A man has been working in a windowless studio to make performances which nobody sees. After the event, the sounds produced by these performances are fed into speech recognition software. This transforms them into plausible poetry
24 –25 October 2025
11am–7pm
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square
London, WC1R 4RL
It’s a busy couple of months for book fairs. Sadly we won’t be attending the New York Art Book Fair this year, but we’ll be out and about with a stall at various fairs this September and October:
“Yoel Noorali – along with all the ghost-Yoels who float through these pages – has turned the despair and alienation of modern work into a source of pure pleasure. This is the funniest, knottiest, most exhilaratingly jaded debut of the year.” – Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine and Children of Radium
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,
Stems Book Fair
Helen Marten Studio, 55 Laburnum Street, London, E2 8BD
19-20 July 2025, 11am–6pm
Free and open to all
2 July, 6:30-9pm
London Centre for Book Arts
56 Dace Road, E3 2NQ
Book Works is currently seeking a part time Finance Manger to start work from August 2025.
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). A SEASON AT THE WARBURG INSTITUTEEXHIBITION, PROGRAM OF TALKS, BOOKSHOP RESIDENCY AND BOOK … Continued
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.