Books

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…

…Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was produced on account of the Kickstarter campaign for Upcycle This Book by Gavin…

…Upcycle This Book by Gavin Wade (2017), co-published by Book Works and Stroom den Haag. About the work: Upcycle this Book consists of twenty-six chapters, twelve constructivist drawings using the alphabet…

Book Club events with Book Works’ artists and designers. The Book Club will include special talks, studio visits, and readings, which will provide an insight into the work by Book…

Liam Gillick
2009
£375.00

…Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition of All Books by Liam Gillick was published on occasion of Book Works’ 25th Anniversary….

Laure Prouvost
2013
Out of print

…edition of The Artist Book bound in cloth and housed in a slipcase, produced by Book Works Studio. Book size, 160 x 235 mm, designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio, image…

Freedom Kangas (Special Edition Book, 2017) Special edition handbound book, housed in a dark blue slipcase, both designed and produced by Book Works Studio 360mm x 515mm Edition of 30…

Laure Prouvost
2013
Out of print

…Prouvost has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2013. The Artist Book is published by Book Works; edition of 1,000 copies; b/w and colour; 296pp; designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio;…

Samuel Hasler
2014
£9.00

…few pages to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, “There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation…

…emerging artists. If you are a regular reader of Book Works books, new to our publications and wanting to build a library of artists books or keep up to date…

Katrina Palmer
2015
£185.00

…Quarryman’s Daughters; a site specific installation, The Loss Adjusters; and the book, End Matter, co-published by Book Works and Artangel. About the work: Designed by James Langdon and produced by…

Laure Prouvost
2019
£300.00 + VAT

…Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This print has been generously donated by Artist Patron Laure Prouvost as part of Book Works 35th anniversary…

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…

…your name will be added to the Book Works’ website and in our annual report and catalogue. – Join our mailing list and receive invitations to Book Works’ private views…

curated by Jane Rolo and Camilla Wills
2014
Out of print

Published to accompany the exhibition Dear Reader at Idea Store Whitechapel, 14 March – 11 May 2014. The exhibition consisted of new and existing works by eleven artists Book Works…

Gad Hollander & Andrew Bick
1998
£55.00

The Palaver (Special Edition, 1998) Book and CD in a slipcase handmade by Book Works Studio 140 x 160mm Standard Price £55 (inc VAT) Supporters price* £44.50 *Please note that…

Kit Poulson
2018
£12.00

Imagine an object sitting on the table. It is oblong, and roughly book sized; it weighs about the same as a book. It would certainly sit easily on a shelf….

…Works via the Readers Club and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition was co-published by Book Works and Steidl, on occasion of…

…Supporters price is available to those who support Book Works via the Readers Club and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition…

Angela Bulloch
2000
Out of print

Rule Book is an extensive collection of guides, instructions, manuals and rules that have been amassed by Angela Bulloch. They are taken from sources as disparate as: parking restrictions, the…

Liam Gillick
2009
£15.00

…redundant utopian elements of the past continue to structure contemporary society and remain impulses within speculations of our post-utopian future. A special edition of All Books is also available here….

Book Works Studio
2021
Forthcoming

…pre- booked to suit your needs and can cater for up to 8 students at a time. The workshops take place at Book Works giving the students the opportunity to…

Vox Populi (Limited Edition, 2012) A special limited edition set of the five books from Fiona Tan’s Vox Populi series presented in a blue cloth slipcase, produced by Book Works…

Chris Newman
1990
Out of print

If Road was Rubber is the first of a series of three books produced, printed and bound by Chris Newman at Book Works, that share something of the same character,…

Bouchra Khalili
2019
£25.00

…× 235mm; designed by A Practice for Everyday Life. Book Works would like to thank Bouchra Khalili and all of the contributors to this book, Phillipe Tancelin for permission to…

Joseph Kosuth
1994
Out of print

…works put in apposition texts by Voltaire and John Locke. The ideas explored in the original installations are expounded in the book through the manipulation of the book format, utilising…

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

…Europa and printed in Book Works’ studio.  Book Works and The Alternative School of Economics would like to thank Robin Christian, Europa, Rob Hadrill and Dinamo Typefaces for their help with this project. Any…

…via the Readers Club and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. Youth Administrator was created for the exhibition Dr Sinclair’s Drawer and co-published by Book Works and…

Brian Catling
1990
Out of print

…conundrums attempt to make concrete an idea. The book is bound in graphite-covered boards that at first glance appear to be solid metal but the book is not a representation…

Slavs and Tatars
2013
Out of print

…by Slavs and Tatars is published by Book Works and Sharjah Art Foundation in association with Raster, Warsaw as part of Book Works’ Co-Series: Book No. 4. Essays commissioned by…

Brian Catling
1990
Out of print

…conundrums attempt to make concrete an idea. The book is bound in graphite-covered boards that at first glance appear to be solid metal but the book is not a representation…

Marianne Keating
2024
£40.00 + VAT

Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that…

‘…This book is a portable museum and one that could provoke a hundred novels…if this is free association, it is of a high order, drawing together mythology, anthropology, modern history,…

Lucy Kimbell
2002
£9.95

‘Some readers will find this book extremely irritating… Some readers will want to know if the methods explored in this book have any relevance as research tools in the field…

edited by Jane Rolo and Camilla Wills
2014
£3.50

…gallery and reading room of the Idea Store library, all the books are now part of the central library system. A set of bookmarks commissioned by the participating artists is…

Susan Hiller’s artist’s book which pays homage to two images of aspiration, fantasy and sublimation: Yves Klein’s Leap Into The Void, and Marcel Duchamp’s Portrait of Dr. R. Dumouchel. Both…

Sophia Al-Maria
2019
Out of print

…are seeds to be gathered, and room in the bag of stars. – Ursula K. Le Guin For me this book is a bag… Like any single-use carrier bag –…

To accompany the publication of the second edition of Susan Hiller’s Auras and Levitations, Book Works has commissioned a new special edition with a print from the Levitations series. Drawn…

Mike Nelson
2003
Out of print

‘… And of course in terms of making spaces that claim to be something they’re not, I just like the idea of a book calling itself a magazine.’ Magazine by…

Cecilia VicuΓ±a
2024
£28.00

…in Chile. Combining poetry, journal entries, documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings, the book was published in Devon, England in an edition of 250 hand-made copies by the artist-led…

Bridget Penney
2015
£9.95

…of one previously published book Honeymoon with Death (Polygon, Edinburgh 1991), which was short-listed for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Published as part of Book…

Sophia Al-Maria
2024
£19.95

…three books: Sad Sack (Book Works, 2019, 2024), Virgin with a Memory (Cornerhouse Publications, 2014), and The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Harper Perennial, 2012) and has written for TV…

Katrina Palmer
2024
£18.00

‘Katrina Palmer’s The Touch Report asks a question that remains in motion for the duration of this extraordinary book. What is here? What’s still here? Here, Palmer writes an account…

Bridget Penney
2008
£9.95

…of  Honeymoon with Death (Polygon, Edinburgh 1991), which was short-listed for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award, and Licorice (Book Works, London 2020). Published as part…

Katrina Palmer
2015
£10.00

…vestiges will act as a memento to the missing body of the book. Portland has been shaped and hollowed out over centuries by convicts and quarrymen to provide stone for…

Kamwangi Njue
2024
£14.00

…artist’s locale, the Jamhuri and Sabaki Neighborhoods of Nairobi, are processed and converted into graphical or drawn sound. In the sound work accompanying the book, these ekphrastic rhythms hum to the sonic backdrop of…

Susan Hiller
1995
Out of print

‘…This book is a portable museum and one that could provoke a hundred novels…if this is free association, it is of a high order, drawing together mythology, anthropology, modern history,…

Avis Newman
1993
Out of print

…these concerns in the form of a book. The printed pages of Supplement play with the possibility of translucence in ways similar to her paintings, while its form as a…

Cornelia Parker
1993
Out of print

…objects not flattened in the book confuses matters further. The book is perhaps best read as a way of seeing objects − and the world − in a new light….

Marcus Coates
2024
£75.00 + VAT

Palestine Sunbird by Marcus Coates is commissioned by Book Works for What did you do… (2024), a poster project to mark 40 years of commissions and book making, made in response to the urgent…

Pavel BΓΌchler
1990
£12.50

Notable Days is a book that attempts − through the turning of the printed page − to reconfigure time and the calendar. Notable Days presents a “full year of days”…

Charlie Prodger
2024
£75.00 + VAT

Free Palestine by Charlie Prodger is commissioned by Book Works for What did you do… (2024), a poster project to mark 40 years of commissions and book making, made in response to…

Stephen Hodge
2012
£12.00

The Master Plan is an artist’s book, authored by Stephen Hodge of Wrights & Sites, as a complementary project to the public art programme commissioned by Situations and Field Art…

Roy Claire Potter
2024
£14.00

…in writing because their work exists. Everyone read this… There’s so much done brilliantly here – food, class, home, mothers, work, sex.’ — Holly Pester, author of The Lodgers ‘Book…

Chris Newman
1993
Out of print

Me is the third and final book in a series produced, printed and bound by Chris Newman at Book Works. The books work as a series of openings, arranged in…

Frances Stark
2003
Out of print

…as well as specially designed pages by Stark, making this anthology a fascinating insight into the artist’s practice. The book includes a foreword by Matthew Higgs. Co-published by Book Works…

Book Works
2024
£10.00 + VAT

What did you do… (2024) is a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing…

Rosalind Nashashibi
2024
£10.00 + VAT

…as part of What did you do… (2024) a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in…

Jonathan Monk
2012
Out of print

This special edition consists of ten posters by Jonathan Monk, originally made for a touring exhibition Again, A Time Machine, commissioned by Book Works and Eastside Projects. The posters were…

A series of promotional books with slipcase. The slipcase has an etched design on the front cover revealing the book inside. The pages of the book are indigo printed and…

Three different editions of books containing cocktail recipes. The books are bound in black hide allowing the covers to be slightly floppy. The outer cover is blind debossed with a…

A special fine binding for a book created for Factum Arte documenting the traditional wall painting patterns from a village of Amir on the Yemeni border. One of the hand…

A one-off presentation box for the annual book awards presented in a specially designed clamshell box containing the winning title. The box is covered in silk with foil blocked design…

A presentation book celebrating the histort of the jewellery brand. The book…

A presentation book containing the history of the jewellery brand. The book is bound in hand marbled calfskin with a foil blocked title. The text pages are digitally printed and…

A specially created visitors book bound in four different coloured bookcloths. To avoid fraying, none of the edges of the bookcloth were left raw….

Printed and bound promotional books for TEFAF sewn in the traditional Japanese style with covered corners at the spine of the book…

A selection of custom-made Visitors books with blank or printed pages. The three different examples shown here are covered in tartan, coloured vellum, and bookcloth….

A short-run presentation book for the owners of the residence in Riyadh. Printed and bound by the Studio incorporating a series of applied panels in different materials combined with gold…

A selection of artists’ books containing various printmaking and collage techniques. The featured arttists include Ellis Nadler, Colin Hall, Adam Pendleton, and Beatriz Milhazes…

A digitally printed photographic book in an edition of 5 copies, covered in a selection of different bookcloths. The cover and spine is foil blocked with the title….

Prototype version of a book that was subsequently published, and features a printed title on all three edges of the pages. The cover has an inlaid print, and foil blocked…

This leather bound artist’s book contains a series of hand printed lithographs by the artist to accompany a series of 10 poems by 10 poets. Book Works designed and letterpress…

…was recreated as a facsimile of the original for Zucker Art Books including the outer case to hold the work. The edition was produced in an edition of 15 sets….

A special hardback edition, printed offset litho with a letterpress printed dust jacket hand-coloured by the artist. Presented in a yellow and white perspex slipcase….

Prototype books created for the architect which includes a slipcase that unfolds to create a stand for the books to rest. The folding slipcase design was based on initial sketches…

An artist’s multiple consisting of five small books, containing the artist’s writings, fitting into a specially constructed wooden case. Each of the letterpress printed books was printed at the Studio…

Archive Items

Katrina Palmer
2014
10 items

…A Prayer Book by Samuel Hasler was published by Book Works in March 2014. Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer. Author of The Dark Object published by Book Works, 2010, she has…

Documentation of the readings to accompany the book launch for O, A Prayer Book by Samuel Hasler. Other speakers included: Katrina Palmer, Francesco Pedraglio and Sarah Tripp. An incantation and…

Book Works
1992
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Invitation produced by Book Works for the exhibition Book Works: A Women’s Perspective that opened on 27 March, 1992. Produced alongside a two day conference of the same name….

An occasional series of online readings, performances and more from Book Works artists and authors in isolation. #2: Stephen Sutcliffe reads from Much Obliged (2019) here https://soundcloud.com/book-works/bw-presents-stephen-sutcliffe-much-obl……

Curated by Book Works
1988
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Invitation to the exhibition Book Works at the V&A that took place at the National Art Library, V&A, London….

Photographic documentation of the exhibition that accompanied the two day conference Book Works: A Woman’s Perspective. The exhibition took place at New Loom House, 101 Back Church Lane, London E1….

Book Works
1995
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Publicity produced by Book Works listing forthcoming publications (1995-6) with cover illustration by David Shrigley. Includes information for After the Freud Museum….

Georgia O'Keeffe
1992
2 leaves (recto)

Correspondence from Georgia O’Keeffe, on behalf of the artists’ collective Guerrilla Girls, to Jane Rolo, Book Works, with further details about the conference Book Works: A Women’s Perspective. Dated 2…

Jane Rolo, Book Works
1992
1 leaf (recto)

Correspondence from Jane Rolo, Book Works, to Georgia O’Keeffe, on behalf of the artists’ collective Guerrilla Girls, with further details about the conference Book Works: A Woman’s Perspective. Dated 16…

1984
6 leave (recto)

Photograph of Book Works at its original site at No.3 Arch, Green Dragon Court, Borough Market, featuring founding directors, Jane Rolo and Pella Erskine-Tulloch. Photographer unconfirmed, circa 1984.

Jane Rolo, Book Works
1991
1 leaf (recto)

First stage of correspondence between Jane Rolo, Book Works, and the artists’ collective Guerrilla Girls. Invitation to participate in the conference Book Works: A Women’s Perspective in March 1992. Dated…

1984
2 leaves (recto)

A press release from Book Works in 1984 announcing upcoming exhibitions, talks and workshops from July to November….

1996
5 leaves (recto)

Several photographs taken of the daily routine at Book Works. Featuring Jane Rolo, Anna Pank, Rob Hadrill and Paul Etienne Lincoln. Photographs by Joëlle Depont.

1984
8 leaves (recto-verso)

Small publication to accompany the installation, The Ruined Book by the artist duo, Langlands & Bell. The installation ran from 12 July – 18 August, 1984….

Susan Taylor
1992
5 leaves (recto)

An article about the Book Works: A Women’s Perspective conference and exhibition, by Susan Taylor. Published in Women’s Art Magazine dated May/June 1992, pp. 8-11….

Curated by Book Works
1988
5 leaves (recto-verso)

Catalogue produced for a presentation of artists’ books at the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London….

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Bookmark produced to accompany the first iteration of the publishing project, Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull that ran across 2016-17. The first group of events…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Bookmark produced to accompany the first iteration of the publishing project, Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull that ran across 2016-17. The first group of events…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Bookmark produced to accompany the first iteration of the publishing project, Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull that ran across 2016-17. The first group of events…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Bookmark produced to accompany the first iteration of the publishing project, Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull that ran across 2016-17. The first group of events…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Bookmark produced to accompany the first iteration of the publishing project, Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull that ran across 2016-17. The first group of events…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Bookmark produced to accompany the first iteration of the publishing project, Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull that ran across 2016-17. The first group of events…

Susan Hiller
1995
23 leaves (recto-verso)

Unbound copy of final version of the publication After the Freud Museum by Susan Hiller (in 10 parts) with a note from the printers (fastened with paperclip, dated 14 December)….

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Bookmark produced to accompany the first iteration of the publishing project, Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull that ran across 2016-17. The first group of events…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Bookmark produced to accompany the first iteration of the publishing project, Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull that ran across 2016-17. The first group of events…

Launched over Freedom Festival 2016, Beyond Words is a Freedom Festival Arts Trust artist commissioning project curated by Book Works. The project began with six newly commissioned publications including books,…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Launched over Freedom Festival 2016, Beyond Words is a Freedom Festival Arts Trust artist commissioning project curated by Book Works. The project began with six newly commissioned publications including books,…

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

…A Poster Project, Jonathan Monk 79.89.09, newspaper by Slavs and Tatars, co-published by Book Woks and Eastside Projects All the Stories, Dora García, co-published by Book Works and Eastside Projects…

Liam Gillick; Book Works
1995
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Book Works for the launch of the publication Erasmus is Late by Liam Gillick. The launch is listed to take place on Wednesday 5 July, 1995 at Book Works, London….

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

Leaflet produced for the fourth part of the touring exhibition Again, A Time Machine at White Columns, New York. Material from Book Works Archive: Invitation card for From the Ruins,…

Liam Gillick; Book Works
1995
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Proof of the invitation card produced by Book Works for the launch of the publication Erasmus is Late by Liam Gillick. The inside text lists the event to take place…

News

…space for the production of artists books. Jane co-founded Book Works with Rob Hadrill, in 1984. The list of artists that Book Works has commissioned and worked with is a…

News/Events
2020

…via TWITTER: https://twitter.com/bookswork INSTAGRAM @bookworksuk and FACEBOOK @BookWorks, or visit our website www.bookworks.org.uk for information on all our publications and projects. If you’d like to support Book Works on a regular basis, please consider…

…Brighton. Her book publications are Honeymoon with Death and Other Stories (Polygon, 1991), Index (Semina No. 1, Book Works, 2008), and Licorice (Interstices No. 1, Book Works, 2020). Her stories and non-fiction have appeared in magazines and online,…

News/Events
2014

…assessment of the drawer’s suspicious character had been entirely correct.’ from The Fabricator’s Tale by Katrina Palmer, Book Works, London 2014 Dr. Sinclair’s Drawer is an exhibition produced by Book…

News/Events
2020

…designers, co-partners, audience, bookshops, libraries, and our local community. CONTACTS: Book Works Studio: 020 7247 2536 or rob@bookworks.org.uk Press and Publicity: 07779251006 or tamar@bookworks.org.uk UK Sales and Distribution: paul@bookworks.org.uk ROW Sales and Distribution: [email protected]

A new eight-week bookbinding class run by the Book Works Studio begins on 9th May and places are still available. Taught by Ina Baumeister, students will have the opportunity to…

…publication with Book Works, The Touch Report. Kamwangi Njue’s Through The Tinnitus is a multi-media book of sound and image which explores spatial and sonic phenomena through psychoacoustics. The images, taken…

Book Fair! Come along and say hello and pick up a book or two. The fair runs Friday 14–Sunday 16 April. More information on the Bergen Art Book Fair website….

The Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual (DABF21), the eleventh edition of Ireland’s only art book fair, opens today at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. Taking place both online and on-site, the…

Friday 15 September Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH Screening 12–7pm Talk/book launch 7–8.30pm Book free tickets Coinciding with the release of artist Deborah-Joyce Holman’s book Queen…

Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London, EC2A 4JB Application deadline: 22 November, 5pm Interviews: 6-12 December, at Book Works or online by arrangement Book Works seeks an experienced new editor…

…in leatherwork, but also other aspects of bookbinding and boxmaking. The rate of pay will be between £27-£32K p.a. Start date is negotiable. Applicants should contact Rob Hadrill at rob@bookworks.org.uk for any…

Friday 6 June, 2025, 3.30pm Belfast Book Festival Crescent Arts Centre 2-4 University Road Belfast, Northern Ireland BT7 1NH Pay what you like. More info/booking. Kathryn Scanlan will appear at…

…with publishers Book Works and The Showroom, the book contains an interview between the artist and editor, and specially-commissioned essays by Melissa Gronlund and Tom Holert, and is designed by…

A new event series exploring the role of designers in creating artists’ books. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form…

Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London, EC2A 4JB (please note this is not a remote role). Book Works seeks a Sales Assistant to work with the Publishing Manager on all…

Auras and Levitations by Susan Hiller is our Book of the Month, with 30% off direct orders for the whole of May 2021. Order it now. Susan Hiller’s artist’s book…

News/Events
2024

…the fourteenth edition of Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF), Ireland’s leading art book fair, taking place at Temple Bar Gallery over ten days. A centre for the artist book, DABF…

…be doing a promotion on a different book every month – sign up to the Book Works newsletter to get notified about the June title (see top right menu). Order Err…

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…

…contact with the Directors of Book Works. If you are interested or would like to know more please contact Gavin Everall at gavin@bookworks.org.uk. If you would like to apply, please…

News/Events
2024

7–8 December, 2024 Open 12–5pm, tickets £2 Phoenix Art Space 11-14 Waterloo Place Brighton BN2 9NB Book Works is happy to be taking part in the inaugural Brighton Art Book…

News/Events
2023

17 June 2023, 11am-7pm Presse Books at FormaHQ 140 Great Dover Street London, SE1 4GW Join us at Presse Books Fair, a free one-day festival bringing together over 30 independent…

Our June 2022 Book of the Month, with 30% off, is Falling Into Place by Heather Peak and Ivan Morison (2009) Continuing their explorations and investigations into cultures of self-sufficiency,…

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…

29–30 June 2024 Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol More info/contact We’ll be back in Bristol for BABE, Bristol Artist’s Book Event, on 29–30 June. The first Bristol Artist’s Book Event was…

News/Events
2024

5–6 October, 2024, 11am–9pm (Sat) 11am–6pm (Sun) Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels Free and open to all, no booking required. Book Works will be in attendance at the Wiels…

bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also…

…life that takes on, in that moment, the significance of a battle. For the launch of this book, Pedraglio has produced four short videos for Book Works’ Instagram account and…

…Penney is a writer based in Brighton. Her previous books are Honeymoon with Death and Other Stories (1991), and Index, published by Book Works (2008, 2nd edition, 2015) as the opening entry in…

…this artists’ book these illusionistic, sexual games are replayed across the blacked or mirrored surface of the pages. Using images, jokes, text, and drawings, the book becomes a hall of…

…pre-booking is essential. If you book and then find yourself unable to attend please cancel your booking as early as possible before the event day so others can get a…

…a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch. If you would like to book please email jan@bookworks.org.uk or call 020…

Our book of the month for November is Friendship of Nations: Polish-Shi’ite Showbiz by Slavs and Tatars (2nd edition, 2017). Previously £25, you can get it for just £17.50 until…

…of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch. If you would like to book please email jan@bookworks.org.uk or call 020 7247 2536….

Two nine week courses in hand bookbinding, on either Monday evening or Wednesday evening. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and…

News/Events

18–21 January kurimanzutto Cuidad de México More info. For its tenth anniversary edition, Book Works will again have our titles on sale at the wonderful Index Art Book Fair in…

…be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch. If you would like to book please email jan@bookworks.org.uk or…

News/Events
2024

30 November–1 December Saturday 11am–5pm, Sunday 10am–4.30pm The Whitworth Art Gallery Oxford Rd, Manchester, M15 6ER Book Works is excited to be participating in Bound Art Book Fair this year…

A nine week Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Course on Wednesdays. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including multi section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese…

A nine week course in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including multi section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese style binding, concertina…

Book Works is running two evening classes, Bookbinding for Beginners and Boxmaking for Beginners. Bookbinding for Beginners is a nine week course on Monday evenings starting on 29th January. Students…

…art book fair + show that will shine a spotlight on over 20 local and international arts publishers and producers of art books, critical arts publications, periodicals, prints, apparel, editions,…

…of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch. If you would like to book please email jan@bookworks.org.uk or call 020 7247 2536….

…of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch. If you would like to book please email jan@bookworks.org.uk or call 020 7247 2536….

Our book of the month for June is in fact a series – three experimental works commissioned by Francesco Pedraglio as part of The Time Machine, a 2012 Book Works…

News/Events
2024

10–11 February Fruitmarket Edinburgh Free Book Works will be back in Edinburgh for the Artists’ Bookmarket, 10-11 February 2024. Artists’ Bookmarket is Edinburgh’s annual celebration of artists’ book culture and…

We are delighted to welcome a new trustee to the Book Works board, Tess Denman-Cleaver. Tess is Senior Programme Manager (Young People & Communities) at New Writing North. She previously…

‘If Pop Art is about liking things, as Andy Warhol said, then folk art is about loving things’ – Jeremy Deller Our April Book of the Month, with 30% off,…

News/Events
2011

A nine week course in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and…

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2011 Book Works is looking for proposals for a new series of quick-fire, rapid-response projects from artist/writer collectives or individual art practices engaged with emerging…

A nine week course in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and…

…8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio. If you would like to book or know more please email jan@bookworks.org.uk or call 020 7247 2506….

…both of which are open to all comers though Part 2 may benefit from some bookbinding experience. If you are interested or would like to know more please email jan@bookworks.org.uk…

…knife throwing, Palmer practised drawing lines, to make a series of works on paper which are also reproduced in this book. Responding to the borders, margins and channels of the…

News/Events
2021

We work with artists, writers and readers to commission new, ambitious and innovative work in the form of artists books through our publishing programme. Giving genuine opportunities to emerging artists…

It may not have been much of a summer so far but that’s all the more reason to pick up a book in our Summer Sale! Whether you’re sunning on…

News/Events
2020

An occasional series of online readings, performances and more from Book Works artists and authors in isolation. #1: Bridget Penney reads from her new novel Licorice (2020) here https://vimeo.com/403278253…

News/Events
2024

…via their Teleportations Substack. However we are simultaneously delighted to welcome Hannah Regel, who joins Book Works as our new editor! Hannah is the author of Oliver Reed (Montez Press,…

22-24 September 2023 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany Book Works is excited to be returning to Berlin in September for Miss Read 2023! We’ll…

News/Events
2020

An occasional series of online readings, performances and more from Book Works artists and authors in isolation in April 2020. #7: Skylark Demonstration by Marcus Coates, here.  #6: In Glanding…

Our Book of the Month with 30% off for September is A Lebanese Archive: from the collection of Diab Alkarssifi by Ania Dabrowska. Now priced at just £18.20 (usually £26)…

Book Works will be in Birmingham for the Duplicate Publishing Fair at Eastside Projects on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th May! Come and browse our new titles and all the…

Susan Morris – de Umbris Idæarum [on the Shadow Cast by our Thoughts], 2021.  This series of twelve books takes the form of a diary recorded over the course of…

The Book Works Winter Sale is back for December 2024! For a limited time we’re offering 50% off all titles published before 2024, with prices starting from just 50p! The…

10 June 2025, 7pm London Review Bookshop 10 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL More info/book Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan (Kick the Latch, The Dominant Animal) acquired a diary at…

Book Works’ archive, presentation and one-night of performances with Simon Fujiwara, Maria Fusco, Stewart Home, Jonathan Monk, Ingo Niermann, Katrina Palmer, Marcus Weisbeck and Niklaus Maak, with Archive Books and…

…writers’ ideas in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve…

…work also takes the form of recorded sound poetry and performative live readings. Other Reflexes is her debut novel, and was commissioned by Book Works from open submission for the Interstices series,…

Book Works – an independent art publisher based in Shoreditch is looking for an Editorial and Marketing Assistant to start work in mid-September 2012. Salary: £15,600 p.a. (Pro rata £26,000)…

News/Events
2023

13-16 July 2023, Thursday to Sunday, 10am-5pm The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dame Street, Dublin 2 We are delighted to have some of our books present at Tsundoku Art Book Fair…

…Professor at NYU, Ahsan will talk through zine cultures and use the critical neologisms of his book Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert(Book Works 2017) to address…

The Book Works Summer Sale is now on. Almost all books (except 2022 releases) are half-price in July! Featuring recent titles from Stuart Brisley,  Helen Cammock, Brian Catling & Iain…

…of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the design in a collaborative process…

…Georgiou’s debut novel is told as five interrelated stories, each connected to one of the senses. It’s the second release in Book Works’s Interstices series, an open submission guest edited…

Book Works is currently seeking a part time financial administrator/bookkeeper to start work in late September/early October 2014. We are looking for someone who has bookkeeping experience to trial balance…

…September 2014. So if you are interested please enquire. There are still spaces available for the Alternative Structures. If you would like to book or know more please email jan@bookworks.org.uk…

Book Works is delighted to announce a new facsimile edition of the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami – an artist book created in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in…

News/Events
2012

Book Works latest catalogue lists forthcoming titles; new, recent and bestselling titles; special editions; and a selected backlist. New announcements include a new guest editor of The Happy Hypocrite, and…

Burley Fisher’s So Mayer selected Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami: an extended facsimile edition as one of their books of 2024, and written a beautiful short review which we’re sharing in full…

…small white monkeys – A day of talks, readings and performances on shame and self-expression, or to book a place please visit the Glasgow Women’s Library booking page here: http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/small-white-monkeys/…

…on a project that takes the form of a small book. This book can comprise fiction, theory, poetry, fragments, drawings, texts, graphic novels, annotated drawings, poems, diagrams, or anything else….

…billboard project by Slavs and Tatars and live readings from All the Stories by Dora García, reappear alongside the third manifestation of Jonathan Monk’s A Poster Project. Book Works’ Archive…

…in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the designer…

News/Events
2011

Book Works will be participating in Dublin Art Book fair, and What we make with words at the CCA Glasgow, in December:…

News/Events
2012

We are looking for someone to join our team as an editor in a brand new post, to start early May 2012. Deadline for applications is 5 March 2012 Interviews…

News/Events
2018

Enjoy up to 50% off frontlist and backlist books available only on our website….

book that describes over sixty experiments for children to do at home using readily available materials. A copy of the book belongs to the artist’s father, a former science teacher….

book provides an elegant coda to an artwork seeking to understand fundamentally unknowable pain by looking closely. Anamorphosis is co-published by Book Works and The Mosaic Rooms. Order it here….

Wednesday 13 December, 1pm Online. Book a free place here. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book….

…Traven T. Croves. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in…

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…

News/Events
2021

…chain issue and due to the global paper shortages we are facing additional delays of twelve weeks+ before the book can go to press. That means that the book is…

…the final form of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the designer in…

…experiencing hearing loss. Conversation presented with live captioning and will have BSL English interpretation. The book will be on sale from the BFI bookshop, or you can order it here….

Wednesday 7 December, 1pm Online, free (RSVP) Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers…

‘Trouser-wearing, French-speaking, home-wrecking Victorian cartoonist Marie Duval appears to have drawn a new comic book – ‘Drawing in Drag…’ But has she? Looking more closely, ‘Drawing in Drag by Marie…

https://vimeo.com/bookworks/battles1 The first of four short films commissioned by Book Works to mark the publication of Francesco Pedraglio’s Battles Vol. 1 (2022). Co-published by Book Works and Parallel // Oaxaca,…

18 October 2023 Online Book your free ticket here. Book Works sees graphic design as central to the production of artist books. Graphic Negotiations is our series of online lunchtime…

…displays of zines and artists’ book collections. Stalls are free but each stall holder will be required to donate a zine or book to OOMK’s Future Library project at Open…

…and wider racial tension. Later this year, Book Works and Focal Point Gallery will publish a book, in partnership with Bluecoat, Liverpool and The Bower, London and designed by Rose…

Saturday 24 February, 2024, 1–5pm Tate Britain Reading Rooms Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG Free but booking required. Book here. Cecilia Vicuña created Saborami in the aftermath of the September 1973…

…describes how I approached the reading of the book as a whole: cover, sleeve, dedication, story, epilogue and further research. Given the explicitly experimental scope of this artist’s book, the…

News/Events
May 2023

…part of the programme at 11.30am in the McAuley Studio, and then signing copies of her book, Practice Makes Perfect at 12.30pm at the Book Works stall (table number 111)….

…August 2012. The Sales and Distribution Assistant will work directly with Paul Sammut, Sales and Distribution Manager, at Book Works and with other members of Book Works team, as needed….

…Coffin Jump (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 14-18NOW, 2018); The Necropolitan Line (Henry Moore Institute, 2015); End Matter (Artangel, BBC Radio 4, Book Works, 2015) ; The Dark Object (Book Works, 2010)….

…through words, images, books, and ephemera, that begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and re-visit alternative futures. Again, A Time Machine is fluid tour, reinventing itself as work…

News/Events
2001

Book Works Projects/Open House 1998-2001 has given curators the opportunity to work in partnership with Book Works to commission, develop and promote innovative new practices. Initiated to encourage an active…

This is an essay commissioned by Book Works in response to Diana Georgiou’s novel, Other Reflexes. We asked five writers and artists to each respond to one of the book’s…

This piece was commissioned by Book Works in response to Diana Georgiou’s novel, Other Reflexes. We asked five writers and artists to each respond to one of the book’s chapters,…

News/Events
2024

This is an essay commissioned by Book Works in response to Diana Georgiou’s novel, Other Reflexes. We asked five writers and artists to each respond to one of the book’s…

News/Events
2018

Auras and Levitations by Susan Hiller is our Book of the Month for May. To mark the occasion we have been looking through the Book Works archives at some of…

News/Events
2023

Thursday 7 December, 3pm and 7pm Fellows’ Drawing Room, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Pay what you can. Book here. The Women’s Art Collection is delighted to present NATIVITY,…

Book Works is delighted to present Queen For A Day, the forthcoming book by Deborah-Joyce Holman, now available to preorder at a reduced price. Queen for a Day is Deborah-Joyce Holman’s…

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…London WC2N 4HE Zabriskie Bookstore Reichenberger Str. 150, 10999 Berlin, Germany and more bookshops listed here: The London Bookshop Map www.londonbookshopmap.org Fairs Book Works participates in prominent book and art…

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…chance on my book Aliasing. Even if I am a writer based outside of the UK, their importance in art book publishing has been well-known to me. Readers of Book…

Artists’ Books Boxmaking Designers’ Books Facsimiles and Film Props Multiples and Printmaking Short-Run and One-Off Books Bookbinding Courses Artists’ Books Boxmaking Designers’ Books Facsimiles and Film Props Multiples and Printmaking…

Boxmaking for Beginners – Evening Class Bookbinding for Beginners – Evening Class Boxmaking for Beginners – Evening Class Bookbinding for Beginners – Evening Class Book Works Studio runs bookbinding and…

Books for students and personal projects can be made to your own requirements, from one-off books to short runs and larger editions. We also specialise in producing menus and Visitors…

https://vimeo.com/468449847 A nine week course in bookbinding taught by Ina Baumeister. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding techniques which can later be applied to their own work….

Presentation books for architecture, photography, fashion and more, can all be produced in the Studio using a wide range of printing and binding methods, and a vast array of different…

Limited edition or one-off artists’ books made in collaboration with the artist or gallery. We can handle every aspect of the work including a flexible approach to design, printing and…

…Adam Pendelton A limited edition of 24 books containing 200 screen printed pages each with a unique cover. Published by Zucker Art Books. Anthology Farshid Moussavi Architects A unique 9…

…realised that making a large scale book including all the lakes was a much harder task. Christian Barnes approached us at Book Works Studio to physically make this giant book…

Douglas Gordon

Each set comprised of seven books, five of which are section sewn and the two others are in a concertina page format. All the books were hand bound in the monoprinted…

Adam Pendelton

Anthology is an artist’s book featuring 200 compositions and a unique cover. Isolated photographs and fragments photocopied from the pages of books in the artist’s personal library are layered with marks, dashes,…