Join us on May 10th for the launch of former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett's new book Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society. Tickets and more details here: buff.ly/43Wjn2F 🌿🌿

Solidarity plug for an interesting event: THE COUNTERCULTURE, SUCCESS OR FAILURE? Come all ye HIPPIES, RAVERS, ACTIVISTS, PSYCHEDELIANS, NEW AGERS, ARTISTS etc to explore and Discuss the SUCCESSES and FAILURES of the COUNTERCULTURE Past, Present and Future, in the USA and UK.

On May 3rd we are excited to be hosting the launch of the new paperback edition of Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass's seminal book Half-Earth Socialism. They will be joined in conversation by food transparency advocate Robbie Lockie. Tickets here: buff.ly/4cTqH2Z

Central London reading group next meets on Thursday 28th April at 7pm at Housmans Bookshop.

We will be discussing Slow Down by 斎藤幸平. (@wnbooks)

All welcome!

Join us April 28th for the launch of Alvina Chamberland's new book, Love the World or Get Killed Trying. This hotly anticipated autofictional work approaches universal issues through a trans woman's lens. Tickets here: buff.ly/49B6YSX

This prize is a great opportunity for unpublished fantasy fiction writers from Black, Asian & minority ethnic backgrounds - £2,500 prize money plus feedback and agent/editor intros.

Deadline is 1st May! Mo Siewcharran Prize

Our new website has a special celebration of all things #LittleRebelsAward , the social justice/radical children’s fiction award we run alongside Housmans Bookshop. Have a peek & a browse & a relish just here: letterboxlibrary.com/little-rebels-…

Glyn Carter reviews Vincent Bevins’s ‘If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution': peacenews.info/node/10927/vin… Headline Books 2/2

Very glad to get our hands on a proof copy of this 💛 by Leah Cowan Leah Cowan - coming June from Verso Books

Exploring the tangled alliances and struggles between British feminism & the police, and the possibilities for abolitionist resistance 📢

Sat 20th April - A day of solidarity for Myanmar!
Join us from 12pm Friends House where we'll hear from trade union organisers and human rights activists from Burma and the UK.
Then head over to The 100 Club from 7pm for a special comedy fundraiser
🎟️linktr.ee/myanmarconfere…

An important message from Gay's the Word

Today we remember the 40th anniversary of the raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop

....and how we fought back!

10th April 1984 - 10th April 2024

youtu.be/YGjLX1RsIUw

Great to return to Housmans Bookshop with #ChangeEverything on Friday May 10. (Beside King's Cross station)

All welcome!
housmans.com/event/book-tal…

Film activists better.

A guide to filming protests on your smartphone – for maximum impact – by one of the most experienced activist filmmakers around: peacenews.info/node/10880/fil…

Come along folks!! Bring your friends, lovers and comrades.

Will be some tickets on the door, but recommend booking ahead to avoid disappointment:

housmans.com/event/book-lau…