Kathryn Scanlan UK tour
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Kathryn Scanlan is coming to the UK in June to launch Aug 9 – Fog, which we are publishing here for the first time.
First, on 6 June, Kathryn will be speaking at the Belfast Book Festival alongside Wendy Erskine, chaired by the Stinging Fly editor, Declan Meade. Tickets are pay what you like and can be booked here.
Wednesday 11 June we’re off to Cambridge for an evening of readings hosted and curated by Bhanu Kapil. Kathryn will read alongside Jigisha Bhattacharya and Idil Tekin. Free and open to all. Full details here.
Then if you missed out on tickets for the LRB shop, fear not, there is a second London date at Foyles Charing Cross Road on 12 June where Kathryn will be in conversation with Holly Pester! More info and tickets here.
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June Book of the Month – Sad Sack by Sophia Al-Maria
Still there are seeds to be gathered, and room in the bag of stars.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Our book of the month for June 2025 is Sophia Al-Maria’s Sad Sack. Order it with 30% off until the end of June.
Sad Sack is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic.’ Encompassing more than a decade of work, Sad Sack tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her ‘premature’ memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry.
Second, expanded edition with lilac pages and new additions – Tarax’sup Meditation, Taraxos Praxis, Dear Farah, The Law of the Father, Black Friday, Dear Angel, @Sxfyxbot, The Untold (Tale of Mx Muffin), and Dearests.’
Sophia Al-Maria is a London-based artist, writer and film-maker. Al-Maria has had recent solo exhibitions at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; LUMA Arles; Tate Britain, London, and numerous others. She is the author of three books: Sad Sack (Book Works, London, 2019 & 2023), Virgin with a Memory (Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 2014), and The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Harper Perennial, New York, 2012).
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Biblioteka book fair at The Warburg Institute , 20-21 June
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Book Works will have a stall at the inaugural Biblioteka book fair at The Warburg Institute on 20-21 June 2025.
Part of the Art & the Book season curated by Arnaud Desjardin (The Everyday Press aka Bunker Basement) and Hlib Velyhorskyi (Biblioteka), consisting of an exhibition, program of talks, a bookshop residency and the book fair.
Open Tuesdays to Fridays 10am–6pm and Saturdays 10am–5pm.
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