Join Alice Walter, Book Works and Senate House Special Collections on 12 October 2024, 4–6pm, at the Special Collections Reading Room, Senate House Library, University of London, to launch Alice Walter’s debut novel, The Medium.
As part of our series of conversations with designers, Graphic Negotiations, we were delighted to welcome graphic designer, artist, founder of Takweer and author of The Queer Arab Glossary, Marwan Kaabour for a chat on Zoom. Below is a full verbatim transcript.
Friday 13 September 2024, 5pm. Index Art Book FairCalle Buccari 3, S.Elena, Venice, ItalyFree & open to all Book Works’ Director Gavin Everall will be part of an event at the Index Art Book Fair in Venice this week alongside a member of the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) who have been campaigning against the … Continued
Roy Claire Potter’s debut novel, The Wastes, is reviewed by Lauren Velvick in the September issue of Art Monthly. It’s rare and welcome for reviewers to consider the book as a whole object in this way – thanks to Lauren and Art Monthly for this comprehensive reading, and shout out to Traven T. Croves for … Continued
Our Book of the Month, with 30% off throughout September 2024, is The Council of Spent by Inventory.
Capitalism continues to disempower us, with its corrosive mantra that it provides the best of all possible worlds
Thursday 22 August, 2024, 8pm
National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
Tickets/more info.
Delve into the life and work of the pioneering Jamaican feminist activist, poet, writer and first Black BBC producer
Thursday 22 August, 2024, 6.30pm
Artwords Bookshop
2-4 Clarence Road, London E5 8HB
Free but RSVP.
A writer, an archivist and a painter set out on foot to explore the landscape of Britain. Eschewing the heritage trail they walk the streets of Dalston and Stoke Newington, the cemetery in Ilford, and through Manningham, journeying after the Muslim vernacular across the landscape − mapping Asian history, culture and ruins in Britain.
Thursday 29 August, 2024, 7pm
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
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3:am Magazine have published an expansive conversation between Diana Georgiou and Bridget Penney, on Other Reflexes. Other Reflexes is Georgiou’s first novel, commissioned by Bridget Penney for the Interstices open call series.