Our book of the month for June is in fact a series – three experimental works commissioned by Francesco Pedraglio as part of The Time Machine, a 2012 Book Works series. The Time Machine asks us to forget about archives and embrace the confusion of the present, in order to consciously experiment with all our … Continued
25 May–8 July 2023
Lungley Gallery
53 Great Portland Street
London, W1W 7LG
Second floor
Opening 25 May, 1–8pm (artist will be present 5–8pm)
31 May 2023, 9–9.45pm
North Cloisters, Wilkins Building
University College, London
Free, no booking required. More info.
Nina Wakeford will be giving a performance around her book, Our Pink Depot: The Gay Underground FLO-N202-236000000-TRK-MST-00002-SAY-HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE-KEN-NIE-BPS (Book Works & Art on the Underground, 2019) as part of the Blueprints of Hope: Celebrating LGBTQ+ London show in which she is also an exhibiting artist.
Burley Fisher Books
Thurs June 1, 2023, 6.30–8.30pm
Free but book a place here.
Join us for the launch of Other Reflexes, the debut novel by Diana Georgiou, published by Book Works as part of the Interstices series.
Weirdness SalonSaturday 3 June, 12.30–6pmCorbett Theatre, Hatfields, Loughton, IG10 3RY Free. Book your place here. Hamja Ahsan will be talking about his book, Shy Radicals, (now in its 5th edition) at the Weirdness Salon on 5 June. Join us to discuss weirdness as refuge, weirdness as solidarity, weirdness as a form of life that does … Continued
12–14 May 2023Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TGFree and open to all. Book Works will be back in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall on the weekend of 12–14 May 2023. We’ll be selling a wide range of new and older titles and special editions. We’ll also be joined by Rosa-Johan Uddoh who will be doing a talk … Continued
Our book of the month, with 30% off until the end of May, is Mark Dion’s Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy (2018). Recalling the short-lived Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes of 1924−1925 − part information centre and ‘public relations’ office, and part surrealist archive − Mark Dion trawled through … Continued
Book Works will be in Birmingham for the Duplicate Publishing Fair at Eastside Projects on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th May! Come and browse our new titles and all the other great artists books, zines and comics exhibitors. The fair is free to attend, more info on the Duplicate Publishing Fair website.
Frieze have included Diana Georgiou’s Other Reflexes in their What to Read This Spring feature, alongside new novels by César Aira, Han Kang and Fernanda Melchor: “Curator and writer Diana Georgiou’s debut novel is told as five interrelated stories, each connected to one of the senses. It’s the second release in Book Works’s Interstices series, … Continued
Book Works will be heading to Norway this weekend to have a stall at the 10th annual Bergen Art Book Fair! Come along and say hello and pick up a book or two. The fair runs Friday 14–Sunday 16 April. More information on the Bergen Art Book Fair website.