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.
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.
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
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