HALF-PRICE SALE NOW ON

The Book Works Winter Sale is back! For a limited time we’re offering 50% off all titles published before 2023, with prices starting from just 50p!

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Job Opportunity: Editor, Book Works (part-time)

Book Works seeks an experienced new editor to work with the publishing team on our programme of artists’ book commissions.

Editor, Book Works (3 days per week)
Salary: £35,000 (pro-rata £21,000 ) per annum
Permanent Contract, probation period 8 weeks
Location: Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London, EC2A 4JB

Application deadline: 22 November, 5pm

Interviews: 6-12 December, at Book Works or online by arrangement

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Prem Sahib and Sita Balani in conversation

8 November 2023, 6.45pm
Phillida Reid, Grape Street
Free and open to all.
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This talk takes place on the occasion of Sahib’s solo exhibition The Life Cycle of a Flea, now extended until Saturday 11 November. Sita Balani is a contributor to Sahib’s new book, That Fire Over There.

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Frieze week and beyond – current artist shows

A new solo show by Prem Sahib, The Life Cycle of a Flea, opened last week at Phillida Reid, Grape Street. The exhibition revolves around two central figures, the Child and the Flea, implicating them in questions around growth, extraction, contamination and existence within systems of control. It includes new sculpture, painting, installation, light and … Continued

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PAST EVENT

Graphic Negotiations #9 – Maeve Redmond

18 October 2023
Online
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Book Works sees graphic design as central to the production of artist books. Graphic Negotiations is our series of online lunchtime talks with designers, launched in 2022. For this ninth event in the series we are delighted to welcome Maeve Redmond.

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Book of the Month: Helen Cammock – Moveable Bridge

Our “book” of the month, with 30% off during October, is Helen Cammock’s Moveable Bridge – a 12″ vinyl album of spoken word and song and artist publication in a gatefold sleeve commissioned as part of Beyond Words. Poverty, politics and survival have been a part of the story of Hull as much as wars, … Continued

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