Tuesday 3 November, 6.30pm Please join us for the Glasgow launch of Bad Omens by Luke Roberts. Drawn from a decade’s worth of notebooks and journals, Bad Omens is a lyrical narrative of art and grief in a time of crisis. From London’s pollen-covered streets to wildfires in Idaho, gravesides in Paris to the Blackpool … Continued
Wednesday 11 November, 2026, 7–9 pmSmall Press Futures BookshopUnit AG1 Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST Join us on the 11th November to celebrate the launch of DUMMY, a new literary journal dedicated to the difficult, the obscure and the overlooked. Published by Book Works, guest edited by Rachael Allen and Josie Mitchell, and designed by … Continued
Sunday 25 October 2026, 9pmOnline, free. Link posted on the Crisis Crystal instagram on the day . Robyn Skyrme will host a special launch edition of the Crisis Crystal online reading series on 25 October 2026 to launch his debut novel, Old Owl and Matt. Robyn will be joined by Imogen Cassels, Ellen Dillon and … Continued
Tuesday, 3 November, 6-8.30 pmProposition279 Cambridge Heath Road,Reception Entrance on Cambridge Heath Road to the left of the big Proposition Sign,London, E2 0ELNearest station, Bethnal Green The event is free, but we are accepting donations for The Sameer Project. Please RSVP here. Join us for a discussion on international cultural resistance, the legacy of the … Continued
We are thrilled to announce we will be publishing, Blue Sunset, the debut novel from Denise Rose Hansen, next year. It’s first published in the US this month in the US by The Dorothy Project, and Book Works will publish a UK edition in March 2027, which you can preorder now. You can also read … Continued
The Book Works Summer Sale is now live, with up to 50% off a huge range of titles (most of the list is half-price!) Titles by Sophia Al-Maria, Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Phyllis Christopher, Marcus Coates, Mark Dion, Rosalind Nashashibi, Katrina Palmer, Bridget Penney, Olivia Plender, Prem Sahib, Slavs & Tatars, Stephen Sutcliffe, Fiona Tan, Mark … Continued
8 July 2026, 6.30pm192 Books, 192 10th Ave, New York, NY 10011Free but please register here. Following a series of events in London to celebrate the publication of Robert Frost, Stacy Skolnik has curated a poetry reading in NYC with the extraordinary poets and artists, Courtney Bush, Rob Fitterman, Shanzhai Lyric, and Otis Houston Jr., … Continued
Bad Omens by Luke Roberts is out now and he will be out and about reading and in conversation to launch the book this month. On 2 July he’ll be in conversation with Holly Pester at the London Review Bookshop to launch her new collection, Cafés (Fitzcarraldo, 2026). Tickets. Then on 7 July at Pages … Continued
Friday 5 June, 5pm
Ely House, 37 Dover Street, London W1S 4NJ
Free, RSVP to [email protected]
14-17 June 2026
Stacy Skolnik is coming to the UK in June for a series of London events with poets and writers celebrating the launch of Robert Frost, published in our New Writing Series.