Summoning the spirit of John Ball, Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, Ruth Ewan invited 200 teenagers from east London to take over The Savoy’s Lancaster Ballroom for an ambitious event
10 June 2025, 7pm
London Review Bookshop
10 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
More info/book
Friday 6 June, 2025, 3.30pm
Belfast Book Festival
Crescent Arts Centre
2-4 University Road
Belfast, Northern Ireland
BT7 1NH
Pay what you like. More info/booking.
This is an open call for submissions of original works on the theme of Satires, selected by guest editor Holly Pester. Two entries will be selected for publication, and the selected submissions will take the form of a short book (maximum 40,000 words, or an equivalent suitable to the form if not prose).
Our book of the month, with 30% off for the whole of April, is You are of Vital Importance by Sarah Tripp. You Are of Vital Importance is a group of 62 pieces of prose fiction marked by preoccupations with character, professional personas, conversational knots and the social economies of art making. A variety of … Continued
A great, short, astute review of Roy Claire Potter’s The Wastes by Phoebe Thomas in STAT Magazine, an arts and culture zine for the North West of England.
Our book of the month for March 2025 is Why and Why Not by Mark Titchner (2004).
Get it now for just £7.
The Book Works Studio has a new boxmaking evening class starting on 3 March, at our studio and office in Shoreditch. The classes are from 6.30–9pm on Mondays and run for 6 weeks, during which time you’ll learn to make beautiful bespoke two-part and clamshell boxes.
Following our half-price winter mega-sale, we are keeping the offers coming in February with 10% off all special edition prints and books. All funds raised from sales are invested back into our programme supporting new work by emerging artists and practitioners, so you can treat yourself to a bargain while knowing you’re supporting our work. … Continued
I Know Where I’m Going: A Guide to Morecambe and Heysham by Michael Bracewell and Linder is our Book of The Month for February 2025!
A Linder retrospective, Danger Came Smiling, is open at the Hayward Gallery from 11 February–5 May 2025.