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My Beloved Other Launch Party With Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson
Gosh!
We're delighted to welcome Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson to the shop to celebrate the launch of their comic, My Beloved Other! The couple will be here on Thursday 5th November 2026 from 7-9pm. We'll also be releasing an exclusive signed mini-print to accompany all copies of the book! Check it out…
PANEL: How Can Socialism Work in the ‘Real’ World?
Housmans
@ Housmans, with Tribune and Verso, are happy to present a pandel discussion feeaturing Oliver Eagleton, Amelia Horgan and Ben Burgis. Housmans and Verso are happy to present a panel discussion to help celebrate the publication The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World by Ben Burgis, Bhaskar Sunkara and Mike Beggs. The panel takes up the books the books central premise: exactly how can socialism work in the real world? What constitutes ‘real’ here? What does it mean for ‘socialism’ to ‘work’ exactly, and whom does it work for? We can be sure all these questions and more will be answered. On our panel we have: Ben Burgis, one of the books authors and a Jacobin columnist. He is also an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument. He’s the author of several books, most recently Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters. Oliver Eagleton, the editor of Tribune magazine and author of The Starmer Project (2022) and the forthcoming The Future Regained (2027). Amelia Horgan, the author of Lost in Work (2021) and Principal Editor at the Common Wealth think tank. Her work has appeared in Tribune, Jacobin, The Guardian and other places. On The Blue Print: Neither capitalism nor central planning, this is the future for socialism. Capitalism isn’t working. But is there a plausible alternative? The Blueprint lays one out: a system where workers control every lever of production, and competitive markets and state planning coexist side by side. Drawing on the history of socialist experiments and the economic debate over planning and markets, The Blueprint confronts the hardest questions about what went wrong in the past—and why it can go right in the future. The result is a socialism worthy of the twenty-first century. ‘It is rare indeed to find a book that so keenly matches the elegance of its arguments with the passion of its politics. Here we have an alternative economic blueprint for our time, a shining antidote to the crude bestiality of a fading and failing Trumpian regime. The aim is to build a socialism of and for the people, a socialism that meets all our reasonable wants needs and desires with the minimum of effort. We can, the authors claim, for the first time in our history, “combine egalitarianism in distribution and democracy in production with the abundance of high-tech modernity.” This is a book to “pry open our imaginations and put the biggest questions of politics back on the table.” Let the counterattack to all that is obnoxious in our present circumstances begin.’ David Harvey, author of The Story of Capital As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available. If you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.
The Hill by Harriet Clark in conversation with Adam Phillips
Burley Fisher Books
Thursday 5 Nov 6:30-9pm Join us for the UK launch of The Hill by Harriet Clark. The author will be in conversation with Adam Phillips. About The Hill: Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children, each dressed as if for celebration. Inside there is a nursery and a cemetery; there are watchful guards and distractable nuns; there are women counting down to release and women like Suzanna's mother, who will never be released. At home, Suzanna is raised by her grandmother, who is entirely unforgiving of her daughter's crime and refuses to visit the prison. Surrounding Suzanna are her grandmother's friends, who know one another from their years in the Communist Party and still spend extended cocktail hours debating the Hitler-Stalin pact. Though these women once insisted on changing the world, they are torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it. Suzanna vows to return to the prison forever but her mother wants her to be free. Harriet Clark's The Hill is an incandescent novel of a child growing up between worlds, the last of three generations whose fates have been tied to punishment. It is the tale of a family broken apart by the desire for change, told with irreverent wisdom and visionary force.
Chess International Master Levy Rozman – through his online incarnation GothamChess- has brought this most cerebral of games to a whole new generation. In his brilliant new book he targets the mid-level player who wishes to improve their mastery. Meet the author when he visits Waterstones Gower Street to sign copies of How to Win at Chess, Next Level.
Lynn Painter in conversation with Laura Wood at French Protestant Church
Waterstones · French Protsetant Church , 8-9 Soho Square , London, W1D 3QD
Seats for the in-person event have now sold out. Livestream tickets available below. Join us for an incredible evening with Lynn Painter in conversation with author Laura Wood as we celebrate the launch of Trust Fall
Outlawed: Harry Hobbs & Stephen Young in conversation with Seb Butcher
Waterstones · Gower Street
Across the world, people are falling for pseudolaw- a fast-growing movement built on conspiracy theories, quasilegal rituals and the promise that ordinary people can outsmart governments, banks and courts. OUTLAWED traces the movement from its 19th-century origins to deadly shootings, attempted coups and bizarre court cases involving doppelgangers, secret trusts and accusations of treason and sorcery.
Callie Hart in conversation at St. James’s Church, London
Waterstones · St. James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL
Join us for an exclusive, one-night-only event with bestselling fantasy author Callie Hart at St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, as we celebrate the release of Quicksilver in paperback.
Join us as we explore the vast and complex history of Gay, Lesbian & Queer life in London and learn how we evolved into the dynamic and diverse LGBTQI+ community that we celebrate today. We take a deeper dive into the historic suffering that living a gay life endured in the past, leading to the death sentences of many. Learn about the pioneering drag queens of the 1700’s who paved the way for others, the life and loves of Oscar Wilde that led to his imprisonment, the emergence of a gay community meeting in the tea rooms of Central London, the birth of Gay Pride in the 70s and the devastating impact AIDS had on our community in the 1980s. No stone is left unturned in this walking tour timeline of dramatic events that takes you from Charing Cross to Soho Square on an exciting journey through the ages. As we head into Soho, we take in the wonderful sights of London and hear about the historic Queer stories surrounding well known landmarks such as Trafalgar Square and Picadilly Circus. Come on this Queer History Walking Tour to understand it's past and celebrate why London is one of the most exciting and openly free societies of the modern age, with the largest demographic of openly LGBTQIA Community in Europe.
Join us as we welcome Zoe Tehrani for a special signing of Zoe Tehrani's Britain, A Walkers Guide: 30 Walks in the Peak District using Public Transportation.
We're delighted to partner up with our friends at Thought Bubble Festival to celebrate the release of this brand new anthology, subCULTURE, curated by the esteemed and award winning comics editor, Shelly Bond! We'll be joined by subCULTURE collaboraters Philip Bond, Shelly Bond, Davidt Dunlop,…
Join Media Revolution and Conway Hall Ethical Society as we host our first Conway Hall News Club. News Clubs make media consumption a conscientious, collective, empowering community activity, where we can discuss and challenge the news we consume - together.
What songs helped you find yourself?Join DJ Jeffrey Hinton and artists Ian Giles and Gray Wielebinski for a special listening session exploring the role of music, club culture and visibility in shaping queer identity and experience.Inspired by Desert Island Discs, Jeffrey, Ian and Gray will each choose songs or artists that have played a part in their lives, from the music that first spoke to them as queer people to unexpected deep cuts and enduring pop icons.Drawing on Jeffrey Hinton’s decades at the heart of London’s queer club culture, alongside Gray Wielebinski and Ian Giles’ artistic practices exploring identity, desire, memory and queer histories, the conversation will move across generations and genres.Conceived by Ian in lieu of a traditional artist talk, the session expands on ideas explored in his exhibition and installation Everyone Involved. Giles will discuss his re-recording of A Gay Song, originally recorded by the band Everyone Involved in 1972 and described as the first gay protest song recorded onto vinyl.Audience members will also be invited to shout-out a song or artist that first spoke to them, creating a collective playlist and conversation about the music that has stayed with us.Your ticket also includes admission to Queer Britain Museum – explore our exhibitions before or after the event. ACCESSQueer Britain Museum has step-free, wheelchair-accessible entry.An accessible, gender-neutral bathroom is available on site.Event timings will be shared here in advance.This event will not include BSL interpretation or live captioning.The event will be photographed for marketing and archive purposes.
PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions
Housmans
@ What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure? Please join us for the launch of Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. This title is less a ‘book’ than it is a radical rethinking of the book-form itself; formulated as a collectively authored, polyphonic work; an intervention into the realms of academic and open-access publishing. The project is grounded in experimentation and the bridging of theory and practice. It works to challenge proprietary software and big-tech dependency, orientating itself towards a future mode of publishing that must address the direct crises of precarity and education. Publishing as Collective Infrastructure challenges the idea of the book as a fixed object and reimagines publishing as a collective, political, and infrastructural practice. Emerging from the ServPub project, this book brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to expose how contemporary publishing is shaped by extractive platforms, proprietary software, unpaid labour, and opaque infrastructures. Against this backdrop, the authors develop and document alternative models grounded in free and open-source tools, collective authorship, feminist care practices, and self-hosted, small-scale infrastructures. Blending theory, documentation, and reflection, the book explores publishing as a full-stack practice: spanning writing, design, software, servers, logistics, and governance. It addresses topics including ambulant servers, wiki-to-print workflows, versioning and forking books, radical referencing, and autonomous publishing, while situating these practices within broader debates on infrastructure, open access, and knowledge politics. Rather than offering a blueprint, Publishing as Collective Infrastructure functions as a living experiment and pedagogical resource. It invites readers to think with – and work through – the infrastructures that make publishing possible, and to imagine how knowledge might be produced and shared otherwise. Bio: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure does not have a single, unified author. Instead, it is a polyphonic work shaped by the shared labor, ideas, and practices of multiple collectives and projects working across experimental publishing, feminist infrastructure, open-source design, and autonomous knowledge production. The book emerges from collaborations involving In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, and Systerserver, with contributions from Constant, Creative Crowds, Hackers & Designers, OBF Experimental Publishing Group, TITiPI, & Varia. Together, these groups contribute situated perspectives, technical practices, and collective forms of authorship that reflect the book’s commitment to publishing as a social, infrastructural, and political process. As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available. If you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.
Parastoo Hashemi explores the chemistry of our brains, and asks whether we might be able to create a simple chemical test to diagnose mental health problems.
**SOLD OUT** Waterstones and Scholastic proudly present Dav Pilkey, #1 Worldwide Bestselling Creator of Dog Man, Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club at ODEON Luxe in Leicester Square, London. Come along and meet creator Dav Pilkey to celebrate the release of Dog Man: A Sprinkle of Time and step into an exclusive DOG MAN experience you won’t find anywhere else!
**New Event Added** Waterstones and Scholastic proudly present Dav Pilkey, #1 Worldwide Bestselling Creator of Dog Man, Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club at ODEON Luxe in Leicester Square, London. Come along and meet creator Dav Pilkey to celebrate the release of Dog Man: A Sprinkle of Time and step into an exclusive DOG MAN experience you won’t find anywhere else!
Ethical Matters: A History of Black People and Alternative Music
Conway Hall
There would be no alternative music without Black artists. Journalist and feminist punk musician Stephanie Phillips reclaims the past and future of rock ’n’ roll for the Black artists who tore up and re-wrote its rules.
Hyperpolitics: Anton Jäger in conversation with James Schneider
Waterstones · Gower Street
What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher's London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how public life has become infused with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency - while the old infrastructure of parties, unions, and civic solidarity has been hollowed out.
