Book Works
Selected by the Bookshop
Book Works is an East London-based art book publisher, dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists, through exhibitions, lectures and workshops, as well as through publishing. Here’s a small selection of their books, covering fiction, art and essays.
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‘This is a story of our life, it’s about how we died and learnt to survive, by taking messages for the dead. What do they call us? Medium. The Medium.’ To read The Medium is to be submerged in a stream of…
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After the death of her mother a woman decides to visit a familiar strip of rural upland, darkly identified on the South Pennines Ordnance Survey map as: The Waste. As she moves between trains, shunted by public encounters and haunted by…
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear – Lao TzuDrawing together communiqués, covert interviews, oral and underground history of introvert struggles (Introfada), here for the first time is a detailed…
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Phyllis Christopher’s fearless and tender photographs fuse lesbian sex and queer protest against the backdrop of a city in flux. Relocating to San Francisco from her hometown Buffalo in the late-1980s, Christopher began to collaborate…
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I made it to the forest-like part of the beach where the eucalyptus and acacia trees could provide enough shade to conduct my first self-taught photography class. My palms were sweating but it wasn’t from the heat. It was from wanting…
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‘Dear Professor ŽižekI write to you from the studio in which I reside. God only knows how long I’ve been here, and all this time with the object, I never made, looking back at me.’Now in a new third edition, with…
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Translated by Clodagh KinsellaA second edition of The Night with a new postface by Michèle Bernstein.‘I am a fraud. Anyone who buys The Night (thank you) and so much as skims it might think that I used to…