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.
“For all Battles‘ formal experimentations with interview-style Q&As, voice-overs, scripts, sonnets and medical records, Pedraglio is a consistently excellent storyteller. Avenues of possibility for future narrations of historical events, approaches to archives, and models of relationships between the terller and listener open up when considering the methodological approaches in Battles. The insistence on the generative … Continued
‘If Pop Art is about liking things, as Andy Warhol said, then folk art is about loving things’ – Jeremy Deller
Our April Book of the Month, with 30% off, is Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from Around the UK. First published in 2005 and now in its third edition, Folk Archive is a book about the creative life of Britain
The Book Works Spring Sale is now on! Get 50% off a huge range of our available backlist titles for all of March. Featuring titles from Stuart Brisley, Helen Cammock, Brian Catling & Iain Sinclair, Ruth Ewan, Luca Frei, Maria Fusco, Liam Gillick, Stewart Home, Susan Hiller, Bouchra Khalili, Jarett Kobek, Ahmet Ögüt, Katrina Palmer, … Continued
4 March 2023
Reuben Library, British Film Institute
Tickets £5. Book here.
Hamja Ahsan will be in conversation at the BFI on 3 March for screening of the Shy Radicals film, directed by Tom Dream and produced by Black Dog Films. The event is part of the Busting the Bias season on disability and film.