Other Reflexes in Frieze‘s Spring book picks

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

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Book Works at Bergen Art Book Fair

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.

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Battles Vol. 1 reviewed in Art Monthly

“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

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April Book of the Month – Folk Archive

‘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

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Spring Sale

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

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Shy Radicals screening and conversation at the BFI

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.

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Katrina Palmer gallery late with Bo Ningen and Arrhythmia authors

Wednesday 8 March, 6.30pm
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
Free, no booking required. More info.

As part of the public programme around Katrina Palmer’s new exhibition, What’s Already Going On?, Mead Gallery is hosting a late event with music from Bo Ningen and readings from the Arrythmia authors.

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January Book of the Month: Make Everything New

Our Book of the Month for January, with 30% off all month, is Make Everything New – A Project on Communism edited by Grant Watson, Gerrie Van Noord and Gavin Everall (Book Works, 2006).

Communism is routinely defined as defeated and its conquest the subject of regular celebration. Caught in the disappointment and negative connotations of the past, it has become all but unthinkable. 

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