Maria Alyokhina and Eric J. Breitenbach of Pussy Riot: live reading, music & discussion

Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
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Maria Alyokhina and Eric J. Breitenbach of Pussy Riot present an evening of live reading, music, and discussion. Masha will read from her new book Political Girl, continuing the story begun in Riot Days, tracing years of activism, arrests, resistance, and survival inside Putin’s Russia. The reading will be accompanied by a live improvised score […]

Housmans Valentine’s Day Special: COURTING DISASTER with Zoë McGee

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Sliding Scale

Fan of a Romantic Period Drama? Can’t stand the stuff? Either way, we’ve got the event for you. Come and deconstruct Romance this Valentine’s Day with Housmans and Zoë McGee We’ll be discussing Zoë’s fabulous new work of Romantic Deconstruction: Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel. What do #MeToo and Jane […]

MAY WE FEED THE KING: Writing Radical Fiction Today with Rebecca Perry & Misha Honcharenko

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Sliding Scale

Perry combines effortless exactitude with canny ambiguity to create a novel that is always as stimulating as it is enchanting. ‘May We Feed the King’ is a rare achievement, I absolutely loved it. Claire-Louise Bennett We are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting writers working in Britain today, Rebecca Perry and Misha Honcharenko, to Housmans for […]

HOUSMANS POETRY SERIES: Joseph Minden launches Answerlands

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Free

We are BUZZING to be keeping off our 2026 Poetry Series with the brilliant Joseph Minden, who’ll be launching is latest collection Answerlands, published late last year by Carcanet. Joining Joseph we have Kat Addis, Joseph Persad, Dolly Rae Star and Verity Spott. This is a free event, but please RSVP below. Also please feel […]

BOOK LAUNCH: Frontierlands by Hazel Sheffield

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

‘Hazel Sheffield’s book is a warming remedy to the creeping nihilism many feel about the places where they live,’ Jen CallejaWe are delighted to welcome Hazel Sheffield to the shop to discuss her inspiring new book about Britain’s abandoned and neglected places and the opportunities they present for communities, and how they can help us […]

SITUATIONISM REVISITED: Creative Anarchy Part 2

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
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For our second session, we will be (re)assessing the historical legacy and ongoing practices of Situationist approaches to creativity, social intervention, and anti-art practices more broadly. This discussion will be kickstarted by a roundtable of artists, researchers and donors to the collection, and then open out into a collective interrogation of the anarchic possibilities of […]

BOOK LAUNCH: The Mixed + Multiracial Guide To Wellbeing with Namalee Bolle

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Join us for a celebratory evening of radical mixed + multiracial discussion! “What aaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeee you?!”If you just had that familiar sinking feeling, this book is for you. Do you point out how alienating and othering that question is? Stand your ground and explain that you don’t have to justify your existence with a pie chart […]

TALK: NO TO NUCLEAR! Linda Pentz Gunter in conversation with Jonathon Porritt

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

‘Linda Pentz Gunter has done a great service in highlighting the nuclear chain reaction and exposing the huge human and environmental costs. We need this book for our environment and a peaceful world’– Jeremy CorbynWe are delighted to welcome Linda Pentz Gunter to Housmans to discuss her new book No To Nuclear. Brilliantly written, clear, […]

BOOK LAUNCH: The Migrant Art of Coping by Sohail Jannesari

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Join us for an evening with Dr Sohail Jannesari as we discuss his groundbreaking new work of non-fiction, The Migrant Art of Coping.Refugees don’t just survive displacement, they build strength, community, and new ways of coping that challenge everything we know about mental health.The Migrant Art of Coping shares stories of refugees navigating harsh borders, restrictive […]

BOOK TALK: Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century: Laurent de Sutter in conversation with Alfie Bown

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Using the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from Aristotle to punk-led attitude, biojewelry, and the historical buildup of authority billed to the triumph of reason in its many intrusive morphs.— Avital Ronell, New York UniversityWe […]

BOOK LAUNCH: The Othered Woman How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women by Shahed Ezaydi

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

‘An urgent, vital contribution to the feminist conversation – one that tears through the comfortable myth of universal sisterhood’ – Alya Mooro, author of The Greater FreedomGrowing up, journalist Shahed Ezaydi was often asked how she could call herself a feminist and still practise her faith. It’s a question that reveals a deeper issue that […]

LONG TAKE SCREENING SERIES: United Voices

Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
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LONG TAKE is a series of three screenings at Four Corners, LUX and MayDay Rooms, which brings together films by the 1930s Workers’ Film & Photo League with contemporary activist films to explore themes of housing, empire and work. A screening of five films on workers’ struggles, from 1935 protests to today’s fights for workers’ […]

BOOK LAUNCH: RADICAL JUSTICE: Building the World We Need with Nani Jansen Reventlow

Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DX

Housmans are delighted to be hosting an event around this essential new book — a stalwart guide to strengthen the movement for freedom and equality for all.Our society is breaking down. Fascists are winning elections, economic inequality is rampant, and the climate crisis is at its tipping point. It feels like the amount of work […]