Housmans Bookshop

Simon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be joining us to discuss Simon’s fascinating new book, THREE REVOLUTIONS: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World. From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana, in January 1959, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dram...

We are very, very, very exited to be welcoming the dazzling provocateur, artist and all-round London legend STEWART HOME back to Housmans to talk about his latest book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness, a dazzling exposé on the violent politics and occultic fascism that underpins much of the history of contemporary yoga. As ever, Stewart Home sh...

Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Laura C. Forster and Joel White to the shop for a dicussion of their wonderful, exhilarting book on the radical potential of friendship! Friendship is full of revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system.  Friends in Common  explores friendship as a radical practice, capable of upending hierarchies and producing social cha...

The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities – and one that has a deeper history than you might think. We are delighted to welcome Professor Dan Hicks back to Housmans to discuss his incredible new book  Every Monument W...

‘It was exciting when it started, then comfortable and domestic, and over time we grew apart. If it had been real, our relationship wouldn’t have made a chapter in a memoir. But Mark was a fictional character, contrived by the British state to violate me and undermine the values I held dearest. And the entire time, EN31 was sitting around the corner, writing it all down, watching our lives unfold....

Alex Bollen  is a Postnatal Practitioner with the National Childbirth Trust and researcher with over 20 years of experiance, in  Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths  she picks apart the pernicious histories of what she refers to as ‘Good Mother Myths.’ These myths are deployed to censure mothers and blame them for society’s problems. Incensed by the way bad science is u...

Squatting in London has a rich and diverse history. Today, squatters live a marginalised, stigmatised and criminalised existence, yet they persist. Behind the glittering façade of shiny new buildings, London is a network of vacant offices, boarded-up shops and dilapidated pubs that host some of the city’s poorest and most determined citizens, exiled and increasingly pushed to the margins. We are v...

From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. We are very excited to be launching  The Psychic Lives of Statues  by Rahul Rao which offers an insightful exploration of these global controversies, demonstrating that beneath their surface lie deeper struggles over race, caste, and the politics of decolo...