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Book Works
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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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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!

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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...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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."
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November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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 💐💐💐. And read her books!
September 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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...
August 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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“This 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...
The Kingdom | Book Works
“Yoel 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…
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August 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
bookworks.bsky.social
“This 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...
The Kingdom | Book Works
“Yoel 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…
bookworks.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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The Wastes is 1 YEAR & 1 DAY old. Very proud of it.

Holly Pester: Everyone read this… There’s so much done brilliantly here – food, class, home, mothers, work, sex.
Natalie Olah: Book of the year.
Tim Etchells: RCP’s book is great - really recommended. Sharp, thoughtful, vivid, sad. Funny too tho.
Roy with skin head and sunglasses in pink blazer and black trousers with goofy smile, standing outside Cafe OTO surrounded by folding chairs and tables against a wall. Chalk board to their right reads: ROY CLAIRE POTTER "The Wastes" BOOK LAUNCH FREE ENTRY Doors @ 2PM Cover of Roy Claire Potter's book The Wastes laying on a threshold of a window or sliding door, metal and wood. Cover of book is greyscale and features a picture of actress Vanessa Redgrave smoking in a bath.
July 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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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
June 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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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...
June 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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...
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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…
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May 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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narrator voice: they did, indeed, go quick. Afraid this is completely sold out now but we're hoping to announce another London event soon
May 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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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:
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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
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May 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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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
bookworks.bsky.social Book Works @bookworks.bsky.social · Apr 3
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:
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April 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
bookworks.bsky.social
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...
April 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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!

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February 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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.

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February 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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) 💗

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February 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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"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'

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Laughter, seriousness, and a portrait of Joe Chialo, the smiling face of German censorship....
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February 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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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 = 😃

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January 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The two biggest influences on LINDEN ARCHIVES look and feel were…

Photie Man
#TomWood
Steidl, 2005
Design: Pádraig Timoney

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

#photobook #bookdesign #booksky

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January 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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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/
January 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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We're proud to share Katrina Palmer's powerful speech at the opening of her National Gallery residency show in December.

The Touch Report runs until 2 March 2024 at the National Gallery and the book is out now:

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A graphic of Katrina Palmer's speech at the opening of The Touch Report, the culmination of her year long artist residency at the National Gallery. There are four graphics in total which together contain the speech. Pink text on a black backing over a grey photo of an empty space on the gallery wall where a painting once hung. The first part reads: "This year of my residency coincided with racist riots across the country and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And I’ve spent the year looking at the violences in the gallery’s collection. There’s much else here besides that, and I’ve been struck by the sensational qualities of many, really spellbinding works, but I’m also asking how it’s possible that there are quite so many paintings that depict weapons, torture and domination, yet what’s projected somehow is an air of superiority and refinement." (1/4) A graphic of Katrina Palmer's speech at the opening of The Touch Report, the culmination of her year long artist residency at the National Gallery. There are four graphics in total which together contain the speech. Pink text on a black backing over a grey photo of an empty space on the gallery wall where a painting once hung. Text reads: "In global politics, when there’s so much passivity in the face of the genocidal demographic takeover in Gaza, it seems important to reflect on how the brutal infliction of suffering can be framed in terms of precision, intelligence and skill. I’m conscious of allegory used as a weapon of gendered and class-based oppression and the insidious power of mythology that makes it possible to dream up and instigate violence but to locate it with the exotic – as if it’s something that happens over there." (2/4) A graphic of Katrina Palmer's speech at the opening of The Touch Report, the culmination of her year long artist residency at the National Gallery. There are four graphics in total which together contain the speech. Pink text on a black backing over a greyscsle photo of a close up on some patterned fabric with tears and punctures in it. Text reads: "What can appear to be surface imagery has persistent ideological impact, and with so many of these artworks already embedded in my consciousness I’ve been walking through the galleries on my own, drawn into and caught up with the power and drama of the collection. In one of these paintings a finger is pressed into a hole, in the side of a man’s body. He’s doubting and testing what’s real. There’s a hole in the bookcase as you enter the reading room and I was remembering this idea of the wound as a site of enquiry." (3/4) A graphic of Katrina Palmer's speech at the opening of The Touch Report, the culmination of her year long artist residency at the National Gallery. There are four graphics in total which together contain the speech. Pink text on a black backing over a greyscale photo of a close up on an artwork, processed so that the artwork cannot be made out. Text reads: "In these ways the residency has made me think differently. I see the collection as a useful resource because the artworks don’t hide aggressive fantasies, they depict them, vividly, they hold up a mirror in that sense – to who we really are, to who is celebrated and who is not, and to the lack of humanity that people are capable of. In other words, if ever there was a time for institutions to reflect on how violence is inherent to the western civilising project, it is now." (4/4)
January 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Our next #BOTY from @bookworks.bsky.social is SABOR A MI by Cecilia Vicuña (expanded facsimile edition)

So says: This is really three books in one, an unfolding jack-in-the-box magic that conveys the impish spirit & 3D practice of Vicuña

Buy it now: burleyfisherbooks.com/collections/...
SABORAMI
Author: Cecilia Vicuña Publisher: BookWorks Paperback One of our books of the year 2024! So says: This is really three books in one, an unfolding jack-in-the-box magic that conveys the impish spirit a...
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December 9, 2024 at 5:39 PM