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…the moment I needed it. – Kate Briggs, White Review Books of The Year (2020) Gift Membership: Give a 1 year membership to our Readers Club as a gift and we’ll…

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

Nick Crowe
1999
Out of print

The Citizens is both an on-line project and unique publication that marks a particular moment in the development of the internet. It is a tribute to people’s constant desire to…

Kit Poulson
2018
£12.00

…However, it is not a book, it is constructed from silver plastic and has a line of small knobs and a rudimentary button keyboard. Along one side are a series…

Sophia Al-Maria
2019
Out of print

…Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic.’ Encompassing more than a decade of work, Sad Sack tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the…

Elizabeth Price
2001
£12.95

…ten detailed clauses. One of these required the production of a book: ‘Four Guineas to obtain a small Gold Medal and One Guinea in cash for the boy (not being…

Doug Aitken
2000
Out of print

Diamond Sea is a photographic journey through Diamond Areas One and Two: a highly secure 70,000 square kilometre area along the coastline of the Namibian desert. This area, containing the…

Iphgenia Baal
2017
£9.95

…· Share Benz (11 November 2011 at 8.40am) · Like all these little things – trust me Merced Es Benz is an account of a dysfunctional love affair, narrated via…

edited by Federica Bueti
2013
£8.00

…well as a first-hand account of the role of social media in the current protest movements in Spain, fiction that counteracts the populist-neoliberal and pervasive PRI political party in Mexico,…

Neil Chapman
2004
£5.00

…presented as a fictional account of the emergence of significance from everyday banality and detail. The discussions that arise in this book are specifically aimed at a visual art audience…

Maija Timonen
2015
£9.95

…of dating scenarios. In one of these, speed daters smell T-shirts as the narrator desperately tries to account for an alarming absence of desire. The specificities of love and sex…

Cecilia VicuΓ±a
2024
£28.00

‘An account of political struggle and precarious beauty…today Saborami offers us a delicate, undying vision of collective renewal at a time of desperation, when fury and sorrow might seem the…

…via the Readers Club and 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…

…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…

Graham Parker
2009
£14.95

…globalisation and as part of a historical continuum of deceptions played out through the communications technologies of each age. Taking the form of a heavily (and spuriously) footnoted account of…

…support Book Works via the Readers Club and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was produced on account of the…

Emma Kay
1999
Out of print

…challenges you not just to correct and question, but to doubt your own account of history. How would you balance pre-history against the Black Death, the Bayeux Tapestry or Reagan’s…

Daniel Jewesbury
2001
£7.50

In Of Lives Between Lines Daniel Jewesbury uses the fictional account of an Anglo-Indian woman in John Masters’ 1954 novel, Bhowani Junction as a template to construct his own hybrid…

Jeremy Millar
1995
£6.95

…punctuated with outrageous incidents and, as the narrative progresses, the actions of the narrator become more and more crude. Confessions is an account of the transformation of faux-naïveté and embarrassment…

OOMK
2018
Out of print

…Library Science, 1931, as they do and don’t apply to the collection of contemporary zines, and an account of the stolen library of the late Saudi novelist Abd al-Rahman Munif….

Gad Hollander and Andrew Bick
1998
£9.95

…felt whilst traveling. This feeling is compounded by the addition of blue line drawings super-imposed on each image that operate as a form of ‘punctuation’ and accentuate potential meanings within…

David Shrigley
1999
Out of print

The Human Body is a signed, limited edition screenprint taken from an original line drawing commissioned by Book Works. Turner prize 2013 nominee Shrigley describes his own work as having…

Liam Gillick
2009
£375.00

…wider body of work includes published essays and texts, lectures, curatorial and collaborative projects, all of which inform (and are informed by) his art practice. Gillick’s line of enquiry is…

Dora GarcΓ­a
2013
Out of print

…places will have passed through her lips…’ With the minimum of instructions and a restricted format of four lines, Dora García’s collaborative and participatory project has now collected over 2,500…

CΓ©line Condorelli
2014
Out of print

…Friendship in this sense is both a set-up for working and a dimension of production. The line of thought that threads through the following pages is thus that of friendship…

Gad Hollander & Andrew Bick
1998
£55.00

…whilst travelling. This feeling is compounded by the addition of blue line drawings super-imposed on each image that operate as a form of ‘punctuation’ and accentuate potential meanings within the…

Slavs and Tatars
2009
Out of print

…eponymous section addressing the complexity of languages and identities on the fault line of Eurasia, and Steppe by Steppe, a restoration of the regions seemingly reactionary approaches to romance. Slavs…

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…

Liam Gillick
1995
Out of print

…sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to ‘unfree’…

Deborah-Joyce Holman
2023
£22.00

…with whom Holman wants to act in solidarity. Finding Jason captured by the extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works to reproduce his…

Eva Weinmayr
2005
Out of print

Eva Weinmayr presents a collection of newsstand posters − capitalized handwritten legends that condense complex realities into three or four-line news splashes. Charged with meaning, these headlines give no information;…

Dora GarcΓ­a
2011
Out of print

…all the stories, all men and women, all time and all places will have passed through her lips…’ With the minimum of instructions and a restricted format of four lines,…

…sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to ‘unfree’…

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…

Boxed set of 3 digitally printed books containing pencil drawings printed onto Zerkall mouldmade paper. Each concertina format book is covered in a different shade of grey card with titles…

Various leather bound account books replicating old volumes produced for the film. The books are bound in the traditional spring-back account book style with indexed internal pages and edge colouring….

Archive Items

Liam Gillick; Gillian Gillick
1995
2 leaves (recto)

…one of the illustrations for the publication Erasmus is Late, with a strip of fax paper containing handwritten text from Liam Gillick to Book Works regarding the accompanying credit line….

News

…chapters, each themed around a particular sense, with a text-based work of some kind. In this photo essay, Juliet Jacques responds to the prompt of ‘Visual Pleasures’ with an account

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…

News/Events
2021

…or making a one-off donation.  You can also buy membership for someone else – starting from just £5/month, you can give someone the gift of supporting experimental publishing while building…

Tuesday, 13 December, 7-8.30pm Online, free. RSVP. To mark the publication of Battles, Vol 1 by Francesco Pedraglio, join us online for an evening of readings and discussion with publishers…

News/Events
2004

…the open lecture, there is a visual and aural account of doubt, destruction and fear. Originally staged at the Conway Hall Ethical Centre – London’s centre for Humanist free-thinking –…

…as the slide play collides with the open lecture, it is a visual and aural account of doubt, destruction and fear. Originally staged at the Conway Hall Ethical Centre –…

…officious and uptight. Excellent is by no means relaxed: a dining room appears with chairs that make me sit with a rod straight back. One does not recline into excellence….

…find safety and strength collectively, to effectively hold power to account.’ Featuring: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Aurelia Guo, Emily LaBarge, So Mayer, Yamen Mekdad, Lucy Mercer, Elaine Mitchener, Zarina Muhammad, Rose Nordin,…

…browser tabs, a treatment for an unmade film and a variety of dating scenarios. In one of these, speed daters smell T-shirts as the narrator desperately tries to account for…

Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami: Extended facsimile edition is the Editors’ Choice in the Spring issue of BOMB Magazine, reviewed by Henry Broome. “An account of political struggle and precarious beauty, the…

News/Events
2024

…alongside a brilliant line up of local and international publishers, artist presses and collectives, as well as a free public programme of talks, workshops and parties. We’ll have all our…

…an artist and writer, Palmer’s solo exhibitions are What’s Already Going On (Mead Gallery 2023); Hello (England’s Creative Coast 2021); The Coffin Jump (Yorkshire Sculpture Park 14-18NOW, 2018); The Necropolitan Line (Henry Moore Institute 2015); End Matter (Artangel,…

…of Clarke’s film with whom Holman wants to act in solidarity. Finding Jason captured by the extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works…

…extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works to reproduce his words, rather than his image, placing them as looping samples of script in…

…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)….

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