THE HISTORY OF SWITCHBOARD An intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. Switchboard was founded at Housmans, and operated out of […]
please note this event is now sold out. To be added to a waiting list please email shop@housmans.com An intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
