Futures Worth Fighting For: Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 2021
By Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop
Futures Worth Fighting For: Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 2021
By Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop
The Radical Book Fair is Edinburgh’s alternative, independent and entirely bookshop run flea market of books and ideas- over 4 days it showcases the best in radical and progressive publishing and ideas for building a better tomorrow.
Our theme for 2021 was Futures Worth Fighting For! We championed radical politics & imagination, conjuring a more just and beautiful world, and exploring how we bring those visions to life.
The Fair is made up of book stalls, activist stalls, events, workshops and more!
Our 2021's speakers include Aja Barber, Leah Cowan, Akwugo Emejulu, Mara Menzies, Eve Livingston, Jen Deerinwater, Lisa Fannen, 12 Rules for WHAT, Jo Becker, Harry Josephine Giles, and many more covering everything from sustainability to borders, abolition to radical imagination, pleasure politics and more. And you can rewatch it all HERE!
Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist
Hassan Akkad
£18.99 £18.04Opening night: Futures Worth Fighting For Nov 11th, 5.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/futures-worth-fighting-for
Disability Visibility
Alice Wong
£14.99 £14.24Opening night: Futures Worth Fighting For Nov 11th, 5.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/futures-worth-fighting-for
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions
Eve Livingston
£9.99 £9.49Opening night: Futures Worth Fighting For Nov 11th, 5.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/futures-worth-fighting-for
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
Andreas Malm
£10.99 £10.44Opening night: Organising for a World On Fire Nov 11th. 7.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/organising-for-a-planet-on-fire
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
Andreas Malm
£10.99 £10.44
Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020
Kate Charlesworth
£17.99 £17.09Lavender Menace x Kate Charlesworth Friday 12th Nov. 12
This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook
Henry James Garrett
£9.99 £9.49This Event Will Make You Kinder Friday 12th 1pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/this-bookevent-will-make-you-kinder
Blood and Gold: A Journey of Shadows
Mara Menzies and Eri Griffin
£12.99 £12.34Mara Menzies melds myth, magic & history Friday 12th 5.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/blood-and-gold-mara-menzies
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters
Katie Goh
£7.50 £7.12Inklings extravaganza - Women, Hip hop, disaster culture Friday 12th Nov 7.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/inklings-extravaganza-women-hip-hop-disaster-culture
Flip The Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop
Arusa Qureshi
£7.50 £7.12Inklings extravaganza - Women, Hip hop, disaster culture Friday 12th Nov 7.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/inklings-extravaganza-women-hip-hop-disaster-culture
How We Are Translated: a novel
Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
£12.99 £12.34'Beyond Crisis' writing resilience - a Wasafiri writing workshop Sat 13th Nov 10.30am https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/beyond-crisis-writing-resilience-a-wasafiri-writing-workshop
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture
Mark Bould
£12.99 £12.34Climate Collapse and Imaginary Worlds Sat 13th 12.15 https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/climate-collapse-and-imaginary-worlds
Deep Wheel Orcadia
Harry Josephine Giles
£10.99 £10.44Climate Collapse and Imaginary Worlds Sat 13th 12.15 https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/climate-collapse-and-imaginary-worlds
Border Nation: A Story of Migration
Leah Cowan
£9.99 £9.49Beyond Borders: Dismantling the hostile environment Sat 13th Nov 1.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/beyond-borders-dismantling-the-hostile-environment
Asylum For Sale
£26.99 £25.64
Beyond Borders: Dismantling the hostile environment Sat 13th Nov 1.30pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/beyond-borders-dismantling-the-hostile-environment
Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism
Aja Barber
£15.00Consumed: colonialism, climate change & consumerism Sat 13th Nov 6pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/consumed-colonialism-climate-change-and-consumerism-in-fashion-and-beyond
Feminist Solutions for Ending War
£19.99
Feminist Futures Sunday 14th Nov 6pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/feminist-futures
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe
£24.99
Feminist Futures Sunday 14th Nov 6pm https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/feminist-futures
Not Quite Right For Us
Kerry Hudson, Colin Grant, et al.
£11.99Not Quite Right For Us: Friends edition Sunday 14th Nov 7.30pm
The Radical Book Fair has been a staple of Edinburgh's political and literary landscape for 20 years, originally run by Word Power Books, we've hosted writers as varied as Wole Soyinka, Michael Rosen, Stella Dadzie, Paula Akpan, Ann Pettifor, Priyamvada Gopaland Maya Goodfellow.