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Our Summer Sale is now on, with 50% off most of our books 😲 Shop here: bookworks.org.uk/sale/

Have you see the Shy Radicals film? Story of my life? @shyradicals 23 minutes online streaming hamjaahsan.com/film (Subtitles in Spanish, Italian, Slovenian - if you would like the short film transcript to make more subtitles translations) email me: hamjaahsan@gmail.com To host a screening with Q & A with Hamja Ahsan (or the director Tom Dream) contact us at the email above. Original Soundtrack song by Arlo Parks @arloparks covering Radiohead Creep. Art School Girlfriend also wrote the soundtrack. To stock or buy the book @BooksWork £11.95 also available in Spanish @cajanegraedit Italian and French coming up translation. If you are interested in translating the book let us know. Bengali, Indonesian, Nepali and Arabic would appeal to me.

sally rooney and javier bardem are proof the art/politics thing is pretty easy actually: make whatever work you think is interesting and when given the opportunity be principled and clear in the statements you make from the platform earned through that work

🎄The Book Works Winter Sale is now on! 🎄 🎄50% off a huge range of titles 🎄 🎄bookworks.org.uk/sale/ 🎄

With three days to go until the annual #smallpublishersfair gathering at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, here's a quick link to the 66 artists and publishers who will be taking part over the two days of the Fair (11am-7pm, Fri 24 / Sat 25 October): smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-202…

It's #smallpublishersfair25 in London this Fri/Sat! Here's a quick link to the PDF of the Fair programme, with details of all 66 UK & international publishers, special exhibition, readings & talks: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/wp-content/upl… (Print copies also available at Conway Hall on Fri/Sat)

The most damning condemnations of Israel's war have always come from the Israeli soldiers who actually fought it:

Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Join me! 'Your Protest' Comics Workshop'. 8 Nov at 11.00 Storehouse, Chester. Make you own four-panel comic, protesting for or against something you feel passionate about! storyhouse.com/whats-on/your-…

Can anyone help us get in touch with Wallace Shawn? (it's for a thing)

Help Spread the Word, Boycott the Frankfurt Book Fair: publishersforpalestine.org/2025/08/08/hel…

@badaude from memory would have said it was Ways With Words but couldn't confirm and google says Hay theguardian.com/books/2016/nov…

which literary festival (UK) used to pay writers with a case of wine in the 2010s - need this for a piece on author appearance fees so v grateful for confirmation - pls RT

“This is the funniest, knottiest, most exhilaratingly jaded debut of the year.” – Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine & Children of Radium The Kingdom by @Yoelnoreally is available to preorder now: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/sho…

Safarjal Press: A multidisciplinary exhibition by artists Alaziz Atef with the Palestinian Prisoner Movement and Dirar Kalash of The Sonic Liberation Front. August 7-16, 2025 11am-6pm Tuesday - Saturday Studio 12, Cornerstone Studios | 1 Addington Square, London SE5 7JZ

Join us at GLUE, the ICA’s new artist book fair with 70+ publishers! Featuring exhibitions by Hot Potato & Sana Badri, talks from Verso, Valiz & Montez Press, workshops on bookbinding, zines & more. 🔗 Find out more: rb.gy/mugsdo #GLUE #BookFair #Publishing

The first edition of Stems, a book fair focused on indie and experimental publishing, is this weekend. 19–20 July, 11–6pm Helen Marten Studio, 55 Laburnum St, E2 8BD Programme of talks on Sunday at 6pm curated by Eve Esfandiari-Denney/Thea McLachlan. Free/no booking needed

Our Summer Sale is now on, with 50% off most of our books 😲 Shop here: bookworks.org.uk/sale/

@Albright13901 @HannahRegel @K_Scanlan_ Grace I appreciate your "persion' but no

Excited to be reissuing one of my favourite books in May @BooksWork @K_Scanlan_

The largest and heaviest book in China: the genealogy of the royal house玉牒, Qing Dynasty, 1-meter in thickness, and over 150 kilograms. Collection of First Historical Archives of China.

Good news from Australia and an example of what can be achieved when the art world stands together

Book here: rb.gy/y36j6y