EVENT
Dark Room/Printed Matter event now online
Our Printed Matter Classroom event with Phyllis Christopher, Laura Guy, Lizzie Homersham and Michelle Tea is now available to watch back.
News
Dark Room Kickstarter campaign launch
We are very excited to be launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of Phyllis Christopher’s Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003. Dark Room will bring together for the first time a rare collection of lesbian erotic and protest photographs, taken by Phyllis Christopher…
The Queer History of the Northern Line
The London Transport Museum has published an overview of Nina Wakeford’s OUR PINK DEPOT THE GAY UNDERGROUND FLO-N202-236000000- TRK-MST-00002-SAY- HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE- KEN-NIE-BPS, which we co-published with Art on the Underground in 2019
PAST EVENT
Dark Room: online event with Phyllis Christopher, Michelle Tea & Laura Guy
At the 2021 Printed Matter Virtual Book Fair, Book Works will present an online event to present Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest 1988-2003 – the first ever collection of Phyllis Christopher’s trailblazing photography of lesbian erotic life and political struggle.
Guitar! in The White Review‘s Books of the Year 2020
Kate Briggs selected Sarah Tripp’s Guitar! as her book of 2020 in The White Review’s end of year round up.
New Stuart Brisley book and London show
The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and its Afterlives is now available to pre-order. This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focused entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him.
Interstices Open Call – New Commissions
In February 2020, Book Works published a new novel, Licorice, by Bridget Penney, as the first book in the Interstices series.
The Self-Illuminating Pen– new work by Sarah Tripp
The Self-Illuminating Pen, published by MAP magazine, is a companion piece to Guitar! (forthcoming from Book Works).
Bank Holiday Flash Sale!
50% DISCOUNT ON BESTSELLERS ALL WEEKEND! There are no bailouts for the book industry so far, so we’ve taken matters into our own hands and beefed up our August sale for the bank holiday weekend. It’s a rare opportunity to pick up some of our bestselling titles at a bargain price. Read them up, down, … Continued
Book Works Presents
An occasional series of online readings, performances and more from Book Works artists and authors in isolation in April 2020, with Bridget Penney, Stephen Sutcliffe, Hamishi Farah, Stewart Home, Isable Waidner, Clunie Reid, and Marcus Coates.