The Wastes reviewed in STAT Magazine
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.
News
March Book of the Month – Why and Why Not by Mark Titchner
Our book of the month for March 2025 is Why and Why Not by Mark Titchner (2004).
Get it now for just £7.
New boxmaking evening class starts 3 March
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.
Special Edition Sale
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
Book of the Month: I Know Where I’m Going by Michael Bracewell and Linder
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.
The half-price winter sale is still on
Our Winter Sale continues with 50% off our entire back catalogue (everything published before 2024), including some rare and never to be reprinted editions. Prices start from just 50p and all proceeds from sales go straight back into our programme so it’s a great way to support our work and get some radical and experimental artists’ books at the same time.
Saborami a Burley Fisher Book of 2024
This is really three books in one, an unfolding jack-in-the-box magic that conveys the impish spirit and three-dimensional practice of multimedia artist Cecilia Vicuña.
Turn it one way, and Saborami is a fascinating insight into a 1970s UK counterculture of kitchen-table publishing, radical exhibition spaces and internationalist protests, of which Vicuña became a key part when she found herself in exile from Chile after the Western-backed 1973 coup
Book Works Winter Sale is now on!
The Book Works Winter Sale is back for December 2024! For a limited time we’re offering 50% off all titles published before 2024, with prices starting from just 50p! The titles included in the sale range from Phyllis Christopher’s groundbreaking lesbian photography in Dark Room; experimental writing by Diana Georgiou, Sophie Collins, Holly Pester, and … Continued
Bound Art Book Fair
30 November–1 December
Saturday 11am–5pm, Sunday 10am–4.30pm
The Whitworth Art Gallery
Oxford Rd, Manchester, M15 6ER
Amy Ching-Yan Lam – Property Journal –UK tour
30 November 2024, 7–11pm,
Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London, WC2R 3DA
4 December 2024, 6.30–8.30pm
Good Press, 32 St. Andrews St, Glasgow G1 5PD