The sun has arrived and our summer sale is on the way out. Move fast and you can treat yourself to an enormous range of artist books with a massive 50% off all back catalogue, including, for the first time 2023 releases from Ayo Akingbade, Hamishi Farah, Diana Georgiou, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Mahmoud Khaled, Sophia Al-Maria, Katrina Palmer and Prem Sahib. Browse the shop for half-price books by a huge range of artists, perfect for the plane, pool or park!

Other titles included in the sale range from Hamja’s Ahsan’s manifesto for introverts, Shy Radicals; Bridget Penney’s folk horror novel, Licorice; the autobiography of children’s and women’s rights activist, and communist, Nan Berger; poetry from Holly Pester; experimental novels from Stewart Home, Jarett Kobek, Iphgenia Baal, and more; our journal of art writing founded by Maria Fusco, The Happy Hypocrite; and Phyllis Christopher’s groundbreaking lesbian photography in Dark Room.

Wednesday 7 August, 6.30pm
London Centre for Book Arts, E3 2NQ
Book a free place here.

Our series of conversations with graphic designers returns with this one-off in-person event hosted by our friends at the London Centre for Book Arts, with designers Claire Mason & Matthew Walkerdine.

Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the design in a collaborative process from the start, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists’ vision.

This special in-person event launches the fourth series of talks which continues online in autumn, more details soon.

Claire Mason is a publication designer, educator and occasional writer, with a background in publishing including work with: Four Corners Books, Penguin Books, Bloomsbury and Book Works Studio. For a number of years, Claire was the in-house typographer for Penguin Books UK and as a graphic design educator has taught in the School of Design at the University of Greenwich and London College of Communication. flushleft.co.uk

Matthew Walkerdine: is a designer and co-founder of the artist led bookshop and project space Good Press (est. 2011, Glasgow) – a workers cooperative dedicated to the promotion, distribution and production of independent or self published printed matter. His work is practice-led with a particular focus in sub-underground music and fandom, community and collaboration and re-situating these in an art and design publishing context. He currently leads – The Grass is Green in the Fields for You – a publishing project which explores sound and music, its participants and its visual culture. matthewwalkerdine.com

Thursday 29 August, 2024, 7pm
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
More info/RSVP

An evening of readings, performance and audiovisual work to launch Arrhythmia, a Book Works open submission series. Roy Claire Potter and Alice Walter will reading from their debut novels, The Wastes and The Medium, joined by series editor, Katrina Palmer.

Guest-edited by artist Katrina Palmer, Arrhythmia is a new series publishing artists and writers whose work explores ideas of being out of joint with the predominant social order, whether through disrupted trajectories, physical displacement, or political dissonance. We asked for experimental work that articulates a discontinuous sense of identity, and writing, or where the combination of writing and images in which the rhythm of the text is self-consciously questioned. Four authors have been commissioned – novels by Roy Claire Potter and Alice Walter are out now and will be followed by two new titles by Andrew E. Colarusso and Kamwangi Njue in 2025.

The Wastes and The Medium are out now.