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Established in 1984, Book Works is a contemporary arts organisation dedicated to making and publishing books. https://bookworks.org.uk

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

03.12.2025 12:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Conversation : The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali w/ Kieran Morris Tuesday 9th December 6-9.30pm Join us to celebrate The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali. Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris. In a surreal and hilarious mix of fiction and autobiography, The Kingdo...

Come and join us to launch The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on 9th December!

Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris (@thefence.bsky.social). Free, all welcome, see you there!

burleyfisherbooks.com/products/con...

19.11.2025 13:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Maamoul Press Cargo

Check out Maamoul Press, small press "at the intersection of comics, printmaking, & book arts. We seek to uplift work from a diverse range of creators from marginalized backgrounds, fostering the arts in those communities through publishing, workshops, exhibitions, & distribution."
maamoulpress.com

19.11.2025 11:14 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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A leading contemporary arts organisation with a unique role as makers and publishers of artists’ books, @bookworks.bsky.social commissions and supports new work by emerging artists, while their London studio also offers book binding and related services. Find them at #smallpublishersfair25

04.10.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And to say once again: Maureen is co-responsible for the existence of both PLR & ALCS, so every writer in the UK & Ireland should give her πŸ’πŸ’πŸ’. And read her books!

15.09.2025 20:41 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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look he's been busy wrestling with the big philosophical issues ok

27.08.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A new show of works by Stuart Brisley (made between the 1960s and now) opens on 11 September at the Lungley Gallery lungleygallery.com/stuart-brisl...

26.08.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Kingdom | Book Works β€œYoel Noorali – along with all the ghost-Yoels who float through these pages – has turned the despair and alienation of modern work into a source of pure pleasure. This is the funniest, knottiest…

β€œThis is the funniest, knottiest, most exhilaratingly jaded debut of the year.”

– Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine & Children of Radium

The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali is available to preorder now: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

20.08.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Kingdom | Book Works β€œYoel Noorali – along with all the ghost-Yoels who float through these pages – has turned the despair and alienation of modern work into a source of pure pleasure. This is the funniest, knottiest…

β€œThis is the funniest, knottiest, most exhilaratingly jaded debut of the year.”

– Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine & Children of Radium

The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali is available to preorder now: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

20.08.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’– (sorry haven't got in the habit of checking here regularly yet but happy belated birthday to an incredible book!)

30.07.2025 13:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We'll be joined by Diana Georgiou for a reading from her book Other Reflexes. Last year we commissioned five writers to each respond to the book with a sensory text work - read them here then pick up a copy of the novel on Saturday!

bookworks.org.uk/publishing/c...

19.06.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're pulling up at the Peckham Pelican this saturday for The Uncorrected Independent Publishers' Fair, with some of our favourite indie presses - 11–6, with readings from 2pm, special offers etc etc – come along! #TUIPF25

19.06.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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London, tonight is the last chance to hear the incredible
Kathryn Scanlan on this UK tour. She's in conversation with the equally brilliant Holly Pester at @Foyles Charing Cross this evening at 7pm.

Tickets here: foyles.co.uk/events/kathr...

12.06.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Black Body Index | Book Works Then there was the sculpture, a large lustrous black stone of alien provenance. Walking around it I realised that the sculpture had been placed so that upon entering one might see only its black…

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader and Taylor and Co. bookstore owner Andrew E. Colarusso’s book Black Body Index, published by @bookworks.bsky.social bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

28.05.2025 12:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another Kathryn Scanlan London event just announced - she'll be in conversation with Holly Pester at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Charing X on 12 June

If you missed out on the LRB event,, come and join us here. Tickets:
www.foyles.co.uk/events/kathr...

27.05.2025 15:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

narrator voice: they did, indeed, go quick. Afraid this is completely sold out now but we're hoping to announce another London event soon

14.05.2025 11:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kathryn Scanlan & Emily LaBarge: Aug 9 – Fog Kathryn Scanlan, author of Kick the Latch, discusses her book Aug 9 – Fog with Emily LaBarge

Kathryn Scanlan and Emily LaBarge on 10 June at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk!

Tickets will go quick for this one we think, get them here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kathryn-sc...

07.05.2025 10:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Please share this Open Call for submissions far n wide. The selected writers will get their first book made by the extraordinary Book Works, edited in collaboration with me. We’ll aim to prioritise writers from low income backgrounds whose work would be hard to place in conventional presses

07.04.2025 09:09 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Mighty! πŸ’ͺ thanks for sharing

03.04.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are excited to announce our new open call series, Satirical Strains, guest-edited by Holly Pester.

We're looking to work with two emerging writers to develop original short books or equivalent. Full details and how to apply here:
bookworks.org.uk/news/new-ope...

03.04.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
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Please take a few minutes to fill in our reader survey, and we'll give you a 30% discount code as a thank you!

We only have 87 followers here but engagement is already better & more thoughtful than X so we'd love to hear from you cherished 87!

tinyurl.com/bookworksurvey

26.02.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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There are a couple of spaces left on the Book Works Studio's Boxmaking for Beginners evening course starting on Monday 3 March. You will learn how to make a clamshell box and a two-part box.

The classes are 6.30–9pm on Mondays, and run for six weeks.

bookworks.org.uk/studio/bookb...

20.02.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Order Property Journal here: bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

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Amy Ching-Yan Lam in conversation with Aurelia Guo for the Spring issue of @tankmagazine.bsky.social, discussing how housing makes and unmakes us, via their books Property Journal (Book Works) and World of Interiors (Divided) πŸ’—

tank.tv/magazine/iss...

19.02.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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On a Painting by Hamishi Farah | Triple Canopy Laughter, seriousness, and a portrait of Joe Chialo, the smiling face of German censorship....

"What has transpired in Gaza is of such epochal monumentality and obliterating significance that it troubles every distinction, every category..."

Tobi Haslett 'On a Painting by Hamishi Farah'

canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/on-...

04.02.2025 22:26 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Book Works half price sale must (or will, at least) end tomorrow, Friday 31st January 2025!

Payday + January + half-price artist books = πŸ˜ƒ

bookworks.org.uk/sale/

30.01.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The two biggest influences on LINDEN ARCHIVES look and feel were…

Photie Man
#TomWood
Steidl, 2005
Design: PΓ‘draig Timoney

Dark Room
#PhyllisChristopher
@bookworks.bsky.social, 2021
Design: Rosen Eveleigh

#photobook #bookdesign #booksky

pariahpress.com/product-page...
@lindenarchives.bsky.social

10.01.2025 12:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our Winter Sale continues – loads of incredible artists' books are currently half-price on our site, with books by artists like Susan Hiller, Prem Sahib, Jeremy Deller, Katrina Palmer, Bouchra Khalili and many many more, with prices from just 50p!

Browse/shop here: bookworks.org.uk/sale/

08.01.2025 17:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0