, an arts and culture zine for the North West of England.
March Book of the Month – Why and Why Not by Mark Titchner
Our book of the month for March 2025 is Why and Why Not by Mark Titchner (2004).
Get it now for just £7.
New boxmaking evening class starts 3 March
The Book Works Studio has a new boxmaking evening class starting on 3 March, at our studio and office in Shoreditch. The classes are from 6.30–9pm on Mondays and run for 6 weeks, during which time you’ll learn to make beautiful bespoke two-part and clamshell boxes.
Special Edition Sale
Following our half-price winter mega-sale, we are keeping the offers coming in February with 10% off all special edition prints and books. All funds raised from sales are invested back into our programme supporting new work by emerging artists and practitioners, so you can treat yourself to a bargain while knowing you’re supporting our work. … Continued
Book of the Month: I Know Where I’m Going by Michael Bracewell and Linder
I Know Where I’m Going: A Guide to Morecambe and Heysham by Michael Bracewell and Linder is our Book of The Month for February 2025!
A Linder retrospective, Danger Came Smiling, is open at the Hayward Gallery from 11 February–5 May 2025.
The half-price winter sale is still on
Our Winter Sale continues with 50% off our entire back catalogue (everything published before 2024), including some rare and never to be reprinted editions. Prices start from just 50p and all proceeds from sales go straight back into our programme so it’s a great way to support our work and get some radical and experimental artists’ books at the same time.