Books

Clunie Reid
2010
£17.95

…content and rhetoric of advertising, and often reproduced on a mirrored surface with hand-scrawled jokes and texts overlaying them, the images play on the relationship between surface and penetration, where…

Andrew E. Colarusso
2024
£14.00

…see only its black surface. On the other side it revealed a surface open and coated in gold glitter, geodic revelation. I knelt to inspect it closer, witness to a…

Roy Claire Potter
2024
£14.00

‘[Roy Claire Potter is] the writer I get the most from, am so influenced by, relate to the most, am in awe of, am surprised by, find access and pleasure…

Sophia Al-Maria
2024
£19.95

…full of food while you were away… Unlike the metaphorical fridge, you can’t just wipe a page clean. In theory, sure. Erase. Redact. But that feels like a cover up,…

Alice Walter
2024
£14.00

‘This is a story of our life, it’s about how we died and learnt to survive, by taking messages for the dead. What do they call us? Medium. The Medium.’ …

Michèle Bernstein
2021
£12.95

…decided this was a possible appointment with its author (who was deeply involved in Lettrist and Situationist activity in the 1950s and 1960s)… I didn’t know for sure Bernstein would…

Janice Kerbel
2000
Out of print

…a backdrop for Kerbel’s ‘play of subversion’. By surveying surveillance Kerbel shows how different systems are interrelated, forming a web of control. Kerbel’s aim is not simply to subvert but…

Inventory
2018
£12.00

…text that traverses the cosmological scale and the anxieties of everyday survival under latest capitalism; or, a series of fragmentary yet interconnected rants that repeat the basic banalities that everyone…

Lubaina Himid
2017
Out of print

…agreed. Hopefully the book will be enjoyed by people who want to help their friends find ways to survive and at the same time could reveal, in tandem with archive…

…Skaer lives on the Isle of Lewis. She is an artist who works with sculpture, film, print and drawing. Her work slows ideas down to abstractions and makes them concrete….

Upcycle This Book  (Special Edition 3, 2017) A special copy of Upcycle this Book, including 12 hand-coloured drawings by the artist, housed in a slipcase designed and produced by Book Works…

Virgil Tracy
1998
£9.95

By logging a description of every single item in his flat, and cross-referencing their selected histories with anecdotes concerning their purchase, significance and role in his life, Virgil Tracy has…

Upcycle This Book  (Special Edition 2, 2017) A special signed copy of Upcycle this Book with a hand-coloured print of a Unit-type drawing by the artist 190mm x 130mm (print size) Edition…

Deborah Levy
1997
£6.95

Referencing Freud, psychoanalysis, Jean-Martin Charcot, the English pride in madness and the herd mentality, Deborah Levy’s Diary of a Steak, is a witty take on the hysteria surrounding ‘Mad Cow…

Cecilia Vicuña
2024
£28.00

…new, expanded facsimile edition remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance. Engaging obliquely with the legacies of surrealism, contemporaneous…

OOMK
2018
Out of print

…to assert the continued importance of libraries via interviews with London-based library enthusiasts, a profile of the revolutionary Cuban librarian Marta Terry González, a re-assessment of The Five Laws of…

The Alternative School of Economics (Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck)
2024
£40.00 + VAT

When we are silent we are still afraid is a phrase from ‘A Litany for Survival’, a poem by American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde.  The image has been commissioned by Book…

Chris Newman
1990
Out of print

…book page. The work has an elusive quality that may surprise the reader by its refusal to be classified or tamed. If the books can appear to be a series…

Yoel Noorali
2025
£12.00 (Reduced from £15.00)

…stupid idea pursued to its natural, relatable conclusion, which is what most great literature does, I think.” Zac Smith, author of Everything Is Totally Fine In a surreal and hilarious…

Bouchra Khalili
2019
£25.00

…in The Tempest Society. Bouchra Khalili is a Moroccan-French visual artist. Raised between Morocco and France, she studied Film at Sorbonne Nouvelle and Fine Arts at École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts…

Nils Norman
2000
Out of print

…devices incluing surface studs, crowd control barriers etc., that are created in order to control the ever increasing privatised space of inner cities. This development is linked to a new…

Bridget Penney
2008
£9.95

…the line between what might have happened and what is merely imagined. Mapped onto this web of memory and imagination are Roland and Julie, the survivors of a king’s unsuccessful…

…a series of drawings and paraphrased stories, extracted from Turkish newspapers from the last four decades. The news stories are sometimes poetic, sometimes overtly political, and sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated…

Jennifer Gabrys
2004
£6.50

The far distance between sky and ground gives way to a space full of anxiety and conjecture. Supplies and leaflets scattered from the upper altitudes arrive inexplicably, as heavenly debris,…

This publication developed out of a work produced for the Protest & Survive exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, which involved the construction of a bridge between the gallery cafe and…

Bridget Penney
2015
£9.95

…the line between what might have happened and what is merely imagined. Mapped onto this web of memory and imagination are Roland and Julie, the survivors of a king’s unsuccessful…

…relate to the most, am in awe of, am surprised by, find access and pleasure in writing because their work exists. Everyone read this’, as ‘book of the year’ by…

Helen Cammock
2017
£25.00

…contradictions are numerous, and radical political activists and thinkers smatter the history of Hull leaving legacies that are often hard to understand and acknowledge. Cammock has brought together some of the voices…

Gavin Wade
2017
Out of print

…texts and artworks, and responding to existing conditions. ‘Upcycle this book. Rewrite it as a manifesto. Steal and take and copy and change this book. Upcycle these twenty-six texts just…

Ahmet Öğüt
2007
£9.95

…news stories are sometimes poetic, sometimes overtly political, and sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and…

Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair
2012
£14.95

In a series of commentaries, short essays, documentary material and images drawn from the Swedenborg Society Archive, Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling reconstruct and reflect on the extraordinary events surrounding…

Maria Fusco
2015
£20.00

…Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee. Her work is protean in nature, characterised by critical attention to intersectional socio-economic circumstances through an experimental lens. Working across performance and theoretical…

A man and a woman begin the project of building an isolated, self-sustainable farm, cut off from civilisation. Against all expectations the first thing they have to confront is the…

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert
2025
£32.00 (Reduced from £35.00)

…Recent solo exhibitions include Moderna Museet, Malmö (2023); Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2022); The Hunterian, Glasgow (2021); La Synagogue De Delme, France (2016); Museum M, Leuven (2017); Power Plant,…

Stuart Brisley
2003
£5.48 (Reduced from £10.95)

‘Dirt is universal, a-historical even. Homogeneity at ground level, mediated by the universal glue of sputum and excreta. Differentiated at the surface by the droppings of local and global consumption,…

…on each available side. The outer case has a black leather base and the upper part is made using a heat sensitive paper allowing the users hands to appear on…

…and paper with a specially made stainless steel edging surrounding the outer walls. The stainless steel is engraved with the title of the project. Foil blocked folders hold the contents….

…drawn designs was used in the form of leather onlays onto the front and back covers of the calfskin binding. Some of the onlays are flat to the surface and…

Letterpress printed onto Zerkall mouldmade paper. The cover was created from coating the surface of a handmade paper from Bhutan and blind debossing the title.

Various letterpress printed frontispieces for print editions or presentations, showing the characteristic impression into the surface of the paper. The work featured includes Anish Kapoor, Janice Kerbel, Royal Academy of…

Archive Items

Katrina Palmer
2014
10 items

…Cardiff. His approach to making artwork is varied, and includes writing, performance, printmaking and installations. He has recently presented work with Book Works, the Whitstable Biennale, Spike Island and Arnolfini. O,…

2017
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art and language, and a celebration of the challenges that artists can make to the status quo. For this…

Curated by Book Works
2011
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Leaflet produced for the fourth part of the touring exhibition Again, A Time Machine. Material from Book Works Archive: Performance images and archival printed material from Smash This Puny Existence…

Mark Dion
2011
1 leaf (recto)

Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy produced by Mark Dion in response to an invitation from Book Works to participate in the commission Make…

2017
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art and language, and a celebration of the challenges that artists can make to the status quo. For this…

…the visual and social context to explore and research the relationships of community, trade, survival and exclusion, or to provide a backdrop for paintings, whose messages extend out into the…

Laure Prouvost
2011
3 leaves (recto)

This Exhibit in the passed only, It was 15 years later it all happened, This will survive the future produced by Laure Prouvost in response to an invitation from Book…

News

…hand-scrawled jokes and texts overlaying them, the images play on the relationship between surface and penetration, where distorted images, words and text shatter the reflection of the mirrored surface. In…

…in 1996. I pass the Ledra Palace Hotel, a huge, deluxe building by Benjamin Günsberg in 1949 and caught between Lefkoşa and Lefkosia twenty-five years later. The whole stretch is…

News/Events
2014

…works in Cardiff. His approach to making artwork is varied, and includes writing, performance, printmaking and installations. He has recently presented work with Book Works, the Whitstable Biennale, Spike Island…

…our house, seeing them coated with blankets, surrounded by border police, ambulances, rescue workers, a different level opens up. The power of what I was seeing in these huddled images…

…can see the world and our place it in anew. It is no surprise, then, that through his signature gleaming surfaces, distorted voices, icy minimalist textures, games of light and…

Surrealism and its Legacies at the Manchester Museum, resulting in an installation and the publication Bureau for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy. Mark said of his collaboration with…

…sample writings, sound and music kindly contributed by Bob Lewis, Katrina Palmer, Ingrid Plum, and Timothy Thornton. Presented with Lizzie Homersham on Montez Press Radio, 24 August 2019: https://soundcloud.com/book-works/interstices-w-bridget-penney-and-lizzi… Selection Commissioned…

…that surveys this current moment in the expanded publishing landscape, running 7-9 June 2024 Constituting a book market, reading room and programme of events, Inventory will foreground interdisciplinary, collaborative and…

…for the rest of the month. Published in 2015, A Lebanese Archive is based on a collection of archival photographs from Lebanon and the Middle East, which came into the…

…History… presents an interplay of voices, legacies, friendships and influences that make up an art practice. Conceived from a period of collaboration between the artist, curator and writer Rike Frank,…

…is the funniest, knottiest, most exhilaratingly jaded debut of the year.” – Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine and Children of Radium We’re excited to be publishing the first title in…

News/Events
2020

…TATHAM AND TOM O’SULLIVAN BUREAU OF THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SURREALISM AND ITS LEGACY – MARK DION EVEN THE DEAD RISE UP – FRANCIS MCKEE GO TO RECEPTION AND ASK…

surprised each time he says that his ear is still bothering him. Why do I forget in-between? Is it just this simple thing: it’s not happening to me? I hear…

…on a miserable and unreliable commuter train across the Pennines from Liverpool to Hull, is also central to the narrative of The Wastes. The journeyings it recounts are both purposeful…

News/Events
2024

…new and backlist titles all at discounted prices for the fair! More info on the stallholders and programme of talks and workshops, including our Artist’s Surgeries, via the Fruitmarket website….

…to book artists about their work and buy works of art. We’ll have a stall, and will also be doing some free artist’s surgeries at the fair – contact BABE…

…own life, various films and other people’s books into The Night.’ Purple Diary 29 July, 2013 ‘Michèle Bernstein, the foremost female protagonist of the Situationist movement – and Guy Debord’s…

…care and youth offending teams, as well as people that use those services, to collaborate on a conversation that focuses on how we survive, endure, overcome, fight back and reach…

…remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance. Engaging obliquely with the legacies of surrealism, contemporaneous experiments in concrete poetry and the…

…and a letter from a London legal firm on behalf of their client seeking to colonise or reappropriate the physical body of Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli. The work in…

Pages

…marketing and distribution. These are not opportunities to pitch projects to us, but for us to lend our experience and aid people in the development of their projects. These surgeries…

…Safeguarding Every charitable organisation has a duty to protect the people they work with and those they are trying to help from any form of harm, especially children, young people,

…people to turn the sheet to prevent damaging the page. The book was casebound in a canvas cloth with a screen printed title and a title page introducing the work….