Job opportunity: Sales Assistant, Book Works

Sales Assistant, Book Works (1 day per week)
Salary: £30,000 (pro-rata £6,000 per annum)
Permanent contract (probation period 8 weeks)
Location: Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London, EC2A 4JB (please note this is not a remote role).

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What Did You Do… featured in The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper has published a feature by Henry Broome on our poster project for Palestine, What Did You Do….(2024), raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. The series now features 17 posters, including recent additions by: Prem Sahib; Joanna Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan; and Marcus Coates. Read the full article at The Art Newspaper, … Continued

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PAST EVENT

Queer Utopias at Wysing

Saturday 18 May 2024, 2–10pmWysing Arts CentreMore info/book On 18th May we’ll be back at Wysing Arts Centre for Queer Utopias, their one-day festival of queer arts culture. We’ll be tabling as part of the zine fair, and the programme also features talks, performances, workshops, art, tarot, nails, music, football and more.

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Offprint London, 17–19 May 2024

17–19 May 2024Turbine Hall, Tate ModernBankside, London SE1 9TGFull programme/more info We’ll be back in the Turbine Hall on 17–19 May for Offprint London’s fair of independent arts publishers. We’ll be there with new titles including Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami, the two new Arrhythmia novels and posters from our What Did You Do….. fundraising series (all … Continued

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Book Works Studio annouces new Co-Director

Book Works is delighted to announce that Jan Burgess has been appointed Co-Director of the Studio. Jan Burgess joined Book Works in 2003 and has made an invaluable contribution to the Studio as a book-binder and Studio Manager. She takes up her position alongside Rob Hadrill, who founded the organisation in 1984. Book Works’ board … Continued

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May Book of the Month: Ice Blink

May’s book of the month is Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay by Simon Faithfull. Get it with 30% off all month. Traveling to Antarctica on RSS Ernest Shackleton from RAF Brize Norton via Ascension Island and the Falklands, Simon Faithfull recorded the displaced and disorienting world he encountered by filming the view out of his … Continued

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