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Housmans Bookshop

We are a historic independent, radical bookshop, based in Kings Cross, London since 1959. We specialise in books on feminism, anti-racism, LGBTQIA+ politics, anarchism, socialism, anti-fascism, nonviolence and more! We also stock radical, socially engaged fiction, poetry, children's books and graphic novels.

 

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We Are Here
You're So Amazing!
Grandad's Pride
Is That Your Mama? (PB)
A Hero Like Me
Ajay and the Jaipur Moon
Someone Just Like You
Man-Man and the Tree of Memories
To The Other Side: A powerful story of two refugees searching for safety
Albi the Glowing Cow Boy
A Child Like You
Last Girl In: Kerry-Ann Fights to Stay in the Game
The Piano at the Station
The Final Year
Jamie: A joyful story of friendship, bravery and acceptance
A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set out to Change the World
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
Who's Afraid of Gender?
Martyr!
Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm
Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
The Poverty of Growth
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Non-monogamy
Forbidden Notebook
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The Best of the SF Masterworks
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week
I Who Have Never Known Men
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
Severance
Anarchy In Action
Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
On Anarchism
Anarchism
The Conquest of Bread
Woman, Life, Freedom
Greasepaint
Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer
Memory Piece: Barack Obama's Reading List 2024
Space Crone
LOTE
there are more things: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and Orwell Prize for Fiction
Brainwyrms
Woman on the Edge of Time: The classic feminist dystopian novel
Kindred: The ground-breaking masterpiece
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide
Capital and Ideology
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism
Is Capitalism Broken?
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
The Case for the Green New Deal
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Sister Outsider
A Burst of Light
GIRL: Essays on Black Womanhood
"I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain
Ain't I A Woman?
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
The Work Cure: Critical essays on work and wellness
New Work New Culture: Work we want and a culture that strengthens us
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy
The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction
Useful Work v. Useless Toil
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop
Why You Should be a Trade Unionist
Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres
Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction
The Poverty Of Work: Selling Servant, Slave and Temporary Labor on the Free Marke
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital and Ideology
One Woman's War: Essays Written in War, for Peace
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine
Light in Gaza: Essays for the Future
Rifqa
Palestine
On Palestine
Ten Myths About Israel
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: The International Bestseller
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