🌴 SUMMER SALE 🌴

The Book Works Summer Sale is back again, with 50% off almost all of our back catalogue!

All books published before 2024 (and a couple of second editions published since) are half-price, including recent titles by Sophia Al-Maria, Ayo Akingbade, Hamishi Farah, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Mahmoud Khaled, Katrina Palmer and Prem Sahib.

There’s also classic Book Works titles going back to the 1990s from the likes of Brian Catling, Susan Hiller, Deborah Levy, Linder, Liam Gillick, Elizabeth Price, Mark Titchner and many more, the Stewart Home edited Semina series, back issues of The Happy Hypocrite.

Lots of titles are under £5 in the sale, and most of these are unlikely to be reprinted when they sell out so grab yourself a rare bargain.

Browse the full sale here.

ABOUT US

Book Works is a leading contemporary arts organisation with a unique role as makers and publishers of books.

Established in 1984, we are dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects. Book Works consists of a publishing and commissioning department; and a studio specialising in binding, box-making and multiples.

STUDIO

The Book Works Studio offers a specialist bespoke service for a range of clients, from artists, designers, galleries, and businesses. We provide binding solutions, develop prototypes and specialise in unique book artworks, boxes, and portfolios. We have an extensive archive, and offer tailored educational events, and bookbinding courses. The Studio generates income from clients and is self-sufficient.

PUBLISHING

Book Works Publishing is dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects and include publishing, a lecture and seminar programme, exhibitions, the development of an online archive, and artists’ surgeries and workshops.

Our audience is vital to our work. The process of engaging and developing our audience is initiated with our commissioning programme, and driven through all aspects of our activities, particularly our public programme of events, our workshops, artists’ surgeries and education activities, and through our interest in collaborating with other organisations and libraries. Our programme of commissions is diverse, and reflects our commitment not just to work with cultural workers from all backgrounds, but to invest in networks and programmes that engage, and develop and create new artistic voices.

Recent Commissions

Includes new projects with: Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Sofia Niazi, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert, Prem Sahib, and Cecilia Vicuña. Our recent Open Submission is Arrhythmia, guest edited by Katrina Palmer, has commissioned new work from Andrew Colarusso, Roy Claire Potter, Kamwangi Njue, and Alice Walter. Katrina Palmer is also the author of The Touch Report, released December 2024.

SUPPORT US

By supporting Book Works you will help support artists and writers at the emerging stage of their careers through our diverse commissioning programme of open submissions, guest editorships, public events, exhibitions and publications.

CHARITY

Book Works is a registered charity, dedicated to advance education for the benefit of the public in the visual arts, particularly books which may be recognised as works of art in their own right.

TRUSTEES

We have a board of trustees who input their range of diverse expertise and interests into our development:

Tess Denman-Cleaver (Chair)
Maria Amidu
Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso
Aliya Gulamani
Gerrie van Noord

Book Works

19 Holywell Row

London EC2A 4JB

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